Chap. 245.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the charter of Staunton academy.

Approved February 8, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act
passed December four, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, entitled an
act to establish an academy and incorporate the trustees thereof, in the
county of Augusta, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Alex-
ander F. Robertson, William H. Landes, C. R. Caldwell, McH. Holli-
day, A. C. Gordon, Joseph B. Woodward and Thomas D. Ranson, and
their successors be, and they are hereby, appointed a body politic and
corporate, to be known by the name of the Staunton academy; and by
that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal; may
contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued; may acquire, re-
ceive, hold, possess and enjoy, and may rent, sell, convey, mortgage,
encumber by deed of trust, invest and otherwise manage and dispose
of, as to said academy may seem most conducive to the interest thereof,
all property, real or personal, which may have been given, or which
may be given, or otherwise acquired for the use of said academy to an
amount not exceeding five thousand dollars.
§ 2. The business of said academy shall be conducted by a board of
trustees, consisting of the seven corporators above named and their suc-
cessors, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transac-
tion of all business, and shall have power to appoint a principal to take
charge of and conduct said academy, and such other officers as they
may deem proper; fix the terms upon which said academy shall be held
by said principal and other officers; regulate the course and mode of
instruction to be pursued therein, and to adopt such by-laws, rules and
regulations for the management of said academy as may, in their judg-
ment, from time to time, be promotive of its objects, and are not incon-
sistent with the laws and constitution of Virginia and of the United
States. The said trustees shall have power to elect a president of their
body, a secretary, and such other officers as they may deem proper; and
upon the death, resignation or other legal disability of any of said
trustees, or their successors, the vacancy thereby occasioned shall be sup-
plied by the remaining trustees, or a majority of them.

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