An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1897/1898 |
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Law Number | 976 |
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Chap. 976.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled “ An act to incorporate
Chatham Female Episcopal institute,’ soas to change the name of said institute
and define and establish its powers.
Approved March 4, 1898.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
act entitled an act to incorporate Chatham female Episcopal insti-
tute, approved February the twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows :
A. M. Randolph, C. O. Pruden, C. FL Smith, N. Hl. Massie, G. W.
Dame, E. 8. Reid, John P. Hurt, J. W. Morton, G. FE. Faulkner, C.
Dabney, J. Cleveland Hall, FE. W. Saunders, C. L. Holland and R. W.
Watkins, as trustees, and their successors be, and they are hereby, in-
corporated and made a body politic under the name and style of the
Chatham Episcopal institute, at the tewn of Chatham, Virginia, under
the auspicies of the Danville convocation of the Protestant Episcopal
church, in the diocese of southern Virginia, for the purpose of keeping
and conducting a boarding and day se hool of the above n: ime, and of
teaching and giving Instruction to such persons as may be committed to
their care as pupils of said sehool in all the various studies and courses
of instruction, in ancient and modern languages, sciences, book-keeping,
telegraphy, shorthand, typewriting, music, fine arts, and in all other
things usually preseribed in schools and colleges of the highest grade,
with the right and privilege to makeand prescribe such rules and regula-
tions as from time to time may seem to them fitand proper, and to
change and alter the same as the best interests of the school may require.
2. The said corporation shall have perpetual succession and a common
geal, which it may alter or amend at its pleasure, and may in its corpo-
rate name sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded with, contract and
be contracted with.
3. The said trustees and their successors shall have power to appoint
a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, professors, teachers, and
such other officers and agents as they may see fit for the said corpora-
tion,and they may take from the treasurer or any other officer or agent
bond with security and in such penalty as they may deem proper, niade
payable to the said corporation and conditioned for the faithful perform-
ance of the duties of such oflicer or agent, under such rules and regula-
tions as may be adopted bv the said trustees. And it shall be lawful for
the said corporation to obtain a Judgment for the amount thereof, or for
any special delinqueney incurred by such oflicer or agent, on motion in
the circuit or county court of Pittsy vania county, Virginia, against such
officer or agent and his surety or sureties, his or their executors and ad-
ministrators, upon giving ten days’ notice of such motion,
4. The said corporation shall have power to acquire by purchase, gift,
devise or bequest, property, real and personal, and thesame from time to
time to sell, convey, mortgage, encumber, charge, pledge, grant, lease, sub-
lease, alien and dispose of; to receive endowments and create scholar-
ships upon such terms and ‘conditions as it m: iy deem proper, and hold-
ing, using, controlling, encumbering, and disposing of said property for
the sole use and benetit of the Chatham Episcopal institute.
But the said school shall not at any time acquire and hold real and
personal estate exceeding in value the sum of fifty thousand dollars.
5. The said board of trustees shall have power to appoint agents to
solicit donations and subscriptions to the said corporation; and in case
any person shall fail to pay his or her subscription, to enforce the pay-
ment thereof in the name of the said corporation before a magistrate or
by motion in any court of record in this commonwealth according to the
amount of such subscription, upon giving ten days’ notice of such motion.
6. The said school may have such public and other celebrations at
such times and places and in such manner and form as it may deem
proper, and may confer and bestow upon its pupils or graduates such
diplomas, degrees, or certificates, or other evidences of graduation, dis-
tinction, or proficiency as said pupils may acquire In their various
studies or employments according to the regulations of the said school
and the determination of its teachers, instructors, or other officers, which
sald diplomas, degrees, and certificates shall bear the seal of the said
school and the signature of its principal.
7. The officers of the said schvol shall consist of a principal and any
such assistants in the school and academic and musical departments and
in the domestic department as may be deemed requisite, to be chosen in
such manner and form as the said trustees may prescribe.
8. The said trustees may adopt such by-laws, rules and regulations,
not contrary to the laws of tlis state, as they deem proper.
9, The said trustees shall have power to fill any vacancy which may
occur in their body arising from death, resignation, inability or refusal
to act, removal from this ‘state, or other cause declared by the by-laws
suflicient to create a vacancy.
10. If at any time the said school shall be abandoned or cease to be
used for the purposes of this act, then all of its property, real and per-
sonal, shall, after reasonable notice to the public, be suld by the said
trustees by public auction upon such terms as they may prescribe, and
the proceeds of the sale thereof apportioned among the donors, contribu-
tors and subscribers to the said corporation, their heirs and distributees,
in proportion to the amount of their respective donations, contributions,
and subscriptions. This corporation shall succeed to, and hold for all
intents and purposes, all the rights, powers, and privileges of the Chat-
ham female Episcopal institute; and said corporation shall further hold
all the property, real and personal, howsoever given, devised, be-
queathed or acquired, whether in the name of the Chatham female
episcopal institute or in that of the Chatham Episcopal female school.
All the acts of said incorporation, in whatever name done and _ per-
formed, are hereby confirmed and validated.
11. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.
12. This act shall be in force from its passage.