Chap. 630.—An ACT to incorporate the McDaniel and Farmville academy.

Approved March 3, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That H. H.
Mitchell, Richard W. Watson, W. F. Fowlkes, Nelson Jordan, Ed-
ward Matthews, W. H. Coleman, Richard Young, Booker Saunders,
George Robertson, J. B. Matthews, Thomas F. Blue, Moses Booker,
Moses Thomas, J. B. Smith, C. L. Bethell, William Miller, Morgan
Reed, C. H. McDaniel, and their associates and successors, be, and
they are hereby, made a body politic and corporate under the name
and style of the McDaniel and Farmille academy, of Farmville, and by
that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded, purchase, receive, and hold,
sell and dispose of any property real and personal, necessary and
proper for the use and benefit of said academy, and under their com-
mon seal make and establish from time to time such rules and by-
laws, not contrary to the laws of Virginia, for the government and
control of the professors and students thereof, and for the conduct
and maintenance of the academy.

2. The president of the said McDaniel and Farmville academy, of
Farmville, shall have power and authority to award to any student
or students he may deem worthy diplomas.

3. All rights, powers, privileges, exemptions, and immunities se-
cured by the laws of Virginia to like academies or institutions are
also hereby granted to the said McDaniel and Farmville academy, of
Farmville, hereby incorporated. It shall be free from all taxation,
and subject in all respects to the lawsof Virginia in such cases made
and provided.

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