Chap. 259.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 73, Code of 1887, relating to
general provisions as to colleges and academies and other institutions, of the
Miller Manual Labor School and the Medical College of Virginia, as amended
and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act requiring educational institutions re-
ceiving State appropriations to make annual reports to the board of education,”
approved January 12, 1888, and an act entitled “an act to provide for the ex-
penses of the boards of visitors of the institutions of learning,” approved March
4, 1892.

Approved May 16, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chapter
seventy-three, Code of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, relating to
general provisions as to colleges and academies and other institutions, of
the Miller Manual Labor School and the Medical College of Virginia, as
amended and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act requiring educational
institutions receiving State appropriations to make annual report to the
board of education,” approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-eight, and an act entitled “an act to provide for the expenses of
the boards of visitors of the institutions of learning,” approved March
fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows: ;

§ 1637. That it shall be the duty of the president or chairman of the
board of visitors or trustees of every State institution which is educa-
tional in its character to cause to be made out by the superintendent,
president, principal, or other proper officer of such institution, and for-
warded to the office of the superintendent of public instruction on or be-
fore the first day of October of each year a report for the year ending
the thirtieth of June preceding. Said report shall set forth the condi-
tion and progress of said institutions ; the number of professors, assistant
teachers, and other officers, and the compensation of each; the whole
number of students in attendance; the courses of instruction, academic,
professional, or technical; the means and methods of instruction; the
number of students in the different classes; the terms of tuition; the
number of students admitted free of charge for tuition; the kind and
amount of all funds and endowments yielding an income; the annual
income from all sources, and the items thereof; the amount of expendi-
tures, and the items thereof; and such other information as may be
deemed necessary to a full exhibit of the affairs and conditions of said
institutions. Said reports shall he embodied in the annual report of the
superintendent of public instruction to the board of education, to be by
the president of said board laid before the gencral assembly of Virginia.
All acts and parts of acts requiring reports of said institutions to be made
otherwise than as specified in this act are hereby repealed.

$1637a. That the boards of visitors of the University of Virginia,
Virginia Military Institute, Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical Col-
lege. State Female Normal School, Virginia Normal and Collegiate In-
stitute. and William and Mary College Normal Male School shall re-
ceive their actual expenses (itemized) incurred in the discharge of their
duties in attending the meetings of said boards.

$1638. Penalty, if report not made.—Tf no such report is made from
any college or academy which receives any portion of the revenue of the
literary fund, or to which any loan has been made out of the said fund,
the second auditor shall withhold (until the report is made) the pay-
ment of such portion of the literary fund, or proceed to enforce pay-
ment of the said loan.

§ 1639. Payment of interest on bonds of State held by colleges, and
so forth.—The second auditor is authorized and directed to draw upon the
public treasury in favor of the proper authorities of any incorporated
college, institution, or seminary of learning, or manual labor school, in
this State, for all interest which has accrued, or may hereafter accrue,
and as the same may fall due, upon all obligations of the Commonwealth,
or of the James River and Kanawha Company, guaranteed by the Com-
monwealth, held by or for such college, institution, or seminary of learn-
ing, or manual labor school, or to which they were entitled, on the first
day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, so long as they may
continue to hold the same: provided, that no interest shall be paid upon
any bonds, the payment of which is forbidden by the Constitution.

$1640. Exchange of coupon for registered bonds.—The proper au-
thorities of any incorporated college, institution, or seminary of learning,
or of any manual labor school, in this State, may exchange any consol
coupon bonds issued under the act of the general assembly, approved
March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, held by or on be-
half of such college, institution, seminary, or school, for funded regis-
tered consol bonds of the same class under said act. Any college, insti-
tution, seminary, or school, making such exchange shall have the same
rights and privileges as to funded registered consol bonds so taken as
they have under the preceding section.

§ 1641. Cancellation of coupon bonds.—All consol coupon bends, with
the coupons attached, so surrendered in exchange shall be cancelled by
the treasurer of the State, in the presence of the commissioners of the
sinking fund, at the time such exchange is made, and be carefully pre-
served in his office. The second auditor and the treasurer shall preserve
lists of the consol coupon bonds and coupons so surrendered.

§ 1642. Scholarships.—The board of visitors of the University of Vir-
ginia, the trustecs of Washington and Tee University, the board of visi-
tors of the Virginia Military Institute, and the corporate authorilies of
all colleges in the State, may establish scholarships in their respective in-
stitutions, under such regulations as they may prescribe.

§ 1643. Investment of funds therefor.—Whenever any person shall de-
posit in the treasury of the State, or bequeath money to be so deposited,
or devise or bequeath property to he sold and the proceeds to be co de-
posited, for the benefit of any such institution, to such an amount that
the interest thereof will be sufficient to educate and maintain thereat one
or more cadets or students, the said fund shall be invested in Stale bonds,
in the name and for the benefit of said institution.

$1644. Donations irrevocable; right of nomination by donor.—Such
donation shall be irrevocable, but the donor, or his heirs, or their guar-
dian, if they be under twenty-one years of age, shall have the right to
nominate and place in such institution one or more cadets or students,
according to the regulations aforesaid.
§ 1645. Provision, if donor fail to nominate—If such donor, or his
heirs, or such guardian, shall fail for one year to nominate as aforesaid,
the said board of visitors, trustees, or corporate authorities may appro-
priate the income of the said fund to the education and maintenance of
indigent cadets or students, to be selected by them from the State at
large.

$1646. Scholarships by alumni.—The society of alumni of any in-
stitution aforesaid may provide for and maintain a scholarship therein,
by annual contributions, under such regulations as may be prescribed as
aforesaid.

§ 1647. Who prohibited from making contracts with State institutions,
and so forth.—No person who is a member of any board of visitors of any
State institution, or an employee or agent thereof, or a trustee of any pub-
lic trust or fund, or a salaried officer of any such State institution, or of
any such public trust or fund, shall contract, or be interested in any con-
tract, with such institution, or with the governing authority of such pub-
lic trust or fund in any manner or form, for furnishing supplies, or for
performing any work for said institution, or for said governing authority
of said trust or fund. Any person violating the provisions of this scction
shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars. .

§ 1648. Register of State property.—The chief officer of every State
institution shall keep a book in which he shall cause to be registered all
the property of the State at such institution, with a correct description
thereof, for the information of the board of directors or visitors, and
others interested. Any officer failing to comply with this section shall
forfeit fifty dollars.

$ 1649. Miller Manual Labor School continued.—The Miller Manual
Labor School of Albemarle shall be continued, and the members of the
board of education, and their successors in office, and the second auditor,
and his successors in office, shall be, and remain, a corporation by the
name of “the Miller Manual Labor School of Albemarle.”

$1650. Certain statutes affecting it continued in force—-The sccond,
third, and fifth clauses of section one, and the second section of the act
entitled “an act to give effect to a compromise of the litigation in respect
to the construction and effect of the will of Samuel Miller, deceased, and
to establish the manual labor school provided for in the twenty-fifth
clause of said will,” approved February twenty-fourth, cighteen hundred
and seventy-four; the act approved February nincteenth, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-four, amending and re-enacting the fourth clause of the
second section of the act approved April second, eighteen hundred and
seventy-seven, relating to the Miller Manual Labor School of Albemarle;
and the act to authorize the board of the said Miller Manual Labor School
to convert coupon bonds into registered bonds, approved August twenty-
third, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, shall severally continue in
force.

§ 1651. Medical College of Virginia continued.—The Medical College
of Virginia shall be continued, and the-visitors thereof, and their succes-
sors, shall be, and remain, a corporation under the name and style of
“The Medical College of Virginia”; and all acts passed in respect thercto,
which are in force on the day before this Code takes effect, shall continue
in force, subject to modification, alteration, or repeal, at the pleasure of
the general assembly.