Chap. 5.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act passed January
80, 1845, entitled an act to incorporate the Augusta female seminary.

Approved December 14, 1895.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
st section of an act passed January thirtieth, eighteen hundred
id forty-five, entitled an act to incorporate the Augusta female
minary, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$1. That for the purpose of facilitating and enlarging the opera-
1 of a female school in the city of Staunton and county of Au-
sta, Francis McFarland, James Crawford, William Beames, Adam
ok, John McCue, David Fultz, Addison Waddell, Solomon J. Love,
Marshall McCue, William Frazier, Alexander S. Hall, William M.
te, James A. Cochrane and Benjamin M. Smith, and thzir suc-
ssors be, and they are hereby, constituted as trustees a body poli-
tic and corporate by the name and style of Mary Baldwin seminary ;
and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common
seal; may sue and be sued; plead and be impleaded; and purchase,
receive and hold to them and their successors forever any lands,
tenements, rents, goods aud chattels of what kind soever which may
be purchased by or devised or given to them for the use of said sem-
inary, and to lease, rent, sell or otherwise dispose of the same in
such manner as may seem most conducive to the interest of said
seminary: provided that the lands, goods and chattels so authorized
to be held shall not exceed in amount or value two hundred thou-
sand dollars: and provided also that not less than a majority of the
trustees, for the time being, shall be sufficient to authorize the sale of
any real estate belonging to said seminary. The said trustees may,
upon the recommendation of the principal, confer degrees or honor-
ary titles on former or future full graduates of the seminary who
may be deemed worthy.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.