CHAP. 190.—An ACT to incorporate the Suffolk Female Institute.
Approved February 25, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Evelina M. Finney, Sally A. Finney, Martha J. Finney, Fan-
nie P. Finney and Mary L. H. Finney, and such other persons
as may be hereafter associated with them, be and they are
hereby created and incorporated and made a body politic and
corporate under the name and style of Suffolk Female Insti-
tute, for the purpose of keeping and conducting a boarding
school of the above name for girls, and of teaching and giving
instruction to such girls or other persons as may be committed
to their care as pupils at said school in all the various studies
and courses of instruction in modern languages, English or
foreign, and in ancient languages, and in music and the fine
arts, and all and any matters or things usually prescribed in
schools and colleges of the highest grade, with the right and
privilege to make and prescribe such rules and regulations as
from time to time may seem fit and proper to them, and to
change or alter the same, to enable them to conduct the daily
and yearly exercises and successfully to govern and generally
to promote and carry out the objects and plans of said insti-
tute or boarding-school for girls.

2. That said institute shall have perpetual succession and a
common seal, which it may alter or amend at its pleasure, and
may in its corporate name sue and be sued, implead and be
impleaded, contract: and be contracted with, purchase, hold
and grant estates, real and personal, for its purposes, and
make regulations for the government of all persons and things
and property under its authority for the management of its
estates and the due and orderly conducting of its affairs: pro-
vided, that said institute shall not at any time acquire and hold
real and personal estate exceeding in value the sum of thirty
thousand dollars.

3. That said institute may have such public or other celebra-
tions at such times and places and in such manner and form as
it may see fit and proper, and may confer and bestow upon. its
pupils or graduates such diplomas or certificates or other evi-
dences of graduation, distinction or proficiency as said pupils
may acquire in their various studies or employments according
to the regulations of said institute and the determination of its
teachers, instructors or other officers, which said diplomas or
certificates shall bear the seal of said institute and its signa-
ture by its principal instructor.

4. That the officers of said institute shall consist of a prin-
cipal instructor and such assistants in the school or academic
departments and in the domestic department as may be deemed
requisite, to be chosen in such manner and form as said corpo-
rators may prescribe.

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