CHAP. 266.—An ACT to incorporate the Normal and Collegiate Insti-
tute, and provide for the support of the same.

Approved March 6, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
he governor of Virginia shall, on or before the first day of
March, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, appoint a commis-
ion of five persons, who shall forthwith proceed to select a
uitable site on the south side of the James river for the estab-
ishment of an institution of learning, to be used exclusively
or the education of colored persons, under and in pursuance
f the conditions and regulations hereinafter prescribed.

2. The said commission shall proceed, as soon as Practica:
le, to select such a site, and report said selection to the board
f education, composed of the governor, attorney-general, and
uperintendent of public instruction, for its approval, so that
he same may be approved and parca’ by said board before
he fifteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.

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3. After purchase of said site by the said board of educa-
tion, the board of visitors hereinatter provided for, sball pro-
ceed at once to construct or repair, upon said site, a suitable
building or buildings on plans admitting of enlargement to
be used for the purposes aforesaid. In the construction or
repair of said building or buildings, the said board of visitors
shall exercise their best discretion, and have full power to act
in the premises, without further authority, so that the sum
of money expended in the purchase of said site, and in the
construction or repair of said building or buildings, and in
fitting up and putting in order the same for opening the school,
shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.

4, The said school shall be known as The Virginia Normal
and Collegiate Institute. It shall be under the government
and control of seven visitors, six of whom shall be well-quali-
fied colored men, who shall be appointed by the governor,
with the consent of the senate: provided that the provisions
of section two of chapter eleven, Code of eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, shall not apply to the visitors appointed
to this institution. The governor shall fix a day for the first
meeting of said visitors, and notify them thereof, and there-
after said visitors shall have two stated meetings in each year
at the institution aforesaid, to-wit: on the first Tuesday in
June and November, and occasional meetings at such other
times as they shall appoint, or on a special call by the chair-
man of said board of visitors, which meetings shall be at the
institute.

5. A majority of the members of the aforesaid board of
visitors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busi-
ness, and on the death or resignation of a member, or failure
to act for one year, or on his removal out of this state, the
board of education of the state, with the consent of the senate,
shall appoint a successor.

6. The said visitors, or so many of them as being a majority,
shall appoint a rector, of their own body, to preside at their
meetings, in the absence of the superintendent of public
instruction, and a secretary to record, attest, and preserve
their proceedings. They shall, annually, examine into the
state of the property, real and personal; shall make and keep
an inventory of the same, specifying every item whereof it
consists; shall make annual report to the board of education,
to be laid before the general assembly, with such suggestions
or recommendations as, in their judgment, would be pro-
motive of the objects of the institute. In said report they
shall also embrace a full account of all disbursements, al]
funds on hand, and a general statement of the condition o!
said institute.

7. In the said institute there shall be a normal department
in which shall be taught such branches as are usually taught
in the best normal schools in the country; said branches tc
be prescribed by the visitors to said institute: provided tha
such normal course of instruction shall not be longer thay
three years.
8. There shall be connected with said institute, a college,
and such professional departments as the board of visitors
may think expedient and proper, for the higher education of
colored persons. In the college department shall be taught
the classics, the higher biwnehes of mathematics, and such
other branches as are usually taught in colleges, which
branches shall be prescribed by the board of visitors to said
institute.

9. The superintendent of public instruction for this state
shall be a member of said board of visitors, and ex-officio
chairman. The said visitors shall be charged with the repair
of the buildings, and care of the grounds and appurtenances,
and with the interest of the schools generally. They shall
appoint and remove professors and other necessary agents,
two-thirds of the whole number voting for appointment or
removal; shall prescribe their duties in conformity with the
law; shall establish rules for the government and discipline
of students, not contrary to the laws of this state; shall regu-
late tuition fees; shall prescribe the duties and control the
proceedings of all officers and employees, with respect to build-
ings, lands, appurtenances, and other property and interests
of the institute; shall draw such money as may be appro-
priated, or otherwise contributed for the support of the same,
and disburse it through their chosen disbursing agent; and,
in general, shall direct and do all things which, not being
inconsistent with the laws of this state, shall to them seem
most promotive of the purposes of said institute, which seve-
ral functions they shall be free to exercise in the form of
by-laws, rules, resolutions, orders, instructions, or otherwise,
as they shall deem proper.

10. The said superintendent of public instruction, and the
visitors of said school shall be a body corporate, under the
name and style of the board of visitors of the Virginia nor-
mal and collegiate institute, with the right as such to use a
common seal. They may plead and be impleaded in all courts
of justice in all cases concerning the institute, which may be
subject of legal cognizance 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
capa tle in law and in trust, for the institute, of receiving
subscriptions and donations, real and personal, as well from
bodies corporate, or persons associated, as from individuals.

11. The said visitors shall, at all times, conform to such
laws as the legislature may, from time to time, think proper
to enact for their government; and the said institute shall,
in all things, and at all times, be subject to the control of the
legislature. The visitors above provided for shall be ap-
pointed on or before the first day of April, eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, and every fourth year thereafter.

12. The number of professors or teachers in the Institute,
all of whom shall be colored, shall be fixed by the Visitors ;
the salary of no one of them shall exceed the sum of fifteen
hundred dollars per annum, except by consent of the said
board of education, given in writing to the visitors.
13. The board of visitors shall designate one of their num-
ber to be treasurer, and shall fix the amount of his bond at
not less than fifteen thousand dollars. Thesaid bond shall
be made payable to the commonwealth of Virginia, shall
have good and sufficient sureties, conditioned for the proper
accounting and paying over of all money and other things
committed to his custody, which bond being approved by the
state board of education, and entered on the journal of the
board of visitors, shall be transmitted to the auditor of public
accounts, and remain on file in his office. The pay of the
treasurer shall in no case exceed one hundred and fifty dollars
a year for the first three years.

14. The board of visitors shall prescribe the terms upon
which students, other than state students, may be admitted;
the nature of their services and the duration thereof, which
shall not be Jess, in any case, than two years, and in the case
of state students, more than four years. They shall admit as
state students, free of charge, for tuition, as soon as practi-
cable, upon evidence of good moral character, fifty young
men, who shall be not less than sixteen nor more than twenty-
five years of age, one of whom shall be selected from each
senatorial district, and ten from the state at large, all to be
chosen by the board of visitors; and when a vacancy has
occurred, or is likely to occur, due notice of the time and
place of making the appointment shall be given by the sec-
retary of the board of visitors. If, after such notice, no
suitable person shall apply from any district, the vacancy
may be supplied from the state at large: provided that the
students so admitted free of charge shall first enter intoa
written contract and agreement with the board of visitors to
teach or engage in educational work for two years. This
shall apply only to state students, and should any student
fail to fill the terms of his contract, he may be relieved from
the same by the payment of one-half of his tuition fee while
at the institute.

15. And be it enacted, That out of the funds due the com-
monwealth of Virginia from the sale of the Atlantic, Missis-
sippi and Ohio railroad, as ratified and confirmed by senate
bill number fifty-six, of session eighteen hundred and eighty-
one—two, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be
retained by the treasurer of the commonwealth to the credit
of the state board of education, to be paid out by said treas-
urer, on the orders or warrants of said board of visitors, in
the execution of this act; and within six months after the
board of visitors shall have declared the institution ready to
receive students, and annually thereafter, there shall be paid
by the auditor of public accounts, on the order of the said
state board of education, to the treasurer elected by the
board of visitors, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, as
annuities to the other state institutions of learning are now

aid.

16. The board of visitors shall examine into progress of
students in each year, and shall give to those who excel in
any branch of learning such honorary testimonials of appro-
bation as they may deem proper. Such reasonable expenses
as the visitors may incur in the discharge of their duties
shall be paid out of the funds of the institute: provided the
sum paid to any one visitor in any one year shall not exceed
fifty dollars.

17. Any person may deposit in the treasury of the state,
or bequeath money, stocks, or bonds to be deposited, or

rant, devise, or bequeath property, real or personal, to be

sold, and the proceeds so deposited, which shall be invested
as the donor may indicate, or the board of visitors may see
proper, for the benefit of the institute; and in such case the
interest or dividend accruirg on such deposits shall be paid
to the treasurer of the institute, on tbe order of the state
board of education, to be used for the purpose thereof, unless
some particular appropriation shall have been designated by
the donor or testator, in which case such particular use or
appropriation shall be respected.

18. This act sball be in force from its passage.

CHAP. 266.—An ACT to incorporate the Normal and Collegiate Insti-
tute, and provide for the support of the same.

Approved March 6, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
he governor of Virginia shall, on or before the first day of
March, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, appoint a commis-
ion of five persons, who shall forthwith proceed to select a
uitable site on the south side of the James river for the estab-
ishment of an institution of learning, to be used exclusively
or the education of colored persons, under and in pursuance
f the conditions and regulations hereinafter prescribed.

2. The said commission shall proceed, as soon as Practica:
le, to select such a site, and report said selection to the board
f education, composed of the governor, attorney-general, and
uperintendent of public instruction, for its approval, so that
he same may be approved and parca’ by said board before
he fifteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.

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3. After purchase of said site by the said board of educa-
tion, the board of visitors hereinatter provided for, sball pro-
ceed at once to construct or repair, upon said site, a suitable
building or buildings on plans admitting of enlargement to
be used for the purposes aforesaid. In the construction or
repair of said building or buildings, the said board of visitors
shall exercise their best discretion, and have full power to act
in the premises, without further authority, so that the sum
of money expended in the purchase of said site, and in the
construction or repair of said building or buildings, and in
fitting up and putting in order the same for opening the school,
shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.

4, The said school shall be known as The Virginia Normal
and Collegiate Institute. It shall be under the government
and control of seven visitors, six of whom shall be well-quali-
fied colored men, who shall be appointed by the governor,
with the consent of the senate: provided that the provisions
of section two of chapter eleven, Code of eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, shall not apply to the visitors appointed
to this institution. The governor shall fix a day for the first
meeting of said visitors, and notify them thereof, and there-
after said visitors shall have two stated meetings in each year
at the institution aforesaid, to-wit: on the first Tuesday in
June and November, and occasional meetings at such other
times as they shall appoint, or on a special call by the chair-
man of said board of visitors, which meetings shall be at the
institute.

5. A majority of the members of the aforesaid board of
visitors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busi-
ness, and on the death or resignation of a member, or failure
to act for one year, or on his removal out of this state, the
board of education of the state, with the consent of the senate,
shall appoint a successor.

6. The said visitors, or so many of them as being a majority,
shall appoint a rector, of their own body, to preside at their
meetings, in the absence of the superintendent of public
instruction, and a secretary to record, attest, and preserve
their proceedings. They shall, annually, examine into the
state of the property, real and personal; shall make and keep
an inventory of the same, specifying every item whereof it
consists; shall make annual report to the board of education,
to be laid before the general assembly, with such suggestions
or recommendations as, in their judgment, would be pro-
motive of the objects of the institute. In said report they
shall also embrace a full account of all disbursements, al]
funds on hand, and a general statement of the condition o!
said institute.

7. In the said institute there shall be a normal department
in which shall be taught such branches as are usually taught
in the best normal schools in the country; said branches tc
be prescribed by the visitors to said institute: provided tha
such normal course of instruction shall not be longer thay
three years.
8. There shall be connected with said institute, a college,
and such professional departments as the board of visitors
may think expedient and proper, for the higher education of
colored persons. In the college department shall be taught
the classics, the higher biwnehes of mathematics, and such
other branches as are usually taught in colleges, which
branches shall be prescribed by the board of visitors to said
institute.

9. The superintendent of public instruction for this state
shall be a member of said board of visitors, and ex-officio
chairman. The said visitors shall be charged with the repair
of the buildings, and care of the grounds and appurtenances,
and with the interest of the schools generally. They shall
appoint and remove professors and other necessary agents,
two-thirds of the whole number voting for appointment or
removal; shall prescribe their duties in conformity with the
law; shall establish rules for the government and discipline
of students, not contrary to the laws of this state; shall regu-
late tuition fees; shall prescribe the duties and control the
proceedings of all officers and employees, with respect to build-
ings, lands, appurtenances, and other property and interests
of the institute; shall draw such money as may be appro-
priated, or otherwise contributed for the support of the same,
and disburse it through their chosen disbursing agent; and,
in general, shall direct and do all things which, not being
inconsistent with the laws of this state, shall to them seem
most promotive of the purposes of said institute, which seve-
ral functions they shall be free to exercise in the form of
by-laws, rules, resolutions, orders, instructions, or otherwise,
as they shall deem proper.

10. The said superintendent of public instruction, and the
visitors of said school shall be a body corporate, under the
name and style of the board of visitors of the Virginia nor-
mal and collegiate institute, with the right as such to use a
common seal. They may plead and be impleaded in all courts
of justice in all cases concerning the institute, which may be
subject of legal cognizance 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
capa tle in law and in trust, for the institute, of receiving
subscriptions and donations, real and personal, as well from
bodies corporate, or persons associated, as from individuals.

11. The said visitors shall, at all times, conform to such
laws as the legislature may, from time to time, think proper
to enact for their government; and the said institute shall,
in all things, and at all times, be subject to the control of the
legislature. The visitors above provided for shall be ap-
pointed on or before the first day of April, eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, and every fourth year thereafter.

12. The number of professors or teachers in the Institute,
all of whom shall be colored, shall be fixed by the Visitors ;
the salary of no one of them shall exceed the sum of fifteen
hundred dollars per annum, except by consent of the said
board of education, given in writing to the visitors.
13. The board of visitors shall designate one of their num-
ber to be treasurer, and shall fix the amount of his bond at
not less than fifteen thousand dollars. Thesaid bond shall
be made payable to the commonwealth of Virginia, shall
have good and sufficient sureties, conditioned for the proper
accounting and paying over of all money and other things
committed to his custody, which bond being approved by the
state board of education, and entered on the journal of the
board of visitors, shall be transmitted to the auditor of public
accounts, and remain on file in his office. The pay of the
treasurer shall in no case exceed one hundred and fifty dollars
a year for the first three years.

14. The board of visitors shall prescribe the terms upon
which students, other than state students, may be admitted;
the nature of their services and the duration thereof, which
shall not be Jess, in any case, than two years, and in the case
of state students, more than four years. They shall admit as
state students, free of charge, for tuition, as soon as practi-
cable, upon evidence of good moral character, fifty young
men, who shall be not less than sixteen nor more than twenty-
five years of age, one of whom shall be selected from each
senatorial district, and ten from the state at large, all to be
chosen by the board of visitors; and when a vacancy has
occurred, or is likely to occur, due notice of the time and
place of making the appointment shall be given by the sec-
retary of the board of visitors. If, after such notice, no
suitable person shall apply from any district, the vacancy
may be supplied from the state at large: provided that the
students so admitted free of charge shall first enter intoa
written contract and agreement with the board of visitors to
teach or engage in educational work for two years. This
shall apply only to state students, and should any student
fail to fill the terms of his contract, he may be relieved from
the same by the payment of one-half of his tuition fee while
at the institute.

15. And be it enacted, That out of the funds due the com-
monwealth of Virginia from the sale of the Atlantic, Missis-
sippi and Ohio railroad, as ratified and confirmed by senate
bill number fifty-six, of session eighteen hundred and eighty-
one—two, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be
retained by the treasurer of the commonwealth to the credit
of the state board of education, to be paid out by said treas-
urer, on the orders or warrants of said board of visitors, in
the execution of this act; and within six months after the
board of visitors shall have declared the institution ready to
receive students, and annually thereafter, there shall be paid
by the auditor of public accounts, on the order of the said
state board of education, to the treasurer elected by the
board of visitors, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, as
annuities to the other state institutions of learning are now

aid.

16. The board of visitors shall examine into progress of
students in each year, and shall give to those who excel in
any branch of learning such honorary testimonials of appro-
bation as they may deem proper. Such reasonable expenses
as the visitors may incur in the discharge of their duties
shall be paid out of the funds of the institute: provided the
sum paid to any one visitor in any one year shall not exceed
fifty dollars.

17. Any person may deposit in the treasury of the state,
or bequeath money, stocks, or bonds to be deposited, or

rant, devise, or bequeath property, real or personal, to be

sold, and the proceeds so deposited, which shall be invested
as the donor may indicate, or the board of visitors may see
proper, for the benefit of the institute; and in such case the
interest or dividend accruirg on such deposits shall be paid
to the treasurer of the institute, on tbe order of the state
board of education, to be used for the purpose thereof, unless
some particular appropriation shall have been designated by
the donor or testator, in which case such particular use or
appropriation shall be respected.

18. This act sball be in force from its passage.