Chap. 56.—An ACT to amend sections 2,3, and 8 of an act passed
March 14, 1853, entitled an act to establish Roanoke college in the
county of Roanoke.

Approved February 8, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the Collegiate institute, a seminary of leaning for the instruc-
tion of youth in the various branches of science and litera-
ture, the useful arts, and the learned and foreign languages,
be and is hereby erected into a college which shall be known
by the name of Roanoke college.

2. That J. H. Griffin, C. C. Baughman, J. P. Kizer, J. B.
Davis, J. A. Brown, A. R. Rude, E. Hawkins, A. P. Luddem,
George Shuey, B. F. Hailman, Jacob Baylor, John Groseclose,
M. Miller, G. W. Rader, A. Hupp,J. B. J. Logan, N. Burwell,
and G. P. Tayloe, be and are hereby constituted and appointed
trustees of said college, who and their successors shall be a
body politic and corporate by the name of the trustees of
Roanoke college, and shall have perpetual succession and a
common seal, and by the name aforesaid they and their suc-
cessors shall be capable in law, and shall have full power and
authority to acquire, hold, possess, purchase, receive, and |
retain to them and their successors forever, any lands, tene-
ments, rents, goods, chattels, or interest of any kind what-
soever, which may be given to them or be by them purchased
for the use of said college; to transfer, convey, and dispose
of the same in any manner whatsoever they shall adjudge
most useful to the interests and legal purposes of the institu-
tion; and by the.same name to sue and be impleaded, answer
and be answered in all courts of law and equity; to select and
employ a treasurer and such other officers and agents as they
may deem proper; to select and employ such président, pro-
fessors, and tutors for the benefit of the college as they may
deem necessary; to establish and execute or cause to be
executed all such laws, rules, and ordinances not inconsistent
with the constitution and laws of the United States or of this
commonwealth, as they may think necessary for the welfare
and good government of said college and all professors and
others connected therewith. The said trustees and their suc-
cessors, shall also have power to accept and execute trusts
committed to them by friends and donors of the college for
mortuary and other similar purposes.

3. That the trustees of the college shall meet at least once '
a year, and may hold such other meetings as may be provided

for by their by-laws; that the board of trustees shall consist
of not less than fifteen nor more than twenty-one members,
of whom two-thirds shall be members of the Evangelical
Lutheran church; that seven trustees shall constitute a quo-
rum for the transaction of business, except that a majority of
the whole number of said trustees shall be required to elect
the officers of the board and the president and professors and
instructors of the college, and to dispose of any real estate
belonging to the institution.

4, That the president of the college with the consent of
the trustees, shall have power to establish and regulate the
mode and course of instruction and education to be pursued
in said college, and together with such professors as the cor-
poration may designate, shall be styled the faculty of the col-
lege, and shall have power to adopt and enforce such rules as
may be deemed expedient for the good government of the
institution; which rules shall not be inconsistent witb the
constitution and laws of the United States or of this common-
wealth, nor with the by-laws and ordinances of the corpora-
tion, and shall remain in full force until disapproved of by
the trustees.

5. That the trustees or any quorum of them, shall have full
power and authority to meet at such times as they may think
necessary for the examination of any candidate or candidates
for the literary degrees whom the faculty may recommend,
and they are hereby authorized and empowered to confer
such degrees on such persons as in their opinion shall merit the
same in as ample a manner as any college of this common-
wealth can do, and under their common seal to grant testi-
monials thereof signed by the faculty of the college.

6. That the said trustees shall annually clect a treasurer
of said college, who shall give bond with approved security,
payable to the trustees and their successors (by the corporate
name aforesaid) conditioned faithfully to discharge the duties
of said office; and shall render an account of all moncys,
goods, and chattels received and expended by him on account
of, and for the use of said college at least once a year and
oftener if required by said board of trustees; and on failure
or refusal to do so, he and his securities shall be subject to
like proceedings as are prescribed by law in case of the
shoriffs failing to account for and pay into the treasury of
this commonwealth the public taxes collected by them; such
proceedings to be conducted in the name of the trustees in
their politic and corporate character aforesaid.

7. That said trustees or a majority of them shall have
power to remove or suspend the president or any of the pro-
fessors or tutors at any time, two-thirds of their whole num-
ber concurring therein, and to remove in like manner any of
the trustees for good cause; and when there shall be a
vacancy in said board of trustees, occasioned by death,
removal, or resignation or refusal to act, the remaining trus-
tees or a quorum of them shall supply the vacancy.

§8. The said trustees and their successors are hereby

authorized, as far as their funds may warrant, to admit gra-

tuitously in whole or in part as their respective cases may

require, such person or persons as they may think proper;

and it shall be the duty of said board of trustees when thereto |
required, to make a report of the general condition of the

college to the president and directors of the literary fund.

9. That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as
at any time to authorize the establishment of a theological
professorship in said college.

10. The legislature reserves to itself the power to alter or
abolish this charter at any time.

11. This act shall be in force from ite passage thereof. i