Chap. 684.—An ACT to incorporate the Hamilton institute, in
the county of Washington.

Approved March 8, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That John M. Hamilton, J. T. Martin, John W. Kaylor, H.C.
Hally, William Sutton, senior, A. F. Barker, W. S. Stick-
ley, R. C. Hamilton, Solomon Sprales, Henry Wood, James
Sutton, Zachariah Crabtree, T. C. Price, and George W.
Pettyjohn, trustees, and such others as may become asso-
ciated with them, be, and they are hereby, incorporated
and made a body politic by the name and style of Hamil-
ton institute, for the purposes of keeping and conducting
a boarding and day school of the above name, and of giv-
ing instruction to any such persons as may be committed
to their care as pupils of said school in all the various
studies and courses of instruction in all elementary
branches, modern languages, English and French, and in
ancient languages, and in music and fine arts, and all other
matter or things usually prescribed in schools and colleges
of the highest grade and of, as well as, high school, acad-
emies, and public free school, with the right and priv-
ilege to make and prescribe such rules and regulations as
from time to time may seem fit and proper to them, and
to change or to alter the same, to enable them to conduct
the daily and yearly exercises, and successfully to govern
and generally to promote the objects and plans of said
institute.

2. The said institute shall have the power of 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, give, grant estate, real
and personal, for its purposes, and make regulations for
the government of itself, of all persons and things pro-
perly under its authority, for the management of its estate
and the due and orderly conduct of its affairs: provided said
institute shall not at any time acquire and hold real and
personal estate exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars.
Said corporation shall have power to borrow money and
issue its bonds therefor, and secure the payment of said
bonds by mortgages and deeds of trust upon all or any
portion of the property, real or personal, and it may, as its
business may require, sell, lease, convey and encumber,
and shall provide for payment of the interest on its said
bonds by requiring the treasurer of said board of trustees
to collect and set apart at the commencing of each session
of said school a part of the contingent fund paid by the
students and the pupils, as may be prescribed by the said
board of trustees.

3. The buildings of said institute may at all times be
opened to the public free schools of said district, under
the supervision and control of said board of trustees of
said institute.

4, The board of trustees, hereinbefore provided for, shall
at all times have at least one-third of its members composed
of Masons, in good standing, of the masonic lodge of
Mendota, in said county; that said lodge is hereby em-
powered and authorized to contract, bargain, sell, convey
or release any or all of its property to said institute, or
for the benefit thereof, with such conditions, restrictions
or limitations as may be stipulated, or it may encumber
its property by deeds of trust or otherwise for the benefit
of said institute.

5. Each member of said board of trustees of said insti-
tute shall be, and is hereby, constituted a conservator of
the peace, with all the powers and duties now conferred
by law on conservators of the peace, and shall have and
exercise on the premises of said institute, and within one
mile thereof, such powers and duties; and, in addition
thereto, where disturbances and breaches of peace, drunk-
enness, profanity, indecency and other like offences are
committed in their presence or hearing, shall have the
power, without a warrant, to arrest such offender or
offenders and take the same before the mayor of the town
of Mendota, or any justice of the peace of Washington
county, who, after a warrant has been duly issued, try and
dispose of such offender according to law.

6. No license for the sale of spirituous or malt liquors,
or any mixtures thereof, shall be granted for the sale of
such intoxicating liquors within two hundred yards of
the premises of said institute.

7. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act
are hereby repealed.

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