Chap. 358.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 2 of an Act
entitled an Act to incorporate The Southside University, and to
Change its Name.

Approved March 31, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and two of an act entitled an act to incorporate
The Southside University, approved March thirty-first, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-one, be and the same is hereby
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Bo it enacted by the general assembly, That there be
and is hereby established, at or near the county seat of
Mecklenburg county, Virginia, an institution for the instruc-
tion of youth in agriculture and the usctu] arts, in science
and literature, and in such languages as the trustees shall
find to be necessary, and the institution so established shall
be known and designated by the name of the Chase City
College.

§ 2. Be it further enacted, That Professor Tingual Brame,
M. A., George A. Endley, R. C. Nelson, Rev. J. Y. Ashen-
hurst, Rev. Thomas Drew, T. G. Finch, J.J. Boswell, Dr. C.
W. Walker, J. W. Inston, J. J. Ashenburst, J. M. Sloan,
John Trotter, J. C. Nesbitt, Jobn S. R. Burwell, Jobo E.
Boyd, J. A. If. St. Andrew, and such others as they may
hereafter associate with them, be and they are hereby con-
stituted and appointed trustecs of said college, and shall be
and are hereby made a body politic and corporate, by the
name of The Trustees of Chase City College, who shall have
perpetual succession and a common seal; shall be capable in
law to possess, purchase, receive, and hold to them and their
successors forever, any lands, tenements, rents, goods or in-
terests of any kind whatsoever, which may have already
been given or by them muy be purchased for the use of the
said college; and to dispose of them in any way whatsoever
as they shall judge most useful to the interests and ‘legal
purposes of the institution; to sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded, in all the courts of law and equity, and under
their common seal, to make and establish, from time to time,
such by-laws, rules and ordinances, not contrary to the con-
stitution and laws of this state or of the United States, as
shall by them be deemed essential to the good order and
government of the professors, masters and students of this
institution: provided, that the real estate held or owned at
any one time shall not exceed in value the sum of two hun-
dred thousand dollars, nor shall the same be held, used,
leased or sold for any other purpose than to promote the
educational objects of said college, and that not less than ‘a
majority of the said trustees shall be sufficient to authorize
a sale of any real estate belonging to the said college.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 358.—An ACT to amend and re-cnact fifth, sixth, and seventh
sections of an Act entitled an Act to Establish a High School in the
Town of Jeffersonville.

Approved March 31, 15875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections five, six, and seven of an act entitled an act to estab-
lish a High School in the town of Jeffersonville, and to con-
stitute said town, and the county for three miles around the
same, a “sub-school district,” and for other purposes, approved
April second, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amend-
ed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§5. The common council of the town of Jeffersonville, a
majority of the members of said council concurring, may
annually levy and appropriate for the support of said free
school, a tax on all the taxable property within said town,
not exceeding five mills on the dollar. And when such tax
shall have been levied and appropriated, no county or district
tax for public school purposes shall be assessed or levied on
the persons living in said town for the year in which such
levy and appropriation is made: provided, such levy and ap-
propriation shall not be less than the rate of taxation in the
county and district, levied in such year in said county and
district.

§ 6. The said trustees or a majority of them shall choose
annually, by ballot, a board of directors of not less than five
nor more than thirteen members, who shall select their own
officers, including a secretary and treasurer, and shall sclect
and contract with such agents and teachers as may be neces-
sary to carry on said school, and may dismiss such agents
and teachers, when delinquent, inefficient, or in any wise un-
worthy of the position; and may charge and collect tuition
fees for any studies pursued by pupils in said school not em-
braced in the public school course. And the said board ot
directors shall have the general management of the institu-
tion.during their term of office. The superintendent of the
public schools of Tazewell county shall be ex-officio the prez:-
dent of the board of directors.

§ 7. The board of directors shall take bond from the trea-
surer, with good security, payable to the trustees of the
Tazewell High School, in the penalty of three thousand dol-
lars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of
his office. .

2. And be it further enacted, That the state public free
school money to which said sub-district may be annuallv en-
titled, shall be paid to the treasurer of said school by the
treasurer of Tazewell county, on filing with said county trea-
surer a written statement signed by the president of the
board of directors, testifying that a public free school has
been kept in operation for five months during the current
school year, or that arrangements have been made which
will secure the keeping it in operation that length of time:
provided, that in case of the unavoidable discontinuance ot
a school before the expiration of the time required, the board
of education shall be allowed to relax the requirements ot
this section, and to decide the case on its merits.

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