An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1887es |
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Law Number | 325 |
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Chap. 325.—An ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate
the Normal Collegiate institute, and to provide for the support of
the same, approved March 6,1882, and in heu thereof provide anew
for the incorporation of said Normal and Collewiate institute, and
for the support of the same.
Approved May 20, 1887.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to incorporate the Normal and Colle-
giate institute, and to provide for the support of the same,
approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and ecighty-two, be
and the same is hereby repealed, and that it be further en-
acted as follows:
2. The said school shall be known as the Virginia Nor-
mal and Collegiate institute, and shall embrace a normal de-
partment and a collegiate department, and also such profes-
sional departments as may be deemed expedient and proper.
In the normal department shall be taught such branches as
are usually taught in well organized normal schools, and in
the collegiate department shall be taught such branches as
are usually embraced in a college curriculum. Said institute
shall be subject to the government and control of a board of
visitors, whereof the organization, powers, and duties shall
be as follows:
3. The board of visitors shall consist of seven members.
Of said board the superintendent of public instruction of this
State shall be a member, and ex-officio chairman. The other
six members shall be well qualified colored men, who are
citizens of Virginia, and who shall be appointed by the board
of education, subject to confirmation of the Senate. The term
of office of said colored visitors sball be for six years: pro-
vided that of the present board, two members shall be desig-
nated by the board of education to continue in office until
the first day of April, eighteen hundred and cighty-eight,
two until the first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety,
and two until the first day of April, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two. For the rogular term beginning on the firgt day
of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two members of
said board of visitors shall be appointed, as herein provided,
on or before the first day of March preceding, aud like ap-
pointments shall be made biennially thereafter. Vacancies
occurring within any regular term shall be filled for the un-
expired part of such term.
4. The board of visitors, including the superintendent of
public instruction, shall be a body corporate under the name
and style of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Normal and
Collegiate Institute, with the right, as such to use a common
seal. They may plead and be impleaded in all courts of jue-
tice in all cases concerning the institute, which may be sub-
ject of legal cognizance and jurisdiction, which pleas 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 institute, of receiving sub-
scriptions and donations, real and personal, as well from
bodies corporate, or persons associated, as from individuals.
5. A majority of the members of said board of visitors
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
They shall appoint a rector of their own body to preside at
their meetings in the absence of the superintendent of public
instruction, and a sccretary to record, attest, and preserve
their proceedings, who shall be a member of their own body.
and may reccive a nominal salary for his services to be fixed
by the board. They shall appoint a treasurer and prescribe
his duties, and shall fix the amount of his bond at not less
than fifteen thousand dollars. The said bond shall be made
payable to the commonwealth of Virginia, shall have good
and sufficient sureties, conditioned for the proper accounting
and paying over of all moneys and other things committed
to his custody, which bond being approved by the State
board of education, and entered on the journal of the board
of visitors, shall be transmitted to the auditor of public ac-
counts, and remain on file in his office.
6. The powers and duties of said board of visitors shall be
as follows, viz.: .
a. To appoint a president of said institute, and all protes-
sors, teachers, all of whom shall be colored, and all necessary
ayents or employces, and to fix their salaries or compensa-
tions, and also those of the secretary and treasurer of said
board: provided that the salary of the president shall not
exceed fiftecn hundred dollars per year, except with the
written consent of the board of education.
b. To prescribe the duties of the president, professors.
teachers, all of whom shall be colored, and all agents or em-
ployecs of said institute.
c. To prescribe the course of study in the several depart-
ments of said institute, and to fix the length of the scholastic
term, and the number of terms to be occupied by the course
of study in each department.
d. To prescribe the terms upon which students other than
State students shall be admitted, specifying especially the
charges for tuition and board, and to establish rules and regu-
tions for the discipline and government of all students ad-
mitted to said institute.
e. To examine into the conduct and management of the
school, the fidelity and efficiency to the officers and employ-
ees, the methods of instruction employed, the progress of the
students, and to grant to such as excel in any branch of learn-
ing, or complete a prescribed course of study, such honorary
testimonials in the way of certificates of proficiency or diplo-
mas as shall be deemed expedient.
f. To inspect annually, and as much oftener as is deemed
necessary, all buildings, lands, appurtenances, and other prop-
erty of said institute, to provide for the duc care and preser-
vation of the same, and to cause to be made out and kept on
file an inventory of all such property, both real and personal,
specifying therein the value and condition thereof.
g. To disburse such funds as may belong to the institute,
upon the system of warrants and checks “prescribed by the
board of education and now in use in all of the financial
transactions of said institute.
h. To make an annual report, through the office of the
superintendent of public instruction, to the board of educa-
tion in conformity to the requirements of the law providing
for reports from State institutions, approved —.
To appoint an executive committee, of which the super-
intendent shall be one, for the performance of such duties as
the said board of visitors may prescribe.
j. In general to direet and do all things not inconsistent
with the laws of this State, which to them shall seem best
adapted to accomplish the legitimate objects of said institute.
All of which several functions they shall be free to exercise
in the form of by-laws, rules, resolutions, orders, instructions,
or otherwise as they may deem proper.
7. Said board of visitors shall have power to remove, two-
thirds of the members thereof concurring, the president, pro-
fessors, teachers, agents, or employees of said institute.
8. Said board of visitors shall in all their official acts, con-
form to the laws of this State, and shall act under the direc-
tion and supervision of the board of education, and for any
fnilure to do this they shall be subject to removal by said
board of education.
9. There shall be admitted into the institute, free of charge
for tuition, use of laboratory or public buildings, and upon
such terms as to board and other expenditures as the board
of visitors may prescribe, a number of colored students equal
to twice the number of members of the House of Delegates,
to be apportioned in the same manner. Such students shall
be designated as State students, and shall not be less than
fifteen nor more than twenty-five years of age, and shall be
selected by the superintendents of schools of the respective
counties and cities from the colored pupils of either sex at-
teding the free schools, or in their discretion from others
than those attending said free schools. Superior proficiency
in study and good moral character shall be duly regarded in
the selections.
10. Due notice shall be given by the president of said in-
stitute to the county and city superintendents of schools of
all vacancies existing or likely to occur in said institute in
the case of State students, whereupon said county or city
superintendents of schools shall proceed to fill said vacancy,
and officially notify the president of said institute of said ap-
pointment. I=f in due time after such notice, no appointment
be made, the vacancy indicated may be filled by the board
of visitors from the State at large: provided that any State
student, as a condition precedent to admission into suid insti-
tute, shall enter into a written contract with said board of
visitors to engage in teaching school or other educational
work for not less than two years, but such student shall not
by this section be deprived of any compensation which he
may be able to obtain for teaching or other educational work.
Should any such State student fail to: comply with the con-
tract herein specified, he may be relieved therefrom by the
payment in cash of one-half of the tuition and other fees re-
mitted to him while he or she was a student of said institute.
11. The sum of twenty thousand dollars shall be appro-
priated annually out of the revenues of the State for the sup-
port and maintenance of said institute.
12. The board of education shall have power to designate
the bank or banks in which shall be kept on deposit all
moneys accruing to said institute from the annuity herein
provided for, and from all other sources, and to prescribe the
manner in which said moneys shall be disbursed: provided
tho said board shall not designate for the purpose aforesaid,
any bank or banks which are not at the time State deposi-
tories so designated by the governor.
13. The auditor of public accounts shall on the orders of
the board of education, issue his warrants for such amounte
of said annuity as are specified in said orders; said warrants
to be made payable to the casbier of the bank designated by
said board of education as a depository of the funds of said
institute; said funds to be placed by said cashier to the credit
of the treasurer of said institute.
14. Any person may deposit in the treasury of the State.
or bequeath money, stocks, or bonds to be deposited, or grant.
devise, or bequeath property, real or personal to be sold, and
the proceeds so deposited, which shall be invested as the
donor may indicate, or the board of visitors may see proper,
for the benfit of the institute; and in such case the interest
or dividend accruing on such deposits shall be placed to the
credit of the treasurer of the institute on the order of the
board of education, to be used for the purpose thereof, unless
some particular appropriation shall have been designated by
the donor or testator, in which case such particular use or
appropriation shall be respected. ,
15. The board of visitors sball have two stated meetings
at the institute in each year, to-wit: At the close of the term
of the institute in June, and on the second Thursday in Ne-
vember. They may bave occasional meetings at such times
as they may appoint, or on the call of the chairman. Such
reasonable expenses as the visitors may incur in tho discharge
of their duties shall be paid out of the funds of the institute:
provided the sum paid to any one visitor in any one year
shall. not exceed fifty dollars.
16. All the proceedings of the board of visitors shall be
approved by the board of cducation to make them valid.
Said board of education shall further have power to adopt
any measures which they may deem necessary to the wefare
of said institute whenever exigencies shall arise for which no
provision has been mado by the board of visitors.
17. Nothing in this act shall be construed to suspend or
in any wise interfcre with the powers and duties of the build-
ing committee created by act of assembly, approved Feb-
ruary five, eighteen hundred and eighty-six.
18. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are
hereby repealed.
19. This act shall be in force from its passaye.