CHAP. 44.—An ACT to incorporate the Ryland institute.

Approved January 11, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia.
That Lula M. Butt, Annie M. Butt, Josiah Ryland, W. X.
Camp, J. E. Booker, Henry Jones, and L. B. Allen, and
such other persons as may be hereafter associated with
them, be, and they are hereby, created and incorporated
and made a body politic and corporate under the name
and style of Ryland institute, for the purpose of keeping
and conducting a boarding-school of the above name for
girls; and of teaching and giving instruction to such
girls or other persons as may be committed to their care
as pupils of said school in the various studies and courses
of instruction in modern languages, English, or foreign.
and in ancient languages, music, mathematics, the fine
arts and all and any matter or 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 proper to them,
and to change and alter the same, to enable them to con-
duct the daily and yearly exercises, and successfully to
govern and generally promote and carry out the objects
and plan of said institute as a boarding-school for girls
or other persons.
2. The said institute shall have perpetual succession,
and a common seal, which it may alter or amend at its
pleasure, and may, in its corporate name, sue and be sued,
implead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted
with, purchase, hold and convey property, real and per-
sonal, and make regulations for the government of all
persons and things and property under its authority, for
the management of its estate and the due and orderly
conducting of its affairs: provided that said institute shall
not at any time acquire and hold real or personal estate
exceeding in value the sum of fifty thousand dollars.

3. The said institute may have public and other cele-
brations at such times and places, and in such manner
and form, as to it may seem proper, and may prescribe
the course and number and kind of studies to be pursued
and comprehended by its pupils, to entitle the latter to cer-
tificates of distinction or proficiency or graduation, res-
pectively, and may confer and bestow upon its pupils or
graduates such diplomas or certificates, or other evidence
of graduation, distinction or proficiency as said pupils may
acquire in their various studies or employments according
to the regulations of said institute, and the determination
of its teachers, instructors or other officers, which said
diplomas or certificates shall bear the seal of said institute
and the signatures of the instructors.

4. The officers of said institute shall consist of a prin-
cipal instructor, and such assistants in the school or
academic department, and in the domestic department as
may be deemed requisite, to be chosen in such manner as
said corporation may prescribe.

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