Chap. 216.—An ACT Amending and Re-enacting an Act entitled an Act to
Incorporate the Trustees of Randolph Macon College, passed February
third, eighteen hundred and thirty, and Ratifying the Removal of said
College from Boydton to Ashland.

Approved July 9, 1870.

Whereas, the board of trustees of Randolph Macon college
deeming it necessary for the prosperity and existence of said
institution, that the site of its operations should be changed
from near Boydton, in the county of Mecklenburg, to Ashland,
in the county of Hanover, did, in September, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-eight, change said site to Ashland, at which
place the operations of the college have since been and are
now successfully conducted; and whereas, it is important that
all doubts respecting the validity of said action should be qui-
eted: therefore,

1. Be it.enacted by the general assembly, That the act enti-
tled an act to incorporate the trustees of Randolph Macon
college, passed February third, eighteen hundred and thirty,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 1. That the removal of the aforesaid college is hereby
ratified and confirmed, and that there be and is hereby estab-
lished at Ashland, in the county of Hanover, in this common-
wealth, a seminary of learning for the instruction of youth in
the various branches of science and literature, the useful arts,
agriculture, and the learned and foreign languages.

Ҥ 2. That the said seminary shall be known and called by
the name of Randolph Macon College.

“} 3. That Hezekiah Leigh, John Early, Edward Cannon,
W. A. Smith, William J. Waller, Thomas Crowder, Moses
Brock, James Boyd, William Hammett, Caleb Leech, Mathew
M. Dance, Lewis Skidmore, Augustine Claiborne, Ethelbert
Drake, Henry Filts, John Nutall, James Wyche, Jobn P. Har-
rison, Greenville Penn, Walker Timberlake, John G. Claiborne,
Howell Taylor, James Smith, Joel Blackwell, John Y. Mason,
James Garland, Richard G. Morris, John W. Lewis, William
O. Goode, and Nathaniel Alexander, be and are hereby con-
stituted and appointed trustees of said college, who and their
successors shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name
of The Trustees of Randolph Macon College, who shall have
perpetual succession and a common seal, and by the name
aforesaid, they and their successors shall be capable in law to
possess, purchase, receive, and retain to them and their succes-
sors forever, any lands, tenements, rents, goods, chattels, or in-
terest of any kind whatsoever, which may have already been
given, or may hereafter be given, or by them purchased for
the use of said college, to dispose of the same in any way
whatsoever they shall adjudge most useful to the interests
and legal purposes of the institution, and by the same name,
to sue and implead, be sued and impleaded, answer and be an-
swered, in all courts of law and equity; and under their com-
mon seal, to make and establish from time to time such by-laws,
rules, and ordinances, not contrary to the laws and constitu-
tion of this commonwealth, as shall by them be thought essen-
tial to the good order and governments of professors, masters,
and students ot said college.

“$5. That the said trustees shall elect the president, profes-
sors, and such other officers as they may judge necessary for
the purposes of the institution.

Ҥ6. That the said president and trustees, or any seven of
them, shall have full power and authority to meet at such
times as they shall think necessary, for the examination of any
candidates for literary degrees, and they are hereby autho-
rized and empowered to confer such degrees on such persons
as in their opinion shall merit the same, in as ample a manner
as any Other college of this commonwealth can do; and under
their common seal to grant testimonials thereof, signed by the
president and seven of the trustees at least. The president
and seven trustees shall, at any time, form a quorum for busi-
ness; and should there be at any meeting less than seven,
they shall have the power of adjourning from day to day, or
to any future day, until a quorum shall be had.

Ҥ7. That the said trustees, or a quorum of them, shall an-
nually elect a treasurer for said college, who shall give bond
with approved security, payable to the trustees by their name
aforesaid, and their successors, conditioned faithfully to dis-
charge the duties of his said office, and shall render an account
of all moneys, goods, and chattels, received and expended by
him on account of, and for the use of said college; and on
failure or refusal so to do, shall be subject. to the like proceed-
ings as are prescribed by law, in the case of sheriffs or other
officers charged with the collection of the public revenue fail-
ing to account for and pay into the treasury of this common-
wealth the public taxes collected by them; such proceedings
to be conducted in the name of the trustees in their corporate
and politic character aforesaid.
Ҥ 8. That the said trustees, ora quorum of them, shall have
power to remove or suspend the president or any of the mas-
ters at any time for good cause; and also, two-thirds concur-
ring, to remove any of the trustees for good cause, and to sup-
ply the vacancy occasioned by such removal; and when there
shall be a vacancy occasioned by death, removal, resignation,
or refusal to act, the remaining trustees, or a quorum of them,
shall supply the vacancy. It shall also be lawful for the presi-
dent, (or in case of his death, resignation, or refusal to act,)
the professors and masters for the time being, or a majority of
them, to call a meeting of the trustees, when he or they, as
the case may be, shall deem it expedient. :

Ҥ 9. That the president and trustees of said college, before
they enter upon the discharge of the duties of their office,
shall severally take the following oath or affirmation, to be ad-
ministered by any one duly qualified to administer an oath—
that is to say: ‘I (A. B.) do swear (or affirm, as the case may
be,) that I will, to the best of my skill and judgment, discharge
the duties required of me as a trustee (or president) of Ran-
dolph Macon college, according to the act of incorporation,
without partiality, favor, or affection. So help me God.’

*§ 10. That whenever any trustee shall absent himself from
three successive meetings of the board of trustees, having been
duly notified of such meetings, without assigning a sufficient
reason at the fourth, the trustees of said college, or a quorum
of them, shall have power, by entry on their minutes, to de-
clare his seat vacant, and proceed to the election of a new
trustee to supply such vacancy.

Ҥ 11. That the said trustees and their successors are hereby
authorized, so far as their funds may warrant, to admit gratui-
tously, in whole or in part, as their respective cases may re-
quire, such person or persons as they may think proper.

Ԥ 12. That the trustees of said college shall have power to
establish a department of agriculture in said college: pro-
vided, nevertheless, that no pupil or student in the college afore.
said, shall be required to study or labor in said department in
any manner contrary to the wishes of the person or persons
at whose charge and by whom such student or pupil has been
placed in the institution aforesaid.

““§ 13. That there shall be annual stated meetings of the said
board of trustees, and at such other times as the said board of
trustees may appoint.

“$14. That the said board of trustees shall never be less
than twenty-four nor more than forty in number.

Ҥ 15. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act
are hereby repealed. |

“§ 16. This act shall be in force from its passage.”