Chap. 68.—An ACT to incorporate NDodge’s Business College of Tazewell, Vir-
ginia.

Approved January 16, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That J. H. Dodge,
A. P. Gillespie, R. R. Henry, A. J. May, J. S. Moss, J. F. Hurt, J. H.
Stuart, J. A. Leslie, and W. C. Pendleton, be, and are hereby, created
and incorporated and made a body politic and incorporated under the
name and style of Dodge’s Business College, whose chief office shall be
at the town of Tazewell, in the State of Virginia, and whose chief busi-
ness shall be to conduct a business college, consisting of the following
seven departments—viz., commercial, shorthand, typewriting, bookkeep-
ing, telegraphy, penmanship, and normal, giving instruction and train-
ing in all branches of study appertaining to thorough courses in these
several departments, particularly in shorthand, typewriting, bookkeep-
ing, tclegraphy, penmanship, commercial law, banking, and the usual
English branches given by first-class business colleges, as may be detcr-
mined upon and provided for by the incorporators.

2. That the said incorporators shall constitute a board of trustees, and
have perpetual succession, and a common seal, which it may alter ot
amend at its pleasure, and may in its corporate name sue and be sued.
contract and be contracted with, purchase, hold, and grant estates, real
and personal, for its purposes, reccive endowments and create scholar-
ships, and make regulations for the government of all persons and pro
perty under its authority for the management of its estates and the duc
and orderly conduct of its affairs: provided, that said board shall not ai
any time own more real estate than ten acres of land, and that its pro
perty, real and personal, shall not at any time exceed in value five thou.
sand dollars.

3. That the said board of trustees shall have annual and special mect-:
ings, as it may determine upon, and at such meetings shall provide fo
the conduct of the college in the way and manner that it sees fit in ever
particular, especially in adopting rules and regulations for the conferrin
upon its students such diplomas, degrees, and certificates, or other evi
dences of graduation, distinction, or proficiency: provided, that th
degrees conferred by the college shall be those of bachelor of commercia
law (B. C. L.) and master of accounts (M. A.).

4. That the officers of said college shall be a president and a secretar
and treasurer, and such other officers as the board shall elect, and inves
with powers from time to time, as it deems necessary, for the proper con
duct of its affairs, and for the carrying out of the plans of said college.

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