Chap. 3.—An ACT to incorporate the Assembly’s home and school at Fredericks-
burg, Virginia.

Approved December 16, 1893.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Rev-
erend W. U. Murkland, D. D., of Baltimore; Reverend J. W. Rose-
hro, D. D., of Petersburg; Reverend R. P. Kerr, D. D.; Judge George
L. Christian and J. N. Cullingworth, of Richmond; Rev. W. S. Lacy,
D. D., of Norfolk; Colonel Charles S. Venable, of University of Vir-
ginia; Reverend Theron H. Rice, of Alexandria; G. C. Heard, of
Washington city; Reverend A. P. Saunders and John L. Marye, of
Fredericksburg, Virginia, and their successors in office, to be ap-
pointed aa hereinafter prescribed, be, and they are hereby, constituted
a body politic and corporate by the name of “the Assembly’s home
and school at Fredericksburg, Virginia,” and by that name shall
have perpetual succession and a common seal; may contract and be
contracted with; sue and be sued, and may purchase, acquire, re-
ceive, hold, possess and enjoy; and may lease, sell, convey, encum-
ber, invest and otherwise manage and dispose of all property, real,
personal and mixed, which may be given to, purchased, or otherwise
acquired by said corporation for the use and benefit of the said As-
sembly’s home and school: provided that the said property so given,
purchased or otherwise acquired shall not, in the amount thereof
held at any one time by said corporation, exceed in marketable
value five hundred thousand dollars.

2. The above-named corporators and their successors in office, to-
gether with the secretaries of the committees of foreign missions
and of domestic missions of “the general assembly of the Presby-
terian church in the United States,” commonly known as the south-
ern Presbyterian church, shall constitute a board of trustees for the
government, conduct and management of the said home and school,
and shall have the power to fill all vacancies occurring in their body
by death, resignation or other disability to act, the persons to fill
such vacancies to be chosen from members in good standing of the
southern Presbyterian churches under the jurisdiction of the said
southern Presbyterian general assembly, and the selection of such per-
sons so chosen to fill said vacancies shall be reported by said board of
trustees to said general assembly for its approval and confirmation.

3. The said board of trustees shall have the power to make and
establish, from time to time, such by-laws, rules and regulations, not
inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state or of the
United States, as they may deem necessary and proper for the gov-
ernment, operation, good order and management of said bome and
school, and they may appoint such officers, teachers and other em-
ployees, and prescribe their compensation and duties, as they shall
deem best for the said institution, and they may require from such
officers such bond or other security, in such penalty as they may pre-
scribe, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties; and
they may remove such officers and teachers whenever in their judg-
ment the welfare of said institution requires it.

4. Five trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
the business of said corporation; and the said board may constitute
an executive committee of not less than three trustees, who may
transact the routine business—matters of said home and school—and
supervise and direct the discharge of their duties by its officers,
teachers and other employees. The meetings of said board and of
said executive committee may be held at such place and time as
they shall respectively appoint.

5. The beneficiaries of said corporation, whose maintenance and
education shall be provided for out of its property and funds, shall
consist of the orphans of deceased Presbyterian ministers and mis-
sionaries, and the said board of trustees may provide, out of said
funds, for the education of the children.of Presbyterian missionaries
who are laboring among the Indians or in foreign lands, upon such
terms and conditions as said board shall prescribe.

6. A report shall be made by the said board of trustees every year
to the said general assembly of the southern Presbyterian church,
setting forth all the property and funds of said corporation; its re-
ceipts and expenditures, in detail, for each year; its officers,
teachers and other employees, and their respective duties and com-
pensation; the number and names of its said beneficiaries, and all
matters showing the condition and methods of conducting said in-
stitution.

7. The said corporation shall have the power to take, receive and
use, for its purposes and objects, above mentioned, the buildings and
grounds at Fredericksburg, Virginia, and the invested funds and
other means held and owned by the “the directors and managers of
the Female orphan asylum” at Fredericksburg, Virginia, whenever
a deed of transfer of same is made and delivered by said last named
corporation.

8. The said corporation shall have the power to receive and use,
for its said purposes and objects, all property given to it by legal
instruments in which the proper legal title of said corporation is not
correctly expressed, where the intention to give such property to said
corporation appears clear in the terms and provisions of said instru-
ments.

9. No tax shall be required to be paid upon this charter of said
corporation nor to be paid upon the property of said corporation
after it is organized.

10. This act shall be in force from and after its passage, and shall
be subject to amendment, alteration and repeal, at the pleasure of
the general assembly.