Chap. 518.—An ACT to incorporate the Shoemaker college, in Scott county.

Approved March 1, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That James
B. Richmond, John M. Johnson, Isaac P. Kane, A. P. Henderson and
William M. Jennings, and their successors, who are hereby consti-
tuted a board of trustees, be, and they are hereby, incorporated and
made a body politic by the name and style of the Shoemaker college,
for the purpose of keeping and conducting a boarding and day
school of the above name, and of giving instruction to such white
persons, male or female, as may be committed to their care as pupils
of said school in all the various studies, courses and branches of
education the said board of trustees may adopt, with the power to
make and prescribe such rules and regulations as from time to time
may seem to them fit and proper, and to change or alter the same to
enable them to conduct the daily and yearly exercises and to suc-
cessfully govern and promote the objects and plans of said college.

2. The members of the board of trustees shall hold office during
good behavior, but may be removed by the circuit court of Scott
county for good cause, to be set forth in the order of removal. Upon
the death or resignation of a member of the board of trustees the
vacancy shall be tilled by the circuit court of Scott county, or the
judge thereof by order entered in vacation, upon the recommendation
of the board, in the following manner: Immediately after any
vacancy shall occur the board of trustees shall meet and certify the
fact to the said circuit court, or the judge thereof in vacation, and at
the same time recommend the names of three persons suitable and fit
to be appointed trustees, and the court or the judge shall, from the
three thus recommended, appoint a trustee to fill said vacancy. A
majority of the board of trustees shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business.

3. The board of trustees appointed hereunder shall, within sixty
days after the passage of this act, meet and elect one of their num-
ber president, and shall also elect a secretary and treasurer, who
need not be members of the board. The officers thus chosen shall
continue in office during the pleasure of the board, and the treasurer
shall be required to execute bond, with good and sufficient security,
in the penalty of at least double the sum which will be received by
him during any one year, conditioned for the faithful performance
of his duties. It shall be the duty of the board to examine and
audit the accounts of the treasurer annually immediately after the
close of the spring session, and at such other time as to them may
seem fit and proper.

4. The Shoemaker college 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 grant estate,
Teal and personal, for its purposes, and make regulations for the
government of all persons and property under its authority, for the
management of its estates and the due and orderly conduct of its

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affairs: provided that it shall not at any time acquire and hold real
and personal estate exceeding in value two hundred thousand dol-
ars.

5. The said college may have such public or other celebrations at
such times and places and in such manner and formas it may deem
proper, and may confer and bestow upon its pupils or graduates
such diplomas or certificates or other evidence of graduation, dis-
tinction or proficiency as said pupils may acquire in their various
studies or employments, according to the regulations of said college
and the determination of its teachers, instructors, trustees or other
officers; which said diplomas or certificates shall bear the seal of
said college and the signatures of its principal, instructors and
trustees, or any of them, as they may determine.

6. Appropriations of public free school funds may be made by the
school districts of Scott county, or either of them, from time to time,
and used for the payment of teachers in maintaining said academy:
provided that no appropriation shall be made for this purpose by
any school district until provision is made for teaching in said college
all the branches now taught in the public free schools of said county,
said branches to be taught free to any white child in Scott county
entitled to attend the public free schools in any district thereof.
The teachers in the public free school department of said college
shall make reports in all respects as required of other teachers in
the free schools, and he subject to the same visitation by the county
superintendent of schools of Scott county.

7. The officers of said college shall consist of a principal and
such assistants in the different departments as may be deemed
requisite, to be chosen in such manner and form as said corporators
may prescribe.

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

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