Chap. 202.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 133 of the acts of the
general assembly of 1885-’86, entitled an act to incorporate the Southwest
Virginia institute, approved February 16, 1886, as amended by act approved
January 14, 1892.

Approved February 10, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chap-
ter one hundred and thirty-three of the acts of the general assembly
of eighteen hundred and eighty-five and eighteen hundred and
eighty-six, approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-six, as amended by chapter fifty-three of the acts of the genera]
assembly of eighteen hundred and ninety-one and eighteen hundred
and ninety-two, approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

s 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That J.
R. Harrison, R. B. Boatwright, J. F. Maiden, M. M. Morriss, S. D.
Jones, A. P. Cale, R. C. Williams, B. D. Hawthorne, A. Whiteaker, J.
H. Clarke, J. M. Thomas, N. C. Davenport and J. W. Edmonson,
trustees, and such others as from time to time may be associated
with them, and their successors (and whose successors as such trustees
shall be chosen and appointed as hereinafter provided), be, and they
are hereby, incorporated and made a hody politic by the name and
style of the Southwest Virginia institute, for the purpose of keeping
and conducting a boarding and day school of the above name, and of
teaching and giving instruction to such persons as may be com-
mitted to their charge and care as pupils of the said school in all the
various studies and courses of instruction in English, mathematics,
natural science, elocution, ancient and modern languages, mental
and moral science, history and in music and the fine arts, and in all
other matters and things usually prescribed and taught in schools
and colleges of the highest grade, with the right and privilege to
make and prescribe such rules and regulations and with power to
create such subordinate agencies, executive committee or committees
and boards from time to time as to them may seem proper, and with
power to alter, change, modify or abrogate such rules and regulations
and to abolish such agencies, committees or boards and to do and
perform such other things as may be necessary to enable them to
eonduct the daily and yearly exercises of said school, and success-
fully govern and generally promote the objects, plans and purposes
of said institute.

S 2. The said institute shall have perpetual succession and a com-
mon seal, which it may adopt and alter or amend at its pleasure,
and may in its corporate name sue and be sued, implead or be im-
pleaded, contract or be contracted with, take, hold and grant estates,
renal and personal, for its purposes, and make regulations for the
government of all persons, things and property under its authority
for the management of its estates and the due, orderly conducting of
its atYairs, and shall have the power and authority for its corporate
purposes to take, receive and hold by gift, bequest, devise, convey-
ance and donation, property, real and personal: provided said insti-
tute shall not at any time acquire and hold real and personal estate
exceeding in value five hundred thousand dollars. Said corporation
shall have the power to borrow money and issue its bonds therefor, and
secure the payment of such bonds by mortgages and deeds of trust
upon all and any portion of its property, real or personal, and it
may, as its business may require, sell, lease, convey or encumber the
said property and pass and convey the legal title thereto.

S$ 3. The said institute mav have such public or other celebrations
at such times and places and in such manner and form as it mav deem
proper and fit, andit may confer upon its pupils or graduates de-
grees on such courses of study as from time to time may be pre-
scribed, and such other diplomas or certificates, or evidence of
graduation, distinction or proficiency as said pupils may acquire in
various studies or employments according to the regulations of said
institute and the judgment and determination of its teachers, in-
structors, trustees or other officers, which said diplomas or certifi-
cates shall bear the seal of said institute, and the signatures of the
president, instructors and teachers.

S$ 4. The officers of the institute shall consist of a president and
vice-president and such assistants in the school as may be deemed
requisite, to be chosen in such manner and form as said corporation
may prescribe.

§ 5. Seven trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business.

$6. The term of office of the above-named trustees, and of all
others subsequently appointed, shall expire at the end of one year
next succeeding the passage of this act; and the Baptist general
association of Virginiaare hereby authorized toelect fifteen persons,
who shall constitute the board of trustees of Southwest Virginia
institute; and such trustees, so elected, shall succeed to all the du-
ties, liabilities, rights, powers and privileges to which their prede-
cessors were subject or entitled.

<7. Of the fifteen trustees so elected, five shall serve one year,
ave shall serve two years, five shall serve three years; and annually
after the first year five trnstece shall be elected by said Baptist gen-
eral association of Virginia, whose term of office shall be for three
years, and until their successors shall be appointed; and in case of
a vacancy by death or otherwise occurring in said board of trustees.
the vacancy or vacancies shall be filled from time to time by the
said Baptist general association of Virginia.

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