CHAP. 150.—An ACT for establishing a Female University at or near
the city of Danville.

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Approved March 3, 1880.

1. Be it enacted, That there shall be established at or near
the city of Danville an university, to be called The Female
University of Virginia; that it shall be under the government
of seven visitors, to be appointed forthwith by the governor,
with the advice and consent of the Senate, notifying thereof
the persons so appointed and prescribing a day for their first
meeting at the said university, with supplemental instructions
for a subsequent meeting in the event of a failure at the time
first appointed.

2. The said visitors, or a majority of them, shall attend and
appoint a rector of their own body to preside at their meetings,
and a secretary to record, attest and preserve their proceed-
ings, and shall proceed to examine and select a suitable loca-
tion for said university at or near the city of Danville, Vir-
ginia, and take such steps as they may deem necessary for the
erection of such buildings as may be necessary.

3. In the said university shall be taught such branches as
the said board of visitors or the general assembly of Virginia
may from time to time prescribe, and shall be so distributed
and under so many professors, not exceeding ten, as the said
visitors shall deem expedient.

4. Each professor shall be allowed the use of the apartments
and accommodations provided for him, and those first em-
ployed shall receive such standing salary as the visitors shall
think proper and sufficient, and their successors such standing
salary as the visitors shall think proper and sufficient, with
such tuition fees from each student as the visitors shall from
time to time allow.

5. The said visitors shall be charged with the erection, pre-
servation and repair of the buildings, the care of the grounds
and appurtenances and of the interests of the Female Uni-
versity of Virginia generally ; they shall have power to appoint
all pecessary agents for said institution, appoint and remove
pyessors, two-thirds of the whole number of visitors voting
Gr the removal; to prescribe their duties and the course of
“ueation in conformity with the law; to establish rules for
ts government and discipiine of the students, not contrary to
the*sawa of the land; to regulate the tuition fees and the rent
of the dormitories occupied; to prescribe and control the
duties and proceedings of all officers, servants und others,
With respect to the buildings, lands, appurtenances and other
property and interests of the said institution; to draw or
receive such moneys as may be donated for this institution ;
and in general to direct and do all matters and things which,
not being inconsistent with the laws of the land, to them shall
seem most expedient for promoting the purposes of the said
institution ; which several functions they shall be free to exer.
cise in the form of by-laws, rules, resolutions, orders, instruc-
tions, or otherwise, as they shall deem proper.

6. They shall have two stated meetings in every year, to-wit :
on the first Mondays of April and October, and ocasional
meetings at such other times as they shall appoint, or on special
call with such notice as themselves shall prescribe by a general
rule; which meetings shall be at the said institution, a ma-
jority of them constituting a quorum for business, and on the
death, resignation of a member, or failure to act for the space
of one year, or on his removal out of the state, or by the gov-
ernor, with the approval of the Senate, the governor, with like
approval, shall appoint a successor.

7. The said rector and visitors shall be a body corporate,

Yunder the style and title of The Rector and Visitors of the

Female University of Virginia, with the right, as such, to use

,&@ common seal; they shall have capacity to plead and be

impleaded in all courts of justice, and in all cases interesting
to the said institution, which may be subjects of legal cogni-
zance and jurisdiction; which pleas shall not abate by the
termination of their office, but shall stand revived in the name
of their successors, and they shall be capable in law and in
trust for the said institution of receiving subscriptions and do-
nations, real and personal, as well from bodies corporate or
persons associated as from private individuals.

8. And the said rector and visitors shall at all times con-
form to such laws as the legislature may from time to time
think proper to enact for their government, and the said insti-
tution shall in all things and at all times be subject to the con-

t trol of the legislature. And the said rector and visitors of said

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institution shall be and they are hereby required to make re-
port annually to the governor of Virginia (to be laid before
the legislature at their next succeeding session), embracing a
full account of the disbursements of the funds of the institu-
tion, of the funds‘on hand, and a general statement of the
condition of the said institution.

9. The said board of visitors, or a majority thereof, by nom-
ination of the board, shall once in every year at least, visit
the said university, enquire into the proceedings and practises
thereat, examine the progress of the students, and give to
those who excel in any branch of science there taught sch
honorary marks and testimonies of approbation as may en-
courage and incite to industry and emulation.

10. This act shall commence and be in force from and after
the passage thereof.