Chap. 152.—An ACT to incorporate Tazewell Female seminary.

Approved February 18, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
R. B. Gillispie, Ella V. Gillispie, 8. C. Graham, J. W. Chap-
man, William G. Mustard, Joseph S. Moss, George W. Gillis-

ie, and Joseph S. Gillispie, and such other persons as may
e hereafter associated with them, be and they are hereby
created and incorporated and made a body politic and corpo-

rate, under the name and style of Tazewell Female seminary,

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 commit-
ted to their care as pupils at said schools, 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 thing 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 and 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 adigaid seminary. c sR
2. That said seminary 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 manage-
ment of its estates, and the due and orderly conducting of
its affairs: provided that said seminary shall not at any time
acquire and hold real and personal estate exceeding in value
the sum of thirty thousand dollars. ,

3. That said seminary may have such public or other cele-.
brations 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 evidences of graduation, distinction, or proficiency as
said pupils may acquire in their various studies or employ-
ments according to the regulations of said seminary and the
determination of its teachers, instructors, or other officers,
which said diplomas or certificates shall bear the seal of said
seminary, and its signature by its principal instructor.

4. That the officers of said seminary shall consist of a
principal 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 corporators may prescribe.

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