CHAP. 130.--An ACT to incorporate the Cherrystone normal, agricultural andmechanical institute.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That J. B. Johnson, Arthur L. Boykin, Scott Wood, J. W. Johnson, Edward Ellis, T.. D. Jefferson, Harris Barrett, H. L. Phillips, Littleton Wharton, W. T. Williams, George F. Bragg, 0. L. Mitchell, and such others as may be associated with them, and their successors be, and are hereby, constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the board of trustees of the Cherrystone normal, agricultural and mechanical institute
; and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal; 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, encumber, receive, and retain to them and their successors forever, any lands, tenements, rents, goods, chattels, interest, or endowments of any kind whatsoever, which may be given or bequeathed to them, or be by them purchased for the use of an institution of learning to be called the Cherrystone normal, agricultural and mechanical institute, to be located at Cherrystone, Northampton county, Virginia: provided, the real estate and personal property does not exceed four hundred thousand dollars in value. They and their successors shall have power to transfer, convey, encumber, and dispose of the same in any manner whatsoever they shall adjudge most useful to the interests and legal purposes of said institution, and by their corporate name sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, may answer and be answered in all courts of law and equity.

2. The purposes of the said Cherrystone normal, agricultural and mechanical institute shall be as follows: For the instruction in the various common school, academic, and collegiate, and such other branches of training, the best methods of teaching the same, and the best mode of practical industry in its application to agriculture and the mechanic arts, and for carrying out of these purposes the said trustees may establish any departments or schools in the said institution.

3. The trustees, or a majority of them, shall choose by ballot a president, secretary, treasurer, and such other officers and teachers or agents as they shall deem necessary, and remove the same at pleasure, two-thirds of a quorum concurring in said removal. They shall also take bond from the treasurer, payable to the trustees of the Cherrystone normal, agricultural, and mechanical institute, in such penalty and with such security as they may deem reasonable, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, said duties to be prescribed by the said trustees or a majority of them. The said trustees may make contracts in behalf of said institution and in general, manage the affairs of the institution.

4. Whenever there shall be a vacancy in the board of trustees, from any cause whatever, death, resignation, removal, or refusal to act, the remaining trustees or a majority of them shall, on being notified by the president or secretary, supply the vacancy at the next annual meeting. It shall be lawful for an executive committee of five to call a meeting of the trustees, whenever they shall deem it expedient.

5. The board of trustees shall never be less than nine nor more than twenty-five, seven of whom shall constitute a quorum.

6. The trustees may adopt such rules, regulations, and by-laws, not contrary to the laws of the state, as they may deem necessary for the good government of the institution.

7. The trustees of the said institute shall select ten or more students with reference to their character and proficiency from the public free schools of Accomac and Northampton upon the recommendation of the county superintendents of the above named two counties, who shall have the privilege of attending said institute upon special terms to be fixed by said board of trustees.

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