CHAP. 303.—An ACT toamend and re-enact the charter of Suffolk
female institute for the purpose of changing the name to Suf-
folk college.

Approved February 16, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the act approved the twenty-fifth day of February,
eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled an act to incorpo-
rate Suffolk female institute, as amended by an act ap-
proved the nineteenth day of January, eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

"$1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That Evelina M. Finney, Sally A. Finney, Martha J. Fin-
ney, Fanny T. Finney, and Mary D. H. Finney, and such
other persons as may be hereafter associated with them
and their successors be, and they are hereby, created, in-
corporated, and made a body politic and corporate under
the name and style of Suffolk college, for the purpose of
keeping and conducting a boarding-school of the above
name, for girls, and teaching and giving instruction to
such girls and other persons as may be committed to their
care as pupils at said @dllege, in all the various studies
and courses of instruction in modern languages, English
or foreign, in ancient languages, in music, in the fine arts,
and in all and any matters and things usually prescribed
in schools and colleges of the highest grade, with the right
and privilege to make and prescribe such rules and regu-
lations as from time to time may seem necessary and
proper to them, and to change or alter the same, to enable
them to conduct the daily and yearly exercises, and suc-
cessfully govern and generally promote and carry out the
objects, purposes, and plans of said college asa boarding-
school for girls and other persons.

§ 2. The said college shall have perpetual succession and
a common seal, which it may alter or amend at its pleas-
ure; and may in its cornorate name sue and be sued, im-
plead 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, things, and property under its authority for
the management of its estates, and the due and orderly
conducting of its affairs: provided, that said college shall
not at any one time acquire and hold real and personal
estate exceeding in value the sum of fifty thousand dollars.

§ 3. The said college may have such public and other
celebrations, at such times and places, and in such man-
ner and fosm, as it may deem advisable and proper; and
may prescribe the courses, number and kind of studies
to be pursued and comprehended by its pupils to entitle
them to certificates of distinction or proficiency, or di-
plomas of graduation, or other evidences of distinction,
proficiency, or graduation, respectively, and may confer
and bestow upon its pupils or graduates, such diplomas,
certificates, or other evidences of graduation, distinction,
or proficiency, as its pupils may acquire in their various
studies or employments, according to its regulations and
the determination of its teachers, instructors, or other offi-
.cers, which said diplomas and certificates shall bear the
seal of said college and the signature of its principal in-
structor. .

§ 4. The officers of said college shall consist of a prin-
cipal instructor, and such assistants in the departments
of instruction and in the domestic department as may be
deemed requisite, to be chosen in such manner and form
as it may prescribe.

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