Chap. 212.—An ACT to Incorporate the Staunton Female Seminary.
Approved July 9, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Hon. A. H. H. Stuart, Col. J. B. Baldwin, Col. Geo. Baylor,
M. P. Funkhouser, J. Witz, G. P. Baker, Prof. EK. Louis Ide,
Rev. J. I. Miller, J. A. Piper, Capt. Geo. Shuey, Robert G.
Bickle, Esq., Maj. A. Koiner, be and they are hereby consti-
tuted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of
The Staunton Female Seminary, and by that name shall have
perpetual succession and 8 common seal, may sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, with power to purchase, receive, and
hold, to them and their successors forever, any lands, tene-
ments, rents, goods, and chattels, of what kind soever, which
may be purchased by, or be devised or given to them for the
use of said seminary, and to lease, sell, rent, or otherwise dis-
pose of the same in such manner as shall seem most conducive to
the interests of said seminary: provided, that the lands, goods,
and cltattels, so authorized to be held, shall not exceed in
amount or value the sum of fifty thousand dollars; and pro-
vided further, that the majority of said trustees, or their suc-
cessors, may at any time hereafter increase the number of
trustees to twenty, and that not less than a majority of trus-
tees for the time being, shall be sufficient to authorize the sale
or mortgage of any real estate belonging to said seminary.

2. The said trustees and their successors shall have power
to appoint a president, treasurer, principal, teachers, and such
other officers as they may deem proper, and to make and es-
tablish from time to time such by-laws, rules, and regulations,
not contrary to the laws of this state or of the United States,
as they may judge to be proper for the good government of
said seminary. A majority of the trustees shall constitute a
board for the transaction of business, and any vacancy or va-
cancies amongst the trustees, occasioned either by death, re-
signation, removal from the state, or other disability, shall be
supplied by appointment of the board.

3. The treasurer shall receive all moneys accruing to said
seminary, or property delivered to his care, and shall pay or
deliver the same to the order of the board. Before entering
upon the discharge of his duties, he shall give bond, with such
security and in such penalty as the board may direct, made
payable to the trustees for the time being by their corporate
name aforesaid, and their successors, conditioned for the faith-
ful performance of his duty, under such rules and regulations
as may be adopted by the board; and it shall be lawful for the
trustees to obtain a judgment for the amount thereof, for any
special delinquency incurred by said treasurer, on motion in
any court of record in this commonwealth, against the said
treasurer or his security or securities, his or their executors or
administrators, upon giving ten days’ notice of such motion.

4. Said board of trustees shall have the power, either by
themselves or their agents, to take and to receive subscriptions,
in shares of one hundred dollars each, to the capital stock of
said corporation, and to enforce payment of the same.

5. Said board of trustees, in connection with the principal
and teachers, shall have power to confer such diplomas and
literary titles as they may think best calculated to promote the
cause of education.

6. The legislature reserves the right to modify or repeal the
charter af pleasure.

7. This act shall be enforced from its passage.