CHAP. 53.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2, chap-
ter 183, acts of assembly 1885, 1886, entitled an act to incorpora
the Southwest Virginia institute.

Approved January 14, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That sections one and two of chapter one hundred and
thirty-three, acts eighteen hundred and eighty-five and
eighty-six, entitled an act to incorporate the Southwest
Virginia institute, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That J. R. Harrison, R. B. Boatright, J. F. Maiden, M. M.
Morris, Samuel D. Jones, A. P. Cole, R. C. Williams, B. D.
Hawthorne, Alexander Whitaker, John H. Clarke, Joseph
M. Thomas, Noah C. Davenport, and John W. Edmondson,
trustees, and such others as may become associated with
them, be, and they are hereby, incorporated and made a
body politic, by the name and style of the Southwest Vir-
ginia institute, for the purpose of keeping and conducting
a boarding and day-school of the above name, and of
teaching and of giving instruction to such persons as may
be committed to their care as pupils of said school in all
the various studies and courses of instruction in modern
languages, English and French, and in ancient languages,
and in music, and the fine arts, and all other matters or
things usually prescribed in schools and colleges of the
highest grade, with the right and privileges to make and
prescribe such rules and regulations, as from time to time
may seem fit and proper to them, and to change or alter
the same to enable them to conduct the daily and yearly
exercises, and successfully to govern, and generally to
promote the objects and plans of said institute.

§ 2. The said institute shall have the power of perpetual
succession, and a common seal, which it may alter. or
amend at its pleasure, and may in its corporate name
sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, contract and
be contracted with, purchase, hold, and grant estates, real
and personal, for its purposes, and make regulations for
the government of all persons, and things and property
under its authority, for the management of its estates,
and the due and orderly conducting of its affairs: provided
said institute shall not, at any time, acquire and hold real
and personal estate, exceeding in value five hundred
thousand dollars; said corporation shall have power to
borrow money and issue its bonds therefor, and secure the
payment of said bonds by mortgages and deeds of trust,
upon all or any portion of its property, real or personal,
and it may, as its business may require, sell, lease, convey
and encumber said property.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.