CHAP. 726.—An ACT to incorporate the Hampton training
school for nurses.

Approved March 4, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That A. M. Bacon, Doctor S. K. Towles, Reverend J. J.
Gravatt, Thomas Tabb, S.C. Armstrong P. T. Woodfin,
Doctor J. T. Boutelle and Jacob Heffelfinger, their suc-
cessors and associates, as hereinafter provided, be, and
they are hereby, made a body politic and corporate, under
the name of the Hampton training school for nurses, with
power and authority to establish, maintain and conduct,
in the county of Elizabeth City, a training school for
nurses (the object and purpose being to provide compe-
tent, skilled and efficient nurses for the sick-room), and
in connection therewith to establish, maintain and con-
duct a hospital for the sick and afflicted.

2. The said corporators, and the survivors of them, and
their successors, shall have power from time to time, and
at all times, by resolution of a majority at a corporate
meeting, to appoint successors to any of their number
who may die, resign, or be removed, and to increase their
number: provided, however, that their number shall not
at any one time exceed ten; and also to appoint such off-
cers, agents, assistants, and attendants as may be proper
to carry out the purposes of said corporation.

3. The said corporation shall have power to take, by de-
vise, bequest, purchase, or otherwise, and may hold, trans-
fer, assign and convey, for the purposes of said corpora-
tion, all the real and personal property of which it may
become possessed : provided that the real estate held by it
at any one time shall not exceed five acres.

4. The said corporators shall have power to make such
by-laws, rules and regulations for its government, as from
time to time may be deemed proper; provided said by-
laws, rules and regulations be not contrary to the laws of
the United States or this state.

5. The property of said corporation, so long as used by
it for the purposes hereinbefore set forth, shall be exempt
from taxation.

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