Chap. 193.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incor-
porate the Southern seminary at Bowling Green, Virginia, approved Feb-
ruary 5, 1900, and to add to said act additional sections.

Approved February 15, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That there be,
and is, hereby established, in the town of Bowling Green, in the county of
Caroline, Virginia, a seminary of learning for the instruction of girls
and young ladies in the various branches of science and literature, music,
painting, the useful arts, and in the languages.

2. That the said seminary shall be known as the Southern seminary.

3. That Paul Whitehead, J. Powcll Garland, J. J. Lafferty, C. E.
Watts, R. T. Wilson, W. V. Tudor, Isaac Canter, Garrett Anderson, A.
E. Kellam, R. O. Peatross, William F. Hayes, J. T. Mastin, J. P. Stump,
and such other persons as may be elected as their associates and succes-
sors in office, be, and are, hereby constituted and appointed trustees of
said seminary, who (and their successors) shall be a body, politic and
corporate, by the name of the trustees of the Southern seminary, who
shall have a perpetual succession and a common seal, and by the name
aforesaid they and their successors shall be capable in law to possess,
purchase, receive, and retain to them and their successors forever any
lands, tenements, rents, goods, chattels, or interest of any kind whatever
which may have been already given, or which shall be hereafter given or
purchased by them for the use of said seminary, and to dispose of the
same in any way whatsoever that they shall adjudge most useful to the
interest and legal purposes of the institution, and by the same name to
sue and implead, be sued and impleaded, to answer and be answered in
all the courts of law and equity; and under their common seal to, from
time to time, make and establish such by-laws, rules and ordinances, not
contrary to the laws and constitution of this commonwealth, as shall by
them be thought essential to the good order and government of the
president, professors, teachers, and pupils of said seminary.

4. That the trustecs of the Southern seminary shall elect the president
or principal of the said seminary, and shall sclect and engage the pro-
fessors and teachers and fix their salaries, and shall have the power to
remove or suspend the president or principal of the said Southern semi-
nary, or any one or more of the teachers or professors, whenever in their
judgment the best interest of the said institution shall require such action.

5. That the trustees, or anv seven of them (which number shall con-
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business), shall have power to
mect at such times as they think necessary, and should there be less than
seven at that meeting. they may adjourn from day to day, or to any future
dav, until a quorum shall be had.

6. That the said trustees, or a quorum of them, shall annually elect
a treasurer of the said seminary, who shall give bond, with approved
security. payable to the trustees by their corporate name aforesaid, and
their successors, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of
his said office, and shall render an account of all moneys, goods and chat-
tels received and expended by him on account of, and for the use of, said
seminary.

7. That the trustees of the Southern seminary shall have the power
to fill any vacancy caused by the death, resignation, removal, or suspen-
sion of the president or principal, or of any professor or teacher of said
institution ; and shall also have power to fill any vacancy in the board of
trustees caused by the death, removal, or refusal to act of any trustee.

8. That whenever any trustee shall absent himself from three succes-
‘sive meetings of the board of trustees, having been duly notified of sucn
meeting, without assigning a sufficient reason therefor, the trustees, or a
quorum thereof, shall have power, by an entry on their minutes, to declare
his seat vacant, and proceed to elect his successor to fill said vacancy.

9. That there shall be an annual stated meeting of said board of trus-
tees at such time as may be fixed by them, and called meetings at such
other times as said board may appoint.

10. That the said board of trustees shall never be less than twelve
nor more than twenty-eight.

11. That the president and trustees of said seminary, before entering
on the duties of their several offices, shall take the following oath or
affirmation: I (S. B.) do swear (or affirm) that I will, to the best of my
ability, discharge the duties required of me as trustee (or president) of
the Southern seminary, according to the act of incorporation, without
partiality, favor, or affection. So help me God.

12. The trustees shall have the power (if, in the judgment of a ma-
jority of the board of tristees, it be for the best interests of the Southern
seminary) to remove the said institution from Bowling Green, Virginia,
to such other location within the territory of the Virginia or Baltimore
conferences, north of the James river, as may be selected: provided, how-
ever, that no vote shall be taken by the board of trustees on the question
of the removal of the said institution until due notice shall have been
given to all the members of the board of the time and place for the con-
sideration of the question of removal: and an affirmative vote on the
said proposition, before it is effective, must receive a majority of the said
board of trustees.

13. That the trustees of the Southern seminary, for the use of the said
institution, may issue bonds not in excess of five thousand dollars, in de-
nominations of fifty dollars each, payable at any time, without interest,
at the said Southern seminary in tuition; but not more than twenty per
centum of the face value of said bonds shall be payable in any one year,
unless the obligors elect to pay more.

14. All acts and parts of act inconsistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.

15. This act shall pe in force from its passage.