Chap. 49.—An ACT to authorize the board of trustees of Hoge academy to con-
vey the property and franchise of the said academy to the president and trus-
tees of Hampden-Sidney college.

Approved January 12, 1898.

Whereas Hoge academy at Blackstone, in the county of Nottoway,
was incorporated by an order of the judge of Nottoway circuit court,
dated June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and duly re-
corded by the clerk of that court, and in the office of the secretary of
tle commonwealth, the capital stock of which being merely nominal, has
not been taken; and

Whereas the board of trustees of said academy, in order to advance
the objects of the said corporation, desire to put it under the direction
and control of the president and trustees of Hampden-Sidney college:

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the board
of trustees of Hoge academy shall be at liberty, and they are hereby,
authorized to convey by proper deed to the president of Hampden-
Sidney college their property and franchise, the school, however, to re-
tain its corporate name of Hoge academy; the said deed to be executed
by the president of the board of trustees of Hoge academy, under the
seal of the corporation, and by the direction of the said board of trus-
tees.

2. The said deed shall be for the said property, subject to the debts
contracted at or before its date by Hoge academy.

3. After the execution and delivery of the said deed, Hoge academy
may sue and be sued as before for the purpose of collecting debts due it,
prosecuting rights under previous contracts with it, and enforcing its lia-
bilities.

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