Chap. 134.—An ACT to incorporate the Union co-operative college, at Bedford
City, Virginia.

Approved February 14, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there be.
and is, hereby ereated and established at Bedford City, in the county
of Bedford, in this commonwealth, a school to be known as the Union
co-operative college, wherein pupils of one or both sexes may be boarded
and taught the academic branches, together with the fine and industrial
arts.

2. That William A. Parker, Dan E. Parker, O. C. Rucker, Mary B.
Beaufort, W. S. Royall, and such other persons as they may associate
with them, not to exceed seven in number, be, and are; hereby constituted
and made a body politic under the name and stvle of the trustees of the
Union co-operative college, to be located at Bedford City, Virginia, and
by that name shall have perpetual suecession and a common seal, and
may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or
equity, and by the name aforesaid they and their successors shall be
capable in law, and shall have full power and authority to acquire.
hold, possess, purchase, receive, and retain to them and their successors
any lands, tenements, and hereditaments necessary for the purpose of
said college, not exceeding fifty acres. And the said trustees shall have
full power to fill all vacancies in said board occasioned by resignation
or otherwise, and power to receive and hold personal property, ‘by gift
or otherwise, for the use and purpose of said college, not exceeding
twenty-five thousand dollars, which personal estate they shall have power
to transfer, convey, and dispose of in any manner they shall deem most
useful to the interest and legal purpose of said college.

3. The said Union co-operative college shall be under the control and
management of said trustees and their successors, who shall appoint
a president and all other necessary officers, professcrs, and teachers in
the said institution, and have the power to remove the same; and the
said trustees shall, from time to time, make such by-laws, rules, and
regulations, consistent with the laws of the state, for the government of
those under their authority, for the management of its estates and
properties, and the due and orderly conduct of its affairs.

4+. The said board of trustees shall have power, either by themselves
or their agents, to take and reccive subscriptions for the said college,
and in case any person shall fail to pay his or her subscription, to enforce
the pavment thereof by law.

The board of trustees shall hold its annual mecting in the month
of Tite during the closing exercises of the college session in each year,
and shall meet at such other times as may be prescribed by the by-laws
of said board.

6. That it shall be lawful for the trustees of any school district of
any county in this state to pav out of the district school fund the tuition
charges of such pupils of their district as propose to become teachers,
and of such teachers as may, from time te time, attend upon the teach-
ers’ training course of said college.

7%. The said trustees, in connection with the faculty of said college,
shall have the power to confer such diplomas and distinctions in schol-
arships as they may think best calculated to promote the cause of edu-
cation. Also to establish and provide for the maintaining of one or
more scholarships at said college, and to do such other acts as may tend
to the promotion of the interests of education and the development of
ihe fine and industrial arts.

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