Chap. 360.—An ACT to authorize the surviving trustee of the Halifax
Academy to appoint new trustees, and said trustees to dispose of the

property.
Approved March 10, 1884.

Whereas it is represented to the general assembly that all
the trustees under an act of assembly passed February six-
teenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled an act to in-
corporate the trustees of the Halitax academy, have died ex-
cept Ethelbert A. Coleman, and for more than twenty-five years
the property beld under said act has not been used for any
of the purposes mentioned and specified in the said act of in-
corporation, and that said property is depreciating in value
for want of proper repairs; and it being further represented
that it may conduce to the interests of said property, or those
lawfully entitled thereto, to have a sale of the whole, or of
some portion thereot; therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the said Ethelbert A. Coleman, sole surviving trustee of the
Halifax academy, be and he is hereby authorized to fill and
supply the vacancies occasioned by the death of the other
trustees of said academy, which said new trustees, with the
said Ethelbert A. Coleman, or a majority of them, shall con-
stitute the trustees of the said Halitax academy.

2. Any five or more of said trustees shall and may consti-
tute a quorum for the transaction of business at any stated
or at any called mecting, due notice of which shall have been
given.

3. Tho said trustees shall have power to Icase, rent, sell,
or otherwise dispose of said property, cither In part or as a
Whole, and in case of a sale of a part thereof, the proceeds
thereof to be applied to the repairs and proper protection of
the residue. But if in the judgement of the said trustees a
sile of the whole property would be advisable, then the pro-
ceeds of sale shall be disposed of among those entitled thereto,
according to decree of any court having competent jurisdic-
tion thereof in a suit brought for the disposition thereof.

4. In any sale made under the provisions of this aet, the
said trustees shall, in their discretion, make provision, by
bond or otherwise, tor the faithful forthcoming of the pro-
ceeds arising therefrom.

5. All actsand parts of acts in conflict herewith aro hereby
repealed.

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