Chap. 383.—An ACT to incorporate Chatham female Episcopal institute.

Approved February 24, 18.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That A.
M. Randolph, C. O. Pruden, C. F. Smith, N. H. Massie, G. W. Dame,
P.M. Boyden, 8. G. Whittle, J. W. Morton, G. E. Faulkner, C. Dabney,
E. D. Saunders, C. L. Holland and R.W. Watkins, as trustees, and
thefr successors, be, and they are hereby, incorporated and made a
body politic under the name and style of the Chatham Episcopal
female school, at the town of Chatham, Virginia, under the aus-
pices of the Danville convocation of the Protestant Episcopal
church, in the diocese of southern Virginia, 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 as may be
committed to their care as pupils of the said school in all the vari-
ous studies and courses of instruction, in ancient and modern lan-
guages, sciences, book-keeping, telegraphy, shorthand, typewriting,
music, fine arts and in all other things usually prescribed in schools
and colleges of the highest grade, with the right and privilege tc
make and prescribe such rules and regulations as from time to time
may seem to them fit and proper, and to change and alter the same
as the best interest of the school may require.
2. The said corporation 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, plead and be impleaded with,
contract and be contracted with.

3. The said trustees and their successors shall have power to ap-
point a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, professors,
teachers and such other officers and agents as they may see fit for
the said corporation, and they may take from the treasurer or any
other officer or agent bond with security and in such penalty as they
may deem proper, made payable to the said corporation and condi-
tioned for the faithful performance of the duties of such officer or
agent, under such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the
said trustees. And it shall be lawful for the said corporation to ob-
tain a judgment for the amount thereof, or for any special delin-
quency incurred by such officer or agent, on motion in the circuit or
county court of Pittsylvania county, Virginia, against such officer or
agent and his surety or sureties, his or their executors and adminis-
trators, upon giving ten days’ notice of such motion.

4. The said corporation shall have power to acquire by purchase,
gift, devise or bequest, property, real and personal; to receive endow-
ments and create scholarships upon such terms and conditions as it
may deem proper, and may hold, manage, control, sell, convey or
dispose of said property solely for the benefit of the Chatham Epis-
copal female school: provided that the said school shall not at any
time acquire and hold real and personal estate exceeding in value
the sum of fifty thousand dollars.

5. The said board of trustees shall have power to appoint agents
to solicit donations and subscriptions to the said corporation; and
in case any person shall fail fo pay his or her subscription, to enforce
the payment thereof in the name of the said corporation before a
magistrate or by motion in any court of record in this commonwealth,
according to the amount of such subscription, upon giving ten days’
notice of such motion. |

6. The said school may have such public and other celebrations
at such times and places and in such manner and form as it may
deem proper, and may confer and bestow upon its pupils or gradu-
ates such diplomas, degrees or certificates, or other evidences of
graduation, distinction or proficiency as said pupils may acquire in
their various studies or employments according to the regulations of
the said school and the determination of its teachers, instructors or
other officers, which said diplomas, degrees and certificates shall
bear the seal of the said school and the signature of its principal.

7. The officers of the said school shall consist of a principal and
any such assistants in the school and academic and musical depart-
ments, and in the domestic department, as may be deemed requisite,
to be chosen in such manner and form as the said trustees may
prescribe.

8. The said trustees may adopt such by-laws, rules and regula-
tions, not contrary to the laws of this state, as as they deem proper.

9. The said trustees shall have power to fill any vacancy which
may occur in their body arising from death, resignation, inability or
refusal to act, removal from this state or other cause declared by the
by-laws sufficient to create a vacancy.

10. If at any time the said school shall be abandoned or cease to
be used for the purposes of this act, then all of its property, real and
personal, shall, after reasonable notice to the public, be sold by the
said trustees by public auction upon such terms as they may pre-
scribe, and the proceeds of the sale thereof apportioned among the
donors, contributors and subscribers to the said corporation, their
heirs and distributees, in proportion to the amount of their respec-
tive donations, contributions and subscriptions. ,

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