Chap. 568.—An ACT to incorporate the Ingram institute.

Approved March 1, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That 8. T. A. Kent, E. K. Tune, J. C. Pierce, E, J. Dunn,
P. H. Terry, H. 8. Walton and John F. Davis, and such
other persons as may hereafter be associated with them,
be, and they are hereby, created and incorporated and
made a body politic and corporate under the name
and style of Ingram institute, for the purpose of keep-
ing and conducting a boarding and day school of the
above name, and of teaching and giving instruction
to such persons, both male and female, as may be com-
mitted to their care as pupils of said school, in the
various studies and courses of instruction in modern lan-
guages, English and French, and in ancient languages,
music, mathematics, the fine arts, and all and any mattereor
things usually prescribed in schools and colleges of the
highest grade, with the right and privilege to make and
prescribe such rules and regulations as from time to time
may seem proper to them, and to change and alter the
same, to enable them to conduct daily and yearly exer-
cises and successfully to govern and generally promote and
carry out the objects and plan of said institute.

2. The said institute shall have perpetual succession and
a common seal, which it may alter or amend at its plea-
sure, and may in its corporate name sue and be sued, im-
plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with,
purchase, hold, and convey property, real and personal,
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 con-
ducting 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
force and number and kind of studies to be pursued and
comprehended by its pupils to entitle the latter to certifi-
cates of distinction or proficiency, or graduation, respect-
ively, and may confer and bestow upon its pupils or grad-
uates 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 determiuation
of its teachers, instrustors or other officers, which said
diplomas or certificates shall bear the seal of said insti-
tute and the signatures of its principal, instructors and
trustees or directors. °

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

5. No license for the sale of malt or spirituous liquors
within three miles of said institute shall be granted.

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