Chap. 180.—An ACT to Incorporate Jefferson College.
Approved March 14, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general’ assembly, That there be, and
and is hereby, created and established, in the county of Giles,
in this commonwealth, or in such other portion of southwest
Virginia as a majority of the incorporators hereinafter named
may determine upon, 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,
which shall be called and known by the name of “ Jefferson
College.” |

2. And be it further enacted, That Chapman S. Lucas, Ches-
ter Bullard, Dexter H. Snow, Samuel E. Lybrook, Langhorne
Scruges, John T. Brown, John E. Wingo, Thomas P. Fitz-
patrick, Landon A. Cutter, Madison Pendleton, George S.
Newman, Robert Y. Hurley, Daniel C. Dejarnette, Christopher
T. Browne, Frederick D. Power, Charles McGruder, Wm. F.
Fox, John B. Cary, Henry J. Smoot, John Pirkey, and their
associates, be and they are hereby constituted and appointed
trustees of said college, who, and their successors, shall be a
body politic and corporate by the name of “the trustees of
Jefferson College,” and shall have perpetual succession and ¢
common seal, which seal they may alter at pleasure; and by
the name aforesaid, they and their successors shall be capabl
in Jaw, and shall have full power and authority to acquire, hold
possess, purchase, receive and retain, to them and their suc
cessors forever; any lands, tenements, rents, chattels or interest:
of any kind whatsoever which may be given to them, or be by
them purchased for the use of said college; to transfer, con
vey and dispose of the same in any manner whatsoever they
shall adjudve most usefid to the interests and legal purposes o:
the institution; and by the same name to sue and be sued, tc
plead and be impleaded in all courts of law and equity, tc
select and employ a treasurer and such other officers anc
agents as they may sec proper, to elect and employ such presi
dent, professors, instructors and tutors for the benefit of said
college as they may deem necessary; to make, ordain, establish
and execute, or cause to be exccuted, all such by-laws, rules
and ordinances, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws
of the United States, or of this commonwealth, as they may
think necessary for the welfare of said college, and the good
government of professors, instructors, tutors, students and
agents of the same; and generally to do all acts necessary and
proper to promote the welfare and prosperity of said insti-
tution.

3. And be it further enacted, That the president of the col-
lege, by and with the advice and consent of the trustees, shall
have power, from time to time, to ordain, regulate and estab-
lish the mode and course of instruction and education to be
pursued in said college, and, together with such professors,
instructors and tutors as the corporation may designate, shall
be styled the “faculty of the college,” and shall have power to
adopt and enforce such rules as may be deemed expedient for
the good government of the institution, not inconsistent with
the constitution and laws of the United States or of this com-
monwealth, or with the by-laws or ordinances of the corpora-
tion, which shall remain in force until disapproved of by the
trustees present at any mecting, or a majority of them, and no
longer.

£ And be it further enacted, That the first meeting of the
trustees designated in the second section of this act shall be
held in Richmond, Virginia, on the day of May, eighteen
hundred and seventy-two, or at any time afterwards on a day
agreed on by any threc or more of said trustees, and by them
duly announced by publication in some newspaper published
in the city of Richmond, at which meeting, the said trustees
assembled, if there shall be a quorum present, may proceed to
appoint such officers and transact such business as they shall
judge necessary; but if a quorum be not present, those assem-

led shall have the power of adjournment from day to day, or
to any future day, until a quorum shall be had. After a presi-
dent shall have been elected, he shall preside in all meetings of
the board of trustees when present, but if absent, a president
pro tempore shall be chosen from their own body; but in no
case shall the president be entitled to a vote except in case of
a tie, when he shall give the casting vote. All questions shall
be decided by the concurring vote of a majority of those pre-
sent, except in cases hereinafter provided for.

5. And be it further enacted, That the said president and
trustees, or any seven of them, shall have full power and an-
thority to meet at such times as they may think necessary for
the examination of any candidates for literary degrees; and
they are hereby authorized and empowered to confer such de-
grees on such persons as in their opinion shall merit the same,
i @ Manner as ample as any other college of this common-
wealth can do, and under their common seal to grant testimo-
nials thereof, signed by the president of the board of trustees,
the president and at least one other member of the faculty.
The president and seven trustees shall at any time form a quo-
rum for business, or, in the absence of the president, eight
trustees, one of whom shall be elected president pro tempore ,
and should there not be a quorum present at any meeting,
those present shall have the power of adjourning from day to
day, or to any future day, until a quorum be had.

6. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees, or a
quorum of them, shall elect a treasurer for said college, who
shall give bond, with approved security, payable to the trus-
tees by their name aforesaid, and to their successors, condi-
tioned faithfully to discharge the duties of his 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 to do so shall be subject to
the like proceedings as are prescribed by law in the case of
sheriffs or treasurers failing to account for and pay into the
treasury of this commonwealth the public taxes collected by
them, such proceedings to be conducted in the name of the
trustees in their politic and corporate character aforesaid: pro-
vided, that no appropniation, payment or disbursement, shall
at any time be made by the treasurer but such as shall be im
pursuance of the directions or orders of the trustees.

7. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees, or a
quorum of them, shall have power to remove or suspend the
president, or any of the professors, instructors or tutors, at
any time, two-thirds of such quorum concurring; and also,
two-thirds concurring, to remove any of the trustees for good
cause. And when there shall be a vac aney in sud board, ocea-
sioned 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 any three of the trustees,
or the president or professor for the time being, or a majority
of them, to call a meeting of the trustces w hen: ever they or he,

as the case may be, shall ‘deem it expedient, by g@iving at least
ten days’ notice of said mecting in the inode pre scribed in the
fourth section of this act.

8. And be it further enacted, That whenever any trustee
shall absent himself from three successive annual meetings of the
board of trustees, without assigning a suilicient reason at the
fourth, the trustees of said college, or a quorum of them, shall
have power by entry on their minutes to declare his seat vacant
and proceed to the election of a new trustee to supply such
vacancy.

9. And beit further enacted, That the said trustees and their
successors are hereby authorized, so far as their funds may
warrant, to admit gratuitously, in whole or in part, as their
respective cases may require, such person or persons as they
may think proper.

10. And be it further enacted, That the trustees of said col-
lege shall have power to establish a department of agriculture
and the mechanic arts: provided, nevertheless, that no pupil
or student in the college aforesaid 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 pupil or student has been placed in the institution afore-

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said.

11. And be it further enacted, That there shall be annual
stated meetings of said board, to be held at such time or times
as the said trustees shall at their first meeting, under the au-
thority of this act, appoint; but they shall have power at any
subsequent meeting to alter such day as to them shall seem
expedient, and so on from time to time. It shall be the duty
of the said board of trustees, when thereto required, to make
a general report of the condition of the college to the superin-
tendent and board of public instruction of the state, to be by
them communicated to the general assembly.

12. And be it further enacted, That the said board of trus-
tees shall never be less than twenty nor more than thirty in
number; and the said board may, from time to time, at any
regular meeting, by appoimtment, create additional trustees,
not exceeding in all the greater number specified in this sec-
tion.

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