Chap. 332.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 72, Code of 1887, as amended
by act approved March 29, 1902, in regard to the management of the Virginia
Normal and Industrial Institute, and to conform the same to the Constitution.

Approved November .28, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
seventy-two, Code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended
by act approved March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and two, in re-
gard to the management of the Virginia Noranal and Industrial Insti-
tute, and to conform the same to the Constitution, be amended and re-
enacted so-as to read as follows:

§ 1613. First. The said school shall be known as the Virginia Normal
and Industrial Institute, and shall embrace a normal department and an
industrial department, and also such other departments as may be deemed
expedient and proper. Said institution shall be subject to the govern-
ment and control of a board of visitors, whereof the organization, pow-
ers, and duties shall be as follows:

Second. The Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute shall continue
a body corporate under the name and style of the “Virginia Normal and
Industrial Institute,” and be under the government and control of a
board composed of four qualified persons, and of the superintendent of
public instruction. The present incumbents shall remain in office until
the first of July, nineteen hundred and four. Within six months preced-
ing the day on which the terms of office, respectively, of the several mem-
bers of the board will.expire by limitation as aforesaid, the governor, by
and with the consent of the senate, shall appoint to fill the vacancies so
occasioned, two persons who shall hold office from the first of July, nine-
teen hundred and four, for two vears; and two who shall hold office for
four years from the first of July, nineteen hundred and four; and there-
after within six months preceding the day on which the terms of office.
respectively, of the several members shall expire by limitation, the gov-
ernor, by and with the consent of the senate, shall appoint to fill the va-
cancies so occasioned persons whose terms of office shall be four years
from the day on which the term of their immediate predecessors expires.

Third. The board of visitors shall he a body corporate under the name
and style of the board of visitors of the Virginia Normal and Industrial
Institute, with the right as such to use a common seal. They may plead
and be impleaded in all courts of justice in all cases concerning the in-
stitute which may be subject to legal cognizance and jurisdiction. which
pleas shall not abate by the termination of their office, but shall stand
revived in the name of their successors; and they shall be capable in law
and in trust for the institute of receiving subscriptions and donations,
real and personal, as well from bodics corporate, or persons associated, as
from individuals.

Fourth. A majority of the members of said hoard of visitors shall con-
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business. They shall appoint a
rector of their own body to preside at their meetings. and a secretary to
record, attest. and preserve their proceedings, who may receive a nominal
salary for his services, to be fixed by the board. They shall appoint a
treasurer, and prescribe his duties, and fix the amount of his bond at not
lese than fifteen thousand dollars. ‘I'he said bond shall be made payable
to the Commonwealth ut Virginia, shall Lave good and sufficient sureties
conditioned for the proper accounting and paying over all moneys ane
other things committed to his custody, which bond, entered on the jour
nal of the board: of visitors, shall be transmitted to the auditor of public
accounts, and remain on file in his office.

Fifth. The powers and duties of said board of visitors shall he as fol.
lows—namely :

(a) To appoint a president of said institute, and: all professors, teach.
ers, and all other necessary ayents or employees, and to fix their salaries
or compensations, and also those of the scerctary and treasurer of said
board.

(b) To prescribe the duties of the president, professors, teachers, 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 cach department.

(d) To prescribe the terms upon which students other than State stu-
dents shall be admitted, specifying especially the charges for tuition and
board, and to establish rules and regulations for the discipline and gov.
ernment of all students admitted to said institute.

(e) To examine into the conduct and management of the school, the
fidelity and efficiency of the officers and employees, the methods of in-
struction 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 certificates of proficiency 01
diplomas as shall be deemed expedient.

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

(g) To disburse such funds as may belong to the institute.

(h) To make an annual report, through the office of the superintendent
of public instruction, to the board of education, in conformity to the re
quirements of the law providing for reports from State institutions, ap-
proved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-cight.

(i) To appoint an executive committee for the performance of suck
duties as the said board of visitors may prescribe.

(j) In general, to direct and do all things not inconsistent with the
laws of this State, which to them shall scem best adapted to accomplisk
the legitimate objects of said institute. All of which several function:
they shall be free to exercise in the form of by-laws, rules, resolutions
orders, instructions, or otherwise, as they may deem proper.

Sixth. Said board of visitors shall have power to remove, a majority 0!
all the members thereof concurring, the president, professors, teachers
agents, or employees of said institute.

Seventh. Said board of visitors shall, in all their official acts, conform
to the laws of this State.
Kightb. There shall be admitted into the institute, free of charge for
tuition, use of laboratory or public buildings, and upon such terms as to
board and other expenditures as the board of visitors may prescribe, a
number of colored students equal to twice the number of members of the
house of delegates, to be apportion: «in the same manner. Such stu-
dents shall be designated as State students, and shall not be less than fif-
teen years of age, and shall be elected by the superintendents of schools
for the respective counties and cities from the colored pupils of either
sex attending the free schools, or, in their discretion, from others than
those attending said free schools. Superior proficiency in study and good
moral character shall be duly regarded in the selections.

Ninth. Due notice shall be given by the president of said institute to
the county and city superintendents of schools of all vacancies existing,
or likely to occur, in said institute in the case of State students; where-
upon said county or city superintendents of schools shall proceed to fill
said vacancy, and officially notify the president of said institute of said
appointment. If, in due time after such notice, no appointment be made,
the vacancy indicated may be filled by the board of visitors from the
State at large: provided, that any State student, as a condition precedent
to admission into said institute, shall enter into a written contract with
said board of visitors to engage in teaching school or other educational
work for not less than two years; but said student, by this section, shall
not be deprived of any compensation which he may be able to obtain for
teaching or other educational work. Should any such State student fail
to comply with the contract herein specified, he may be relieved there
from by the payment in cash of one-half of the tuition and other fees re-
mitted to him while he or she was a student of said institute.

Tenth. The general assembly shall make such appropriations annually
out of the revenues of the State for the support and maintenance of said
institute as it shall deem advisable. .

Eleventh. The board of visitors shall have power to designate the bank
or banks in which shall be kept on deposit all moneys accruing to said
institute from the annuity herein provided for, and from all other sources,
and to prescribe the manner in which said moneys shall be disbursed:
provided, the said board shall not designate for the purpose aforesaid any
bank or banks which are not at the time State depositories so designated
by the governor.

Twelfth. The auditor of public accounts shall, on the orders of the
board of visitors, issue his warrants for such amounts of said annuity as
are specified in said orders; said warrants to be made payable to the
cashier of the bank designated by said board of visitors as a depository of
the funds of said institute; said funds to be placed by said cashier to the
credit of the treasurer of said institute.

Thirteenth. Any person may deposit in the treasury of the State, or
bequeath money, stocks, or bonds to be deposited, or grant, devise, or
bequeath property, real or personal, to be sold, and the proceeds so de
posited, which shall be invested as the donor may indicate, or the board of
visitors may see proper, for the benefit of the institute, and in such case
the interest or dividend accruing on such deposits shall be placed to the
-redit of the treasurer of the institute on the order of the board of
‘isitors, to be used for the purpose hereof, unless some particular appro-
»riation shall have been designated by the donor or testator; in which
‘ase such particular use or appropriation shall be respected,

Fourteenth. The board of visitors shall have at least onc stated meet-
ng at the institute in each year. They may have other mectings at such
times as they may appoint, or on the call of the rector or the governor of
the State. Such actual expenses as the visitors may incur in the dis-
charge of their dutics shall be paid out of the funds of the institute.

Fifteenth. The president, professors, and teachers of the Virginia
Normal and Industria] Institute shall be required, during each and every
vear, to conduct a summer normal school for the benefit of the colored
teachers of the public schools of this State, and those who expect to be-
come teachers in the public schools; said summer normal school shall
begin on a day to be designated by the board of visitors, not later than
the first day of July, and to continue for a term of four weeks. In said
summer school shall be taught such branches as relate to the academic
and professional improvement of teachers.

Sixteenth. The annual salary allowed the president, professors, in-
structors, and other employees in said normal and industrial institute
shall be regarded as covering the time during which they are on duty in
said summer normal school: provided, that nothing herein shall be con-
strued to prohibit the hoard of visitors from employing other competent
and skilled normal instructors to assist the regular faculty in conducting
said summer normal school.

Seventeenth. The president of the institute, with the approval of the
board of visitors, may issue circulars, or adopt such other means as may
be deemed expedient to convey to teachers due notice of the time when
said summer normal school shall begin and the course of instruction to
be given. The teachers attending said summer normal school shall re-
ceive such certificate or merit as the authorities of said institute may
prescribe.

Kightcenth. While in attendance upon said summer normal school the
teachers may occupy the institute buildings, and be furnished such ac-
commodations as to board in the like manner as are the regular students
of the institute. They shall be subject to such rules and regulations as to
government and discipline as shall be approved by the board of visitors.
The charge for board and lodging to cach teacher shall not exceed two
dollars per week. All regular employees of said institute shall perform
such service during the summer normal term as the authorities of the in-
stitute may require.

Nineteenth. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed.