Chap. 93.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act to repeal
an act entitled an act to incorporate the Normal and collegiate institute, and
to provide for the due support of the same, approved March 86, 1882, and
in lieu thereof provide anew for the incorporation of said Normal and col-
Jegiate institute, and for the support of the same, approved May 20, 1887.

Approved January 29, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tions five and six of an act to repeal an act entitled an act to in-
corporate the Normal and collegiate institute, and to provide for the
support of the same, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-two, and in lieu thereof provide anew for the incorporation of
said Normal and collegiate institute and for the support-of the same,
approved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§5. A majority of the members of said board of visitors shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. They shall
appoint a rector of their own body to preside at their meetings in
the absence of the superintendent of public instruction, and a sec-
retary to record, attest and preserve their proceedings, who shall be
a member of their own body, and may receive a nominal salary for
his services, to be fixed by the board. They shall appoint a secre-
tary and treasurer of said institute and prescribe their duties, and
shall fix the amount of their respective bonds at an amount not ex-
ceeding fifteen thousand dollars. The said bonds shall be made
payable to the commonwealth of Virginia and shall have good and
sufficient sureties, conditioned for the proper accounting and paying
over of all moneys and other things committed to their custody,
which bonds being approved by the state board of education and
entered on the journal of the board of visitors, shall be transmitted
to the auditor of public accounts and remain on file in his office.

§6. The powers and duties of said board of visitors shall be as
follows:

(a) To appoint a president of said institute and all professors and
teachers (all of whom shall be colored), and all necessary agents or
employees, and to fix their salaries or compensation, and also those
of the secretary and treasurer of the institute: provided that the
salary of the president shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars per
year, except with the written consent of the board of education.

(b) To prescribe the duties of the president, professors, teachers
(all of whom shall be colored) and all agents or employees of said
institute.
(c) To prescribe the course of study in the several departments
of said institute and to fix the length of the scholastic term, and
the number of terms to be occupied by the course of study in each
department. .

(d) To prescribe the terms upon which students other than state
students shall be admitted, specifying especially the charges for
tuition and board, and toestablish rules and regulations for the dis-
cipline and government of all students admitted to the institute.

(e) To examine into the conduct and management of the school;
the fidelity and efficiency of the officers and emplovees; the methods
of instruction employed; the progress of the students, and to grant
to such as excel in any branch of learning or complete a prescribed
course of study such honorary testimonials, in the way of certifi-
cates of proficiency or diplomas, as shall be deemed expedient.

(f) To inspect annually, and as much oftener as is deemed ne-
cessary, all buildings, lands, appurtenances and other property of
said institute; to provide for the due care and preservation of the
same, and to cause to be made out and kept on file an inventory of
all such property, both real and personal, specifying therein the
value and condition thereof.

(g) To disburse such funds as may belong to the institute upon
the system of warrants and checks prescribed by the board of educa-
tion, and now in use in all the financial transactions of said institute.

(h) To make an annual report through the office of the superin-
tendent of public instruction to the board of education, in conformity
to the requirements of the law providing for reports from state in-
stitutes approved.

(i) To appoint an executive committee, of which the superin-
tendent shall be one, fur the performance of such duties as said
board of visitors may prescribe.

(j) In general to direct and do all things not inconsistent with
the law of this state, which to them shall seem best adapted to ac-
complish the legitimate objects of said institute, all of which several
functions they shall be free to exercise in the form of by-laws, rules,
regulations, orders, instructions, or otherwise, as they may deem
proper.

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