Chap. 681.—An ACT to incorporate the Stonewall Jackson institute.
Approved March 8, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That John
A. Buchanan, R. M. Page, John G. White, F. B. Hutton, W. B.
Ingham, Robert A. Preston, James L. White, F. B. Hurt, T. P. Trigg,
W.G. G. Lowery, William J. Brown, B. Gildersleeve, H. Fugate,
T. A. Wharton, J. J. Stuart, and fifteen other persons to be named
by the Abingdon presbytery, and their successors be, and are hereby,
constituted a body politic and corporate under the name and style
of Stonewall Jackson institute, and by that name have perpetual
succession and acommon seal, and may sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, in any court of law or equity; and the said trustees
of Stonewall Jackson institute shall be capable in law to receive,
hold, and dispose of real and personal property, in order to carry out
the purposes of their incorporation; provided the amount of real and
personal estate shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.

2. The said Stonewall Jackson institute shall be under the control
and management of the said trustees and their successors, who shall
appoint a treasurer, and all necessary officers and professors, and
from time to time make such by-laws, rules and regulations for the
government of the institution as to them shall seem fit, not incon-
sistent with the laws of this state or of the United States.

8. The board of trustees, two-thirds concurring, shall have power
to remove any trustee for any good cause, and when any trustee shal!
absent himself from three successive meetings, without assigning a
sufficient reason at the fourth, the trustees of said institution shall
have power, by entry on their minutes, to declare his seat vacant.

4, Ten of the trustees shall constitute a board for the transaction
of ordinary business, and any vacancies in said board of trustees,
occasioned by death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by ap-
pointment, alternately, by the surviving trustees and the Abingdon
presbytery—the surviving trustees filling the first vacancy that
occurs.

5. The treasurer shall receive all moneys accruing to the institute
and property delivered to his care, and shall pay or deliver the same
to the order of the board of trustees. Before entering upon the dis-
charge of his duties he shall give bond, with such security and in
such penalty as the board shall direct, made payable to the trustees
for the time being, and their successors, and conditioned for the
faithful performance of the duties of his office in all such rules and
regulations as the board may adopt.

6. The said board of trustees shall have power, either by them-
selves or their agents, to take and receive subscriptions for said in-
stitute; and in case any person shall fail to pay his or her subscrip-
tion to enforce the payment thereof by warrant before a magistrate
or by motion in any court of record in this commonwealth, accord-
ing to the amount of said subscription, giving ten days’ previous no-
tice of such motion.
7. In order to promote the endowment of said institution it shall
be lawful for the trustees to issue and grant certificates of scholar-
ships, setting forth the amount of such scholarships, which may be
either perpetual or limited, and for such amounts and upon such
conditions as the trustees may determine, entitling the holders of
such scholarships to such rights as to placing pupils in the school
and upon such terms as may be set forth therein on their face,
which said certificates of scholarship may be transferred, be-
queathed or otherwise disposed of as any other property.

8. The board of trustees, in connection with the president and
professors of the institute, shall have power to confer such diplomas
and literary titles as they may think best calculated to promote the
cause of female education.

9. The board shall have power to appoint an executive committee
of three, who shall perform such duties as may be assigned to
them by the board, either by resolution or by the by-laws that may
be adopted by the board.

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