Chap. 202.—An ACT to incorporate Saint Mary’s Benedictine Institute,
Richmond, Virginia.

Approved March 15, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That H. Bernarda Weidenboerner, Elizabeth Paulus, M.
Philomena McGill, Edith Vogel, and M. Lidwina Westerich,
their associates and successors, are hereby created a body
politic and corporate by the name of Saint Mary’s Benedic-
tine Institute, for the parpose of educating female children
in the city of Richmond, and by that name shall have per-
petual succession and a common seal, and may sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded.

_ 2, The said corporation shall have power and authority to
receive bequests of money, land and other things by gift,

nt, bequest or devise, and to acquire by purchase or
exchange real and personal.estate in the city of Richmond,
for the aforesaid purpose: providing, that it shall at no time
own above one acre of land in the said city, and that the
value of its real estate shall not-be above fifty thousand dol-
lars; and it shall-especially have power to receive from the
trustees of Saint Mary’s German Female Institute, appointed
by a deed dated February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and
fifty-pine, and recorded in the clerk's office of the chancery
court of Richmond, a transfer of the property conveyed in
said deed, to be held by the ‘corporation hereby created,
upon the same trusts set forth in tho said deed, and in every
respect for the same purposes. | °

3. Upon the execution by the said trustees, or their sur-
vivors or successors, of a deed conveying to the corporation
hereby created the aforesaid property, which conveyance
the said trustees are by this act especially empowered to
execute, all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities, title,
and interest of the said trustees in the property conveyed in
trust by the said deed of February eighteenth, eighteen hun-
dred and fifly-nine, from to the said trustees,
shall forthwith vest in the corporation hereby created, and
be enjoyed, done, performed, and assumed by it forever.

4, The said corporation shall have power to adopt such
laws for its government, and for the conduct of the female
school under its charge, as may to it seem meet, and may
not be inconsistent with general laws or the provisions of
this act.

5. This act shall be in force from its passage, and be sub-
ject to amendment, modification, and repeal at the pleasure
of the general assembly.