Chap. 120.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 4 of an act

entitled an act to incorporate the Hampton normal and agricultural
institute.

Approved May 2, 1887.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and tour of an act entitled an act to incorporate
the Hampton normal and agricultural institute, approved
June fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Now he it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That O. O. Howard, George Whipple, M. B. Stricby, James
A. Garfield, John F. Lewis, EK. P. Smith, Robert W. Hughes,
James F. B. Marshall, Alexander Hyde, B. G. Northborp,
Samuel Holmes, Edgar Kitchum, W. EK. Whiting, H. C. Per-
cey. 5. Armstrong, and such others as they may associate
with them, and their successors, be and are hereby consti-
tuted a hody politic and corporate by the name of the trus-
tees of the Hampton normal and agricultural institute, and
shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and by
the name aforesaid, they and their successors shall he e: ipable
in law, and sball bave full power and authority to acquire,
hold, possess, purchase, receive, and retain to them and their
successors forever, any lands, tenements, rents, goods, chat-
tels, or interest of any kind w hatsoever, which may be given
or bequeathed to them, or be by them purchased for the use
of an institution of learning. to be called the Hampton nor-
mal and agricultural institute: provided the real estate does
not exceed eight hundred thousand dollars in value. They
and their successors shall have power to transfer, convey, and
dispose of the same in any manner whatsoever they shall
adjudge most useful to the interest and legal purposes of the
said institution, and by their corporate name may suc and
implead, and be sued and impleaded, may answer and be
answered, in all courts of law and equity.

§4. That when there shall be a vacancy in the board of
trustees, occasioned by death, resignation, removal or refusal
to act, the remaining trustees or a majority of them, shall, on
being notified by the secret ary or president. supply the va-
cancy at the next annual meeting. Itshall be lawtul for any
five of the trustees, or the executive committee, to call a
meeting of the trustees whenever they shall deem it expe-
dient.

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