Chap. 912.—An ACT to incorporate the Old Point Comfort college.
Approved March 8, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That John B.
Van der Wee, John Griflin, James Hahnel, John G. “Ridder and Michael
P. Sullivan, and such other persons as they may elect as their associates
and successors from the brotherhood known as the Naverian brothers of
the Roman Catholic church, be, and they are hereby, incorporated and
created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of Old
Point Comfort college, for the purpose of the instruction and education
of boys and young men inthe higher branches of learning and in the
arts and sciences, and for their physical and moral training and improve-
ment as well as the training of their minds,

2. The said college shall have perpetual succession and a corporate
common seal, which it may alter or amend at its pleasure, and in its
corporate name may sue or be sued, contract or be contracted with, and
may adopt such by-laws and make such regulations for the transaction
of its business and for the government of all persons and things under
its authority, for the management of its estate and the due and orderly
conduct of its aif. urs, as may be requisite and necessary and as are not
inconsistent with the laws of the state of Virginia and of the United
States. The said college may construct all necessary buildings, acquire,
receive, hold, and in every legal manner use and enjoy lands, tenements,
hereditaments, money, coods , chattels, and choses in action Which nay
be acquired by gift, donation, devise, subscription, contract or purchase:
provided the said college shall not at any time hold property exceeding
in value the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. The said body cor-
porate may sell, exchange and convey any such of its estate as to it may

be deemed best.
38. The said corporation may establish its college in the county of
Elizabeth City or elsewhere in the state of Virginia, and may establish
branch schools or branch colleges in other parts of this state, and may
employ such professors and teachers as may be deemed necessary for the
accomplishment of its purposes, and may confer upon the graduates of
the aforesaid college, or upon others, such diplomas, honors and degrees
as may to it seem proper.

4. The officers of the said college shall consist of a president, vice-
president, secretary and treasurer, and a board of trustees of not less than
three nor more than thirteen members, who shall be selected by the
members of the said corporation, and such other officers as the board of
trustees may elect. The Brother Provincial of the Xaverian brothers in
America, and his successors, shall always be president of this corpora-
tion.

5. The board of trustees shall elect the vice-president, secretary and
treasurer, and other suitable and necessary officers, at such times, and
in such manner, and on such terms, and for such lengths of time as the
by-laws may prescribe. And said board of trustees shall control, amend,
enact or annul the rules and by-laws of the said corporation as to it may
seem proper. The said board of trustees may, at any time, by a two-
thirds’ vote, expel any member of said board for good cause. The presi-
dent shall have the power of veto over the acts of said board. In the
absence or disability of the president, the vice-president may have such
authority as the president would have were he president.

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