Chap. 134.—An ACT to incorporate the Berkeley collegiate insti-
tute.

Approved February 2, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That W. B. Loving, L. B. Allen, C. W. Rockafeller, Charles
Bliven, E. M. Tilley, and such other persons as may here-
after be associated with them, and their successors, be, and
they are hereby, constituted a body corporate by the name
and style of the trustees of the Berkeley collegiate insti-
tute, for the purpose of conducting a high seminary of
learning at Berkeley, in the county of Norfolk, to be
known as the Berkeley collegiate institute, and shall have
perpetual succession and a common seal, sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded: the corporation at no time to
consist of less than five nor more than fifteen persons.

2. The said corporation shall have power to acquire by
purchase, gift, devise, or bequest, property, real and per-
sonal, and may hold, manage, control, sell, convey, or dis-
pose of said property solely for the benefit of the Berke-
ley collegiate institute: provided the value thereof shall
not exceed at any time one hundred thousand dollars; and
provided further, that a majority of all the trustees shal]
vote affirmatively on any proposition for the mortgage or
sale of said real estate or any part of the same.

3. The said corporation shall have power to make and
adopt, alter, or amend by-laws, rules and regulations not
contrary to the laws of this commonwealth, for the admis-
sion and expulsion of members and for the government
of said the Berkeley collegiate institute; may appoint
professors and other officers and prescribe their duties and
their remuneration, and confer literary titles and honors.

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