Chap. 149.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved February 15, 1692,
entitled an act to incorporate the Blackstone female institute.

Approved February 6, 1894,

1. Be it enacted by the general assemnly of Virginia, That an act,
approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, en-
titled “an act to incorporate Blackstone female institute,” be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That J. 8.
Hunter, J. C. Watson, J. A. Hardy, Benjamin Irby, John P. Irby
George P. Adams, Charles B. Hardy, E. Frank Crowe, E. C. MeCul-
loch, Joseph W. Crowder, William H. Cralle, R. W. Maneon, Isam
T. Bagley, hk. FE. Bridgeforth, G. FE. Kennedy, G. E. Barrow, J. W.
Hardaway, G. Trenley Cralle, Lewis D. Hardy, A. C. Ogburn, E. W.
Russell, KE. S. Emory, Thomas Cralle, James E. Clarke, H. W. Nors-
worthy, John P. Whitmore, T. H. Campbell, R. H. Blankenship and
eight others to be hereafter elected under the fourth section of this
act, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby,
constituted a body politic and corporate under the name and sty le
of the Blackstone female institute, to be located at Blackstone, Not-
toway county, Virginia, and by that name shall have perpetual suc-
cession and a common seal, sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded, purchase, receive, hold, sell and dispose of any property,
real and personal, necessary and proper for the use and benefit
of said institute, and under their common seal make and establish
from time to time such rules, regulations and by-laws, not eon-
trary to the laws of Virginia, for the appointment, government
and control of the professors and students thereof, and for the
conduct and maintenance of a female college or school.

2. The corporators above named, and their associates and succes-
sors, shall constitute a board of managers, 1n whom shall be vested,
under the supervision of the conference of the presiding elder’s dis-
trict of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in which this insti-
tute is located, all the powers hereby granted.

3. The board of managers shall have power to elect its own presi-
dent and other officers, and to establish rules, regulations and by-
laws for their government, and to take bonds for the faithful per-
formance of their duties; to locate and erect suitable buildings; to
establish the curriculum of said institute; to fix the requisites for
the degrees to be conferred, and to confer upon any student or stu-
dents they may deem worthy the different scholastic degrees con-
ferred by other colleges, seminaries and institutes of learning, an
to award diplomas.

4. All vacancies now existing, or that may hereafter arise fron
death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by said board, subjec
to the approval of the conference of the presiding elder’s district o
the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in which said institute i
located: provided that at no time shall the board of managers be o
a greater number than thirty-six.

5. The professors, instructors and teachers in said institute ar
hereby constituted conservators of the peace, with all the powers ant
liabilities thereof, during the sessions of said institute and withi:
the grounds of the same.

6. The said corporation shall have the right to borrow money, issu
its bonds, registered or coupon, and secure the same by deed of trus
or mortgage on its property and franchises, and shall have the righ
to sell said bonds for not less than ninety cents in the dollar of th
face value.

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