Chap. 50.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3, and to repeal
section 8, of an act entitled an act to establish a State Female Nor-
mal School, and to add an independent section.

Approved Januarv 28, 1886.

1, Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section three of chapter three hunered and eleven of the Acts
of eighteen hundred and eighty-three and eighty-four, entitled
an act to establish a State Female Normal School, be amended
and re-enacted, so as to read as follows; that section eight of
said chapter be repealed, and that an independent section be
added:

§ 3. Said trustees shall be a body corporate, under the name
and style of The State Female Normal School, with the right
as such to use a common seal. They may plead and be im-
pleaded in all courts of justice, in all cases concerning the
school which may be subjects of legal cognizance and jurisdic-
tion, which plea 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 school, of
receiving subscriptions and donations, real and personal, as
well from bodies corporate or persons associated, as from indi-
viduals. Said board of trustees shall from time to time make
all needful rules and regulations for the good government and
management of the school; fix the number and compensation
of teachers and officers, and other necessary employees of the
board and school; and shall require bond, with approved secu-
rity, from any of said officers or employees, as they may deem
necessary to protect the school or the funds thereof. The
bonds when taken to be in such penalty as the board may pre-
scribe, and to be made payable to the State Female Normal
School. All bonds shall be verified before the president of the
board of trustees as other official bonds are required to be veri-
fied, and when approved by the board shall be filed with the
auditor of public accounts. The board of trustees shall pre-
scribe the preliminary examination and conditions on which
students shall be received and instructed in the school. They
may appoint an executive committee, to perform such duties as
the board may prescribe. The trustees shall annually transmit
to the governor a full account of their proceedings under this
act, together with a report of the progress, condition and pros-
pects of the school. All property held by the State normal
school, as it now exists, by donations from the town of Farm-
ville, appropriated from the state or otherwise, shall be and is
hereby transferred to the said corporation of The State Fe-
male Normal School; and all acts done by the trustees or other
officers of the school are hereby legalized, and shall have the
same force as though the board had been incorporated.

2. The board of trustees of this school shall have authority
to grant diplomas to those that have graduated and been found
proficients in its course of normal studies.

3. Section eight, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict
with this act, are hereby repealed. |

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