Chap. 335.—An ACT to incorporate the Northern Neck Industrial Academy.

Approved March 28, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That L. R. Ball
and S. B. Penn, of Lancaster county; J. Robinson and C. H. Carter, of
Richmond county; R. J. Laws and A. T. Johnson, of Westmoreland
county, and J. Corbin, of Essex county, and their successors duly elected,
be, and they are hereby, constituted a body corporate under the name and
style of the Industrial Academy, of the Northern Neck of Virginia, and
under the said name and style shall have perpetual succession, and may
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and may adopt a common seal,
and change or alter the same at pleasure, and may build and erect school-
houses, eating-houses, dormitories, and outhouses, and for that purpose
may acquire title to such real estate in either of the counties of West-
moreland, Richmond, Lancaster, or Northumberland as may be neces-
sary for their purposes, not to exceeg one hundred acres at any one time.

2. The said association shall at all times conduct the schools so erected
and opened for the purpose of instructing, without charge save for
tuition, the colored youth who enter the same the business and principles
of agriculture, or any mechanical trade, or any of the branches of English
education, and the affairs of the said association shall at no time be con-
ducted, or the funds thcreof at any time used for any other purpose or
purposes whatsoever.

3. The said corporation may adopt euch rules, regulations, or by-laws
as to matriculation of students, and may elect such officers as they mav
deem proper for the proper transaction of all business in line with the
objects hereinbefore set forth.

4. This charter may be amended, altered, or repealed at any time bv
the general assembly of the State.

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