CHAP. 394.—An ACT to amend an act incorporating the trustees
of Union theological seminary, in Virginia, paseed January

9,1

Approved February 25, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the act passed the ninth day of January, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, entitled “An act for the incor-
poration of the trustees of Union theological seminary,
in Virginia,” be amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That Henry M. White, William T.. Richardson, T. J.
Kirkpatrick, L. B. Turnbull, J. M. Sydenstriker, P. D.
Stephenson, Alexander Martin, J. P. Fitzgerald, A. C.
Hopkins, T. L. Preston, J. Hoge Tyler, W. E. McIlwaine,
D. D. McBride, William J. Martin, J. Rumble, P. H. Hoge,
C. E. Graham, F. H. Johnston, Alexander Sprunt, B. F.
Hall, J. Henry Smith, H. G. Hill, E. Nye Hutchison, and
such other persons as may be associated with them and
their successors be, and they are hereby, appointed a body
politic and corporate by the name and style of the trus-
tees of Union theological seminary, in Virginia, and by
that name shall have a perpetual succession and common
seal; may contract and be contracted with, sue and be
sued; may acquire, receive, hold, possess and enjoy,
and may rent, sell, convey, invest and otherwise manage
and dispose of, as to them may seem most conducive
to the interest of said seminary, all lands, money or
other property, real or personal, which may have been
or which may be given or otherwise acquired for the
use of said seminary; and the said trustees and their
successors shall hold office as trustees no longer than
they remain in office as directors, or till their successors
enter upon the discharge of their duties as trustees.

§ 2. The said trustees, and their successors, as a board,
shall have power to fill vacancies in their own body, the
persons elected to fill such vacancies to be chosen from the
directors appointed under the plan and constitution of said
seminary; to appoint a treasurer, secretary, professors
and such other officers as they may deem best. They
nay, for cause deemed good by a majority of the trustees,
or the time being, remove from office any professor,
eacher, trustee or other officer of the seminary, and shall
have power, from time to time, to make and establish by-
aws, rules and regulations for the management of the
nstitution not inconsistent with the laws and constitu-
ion of Virginia.

§ 3. The treasurer, before entering upon the duties of
11s office, shall execute bond, to be approved by the trus-
ees or some one appointed by them, in such penalty as
she trustees shall direct conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of the duties of his office; and it shall be law-
ful for the trustees to obtain judgment for any part thereof,
or for any special delinquency incurred by the treasurer,
yn motion in the circuit court of Prince Edward county
against the treasurer and his securities, upon giving the
parties thirty days’ notice of said motion.

§ 4. Seven trustees shall be requisite to constitute a
quorum for the transaction of business, but it shall re-
quire a majority of all the trustees to constitute a quorum
for the sale or mortgage of real estate, or the election of
a professor or other officer, or for the removal of an officer
or professor.

2. This act shall take effect from its passage, and shal]
be subject to amendment, modification or repeal, at the
pleasure of the general assembly.