Chap. 7.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2 and 4 of an act entitled “an
act to appoint a board of trustees for the Virginia Female Institute at Staun-
ton, and to provide for the future government of said institute,” approved
March 14, 1874, as amended by an act approved January 18, 1896.

Approved July 28, 1902.

Whereas, under the existing law serious difficulty is experienced by
said trustees in obtaining the attendance of the requisite quorums for
transaction of business at their meetings, to obviate which application is
made on behalf of said institute: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections two
and four of an act entitled an act to appoint a board of trustees for the
Virginia Female Institute at Staunton, and to provide for the future
government of said institute, approved March fourteenth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-four, as amended by an act approved January eigh-
teenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be further amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

§2. There shall be at least one regular meeting of said board of trus-
tees in each year at the Virginia Female Institute, in the city of Staunton,
or at such other place and at such time as fixed by said board. Any five
members, irrespective of the parts of the board to which they may belong,
may call a special meeting of the board, to be held at said institute, in
Staunton, and at such time as may be designated by a written or printed
notice duly mailed to the regular postoffice addresses of the other mem-
bers, or by publication in at least two newspapers of general circulation,
one of which shall be published in the diocese of Virginia and the other
in the diocese of Southern Virginia; the notice, if sent by mail, to be
forwarded at least two weeks before the meeting, and if by publication in
the newspapers, the first insertion in each paper to be at least two weeks
before the meeting, and the publication to be continued until the meet-
ing. Six members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any
business. The board of directors which the board of trustees are, by the
first section of this act, authorized to appoint shall consist of as many
members as the board of trustees, in a regular annual meeting assembled,
shall determine, who may be, in whole or in part, persons other than
members of the board of trustees, and they may all reside in one diocese,
or be selected from the dioceses of Virginia and Southern Virginia in
equal or unequal numbers as between the two. .The board of trustees
shall have power to enact by-laws for its own government, and also for
the government of the board of directors: provided, that they are not in
conflict with the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United
States.

84. Each part of said board of trustees shall have power to fill any
vacancies which may occur in the membership of such part arising from
death, resignation, inability, or refusal to act, or removal from the dio-
cese represented by such part. Any such vacaney shall be filled by that
part of the board in which it occurs alone without assistance from, or in-
terference by, the other part of the board; but the selection of a person
to fill the vacancy shall be made from two or more persons recommended
to fill such vacancies as may then exist, or, by anticipation, such as may
thereafter occur, by the council of the diocese to which the part of the
board of trustees in which the vacancies may occur shall belong; and in
this way cach part of the board may keep its membership full without
interference from the other. And any number of the trustees, or of the
directors, present at a meeting of their respective boards regularly con-
vened, though less than a majority or quorum of their respective bodies,
may adjourn the same over from time to time, or from place to place.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.