Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-01-24

offebruary, and the fourth day OF july IA each
year, to be held AT the university and their
first meeting shall be at the university within
three months after their appointment, and Il
majority shall be necessary TO transact bust.
ness, Dnt It smaller number may adjourn from
time 10 ttniv, until a board be formed. they
shall appoint rector from their own bod, a.,
shall preside and Sign the minutes OF all their
proceedings, which shalt be al, avs he'd sul-
Ject TO the inspection ofthe legislature they
SHAH appoint secretary, who shall faithfully
record all the proceedings OF the trustees
The trustees thus elected, shall be body peii.
TIC anu corporate With power to sue and lie
sued; plead aud De inpleaded /; TO acquire tt
Tie 10 real aud personal property, by pm chase,
devise on donation, from any person or per-
sons, body polite or corr crate Provided That
the property held bv the trustees does rot al
amy tune, exceed in value aud amount, the
sam OF dollars They shall have rover
10 prescribe the sciences to be taught in the u
University; the number of professors aud their
salaries to appoint professors aud to dis
place them for n,alteasance or nonfeasa,,ce or
incapaeity, or for amy other cause satisiacto.
~ 10 the said trustees they shall have power
10 appoint Durser aud prescribe his salary,
as also that OF their clerk and 10 displace
them, or eitter of them TO direct the manner
IN when tue funds OF % the university" shall
DC applied: and 10 enact, repeal or alter such
rnicS, regulations aud bylaws for The govern
ment OF the professors and the pupils of the II.
niNerSIty, as they shall think proper and neces
Stry: PTOrtded hoCerer, such rules regulations
or bylaws Shall not be inconsistent with the
laws or constitution of this commonwealth or
OF the United States ARd ,gorided also. no
PiotessOiship OF theology shall be established
IN the SAID university, or IN either OF the aca-
DENIES, OF any preference iii the selection of
professors be shewn To amy religious sect The
Stid trustees ave hereby authorized 10 receive
from inc president aud directors of tie lite.
rary fund thrc their burser ANNUALLY. the sum
OF dollars and the said president and
dsrecioIS are hereby authorised and requn ed
annually, TO pay over ia the burst off, the IL
diversity OF his ertlcr, the aforesaid sun, OF
Gollais +: Prctided, such payment shall
notcommcuce uHtii tue ti.N OF
neat II any trustee shall die, remove oat of
TINS commonwealth, resign OF iail to act Tor
eight months successfully, dutinr tlie recess
OF the General Assembly, the reulsininr trus.
tees vi majority Of them, shalt supply such
vacancy.
s. ARd be it further eaactcd, That on the
day OF November al each year, the trustees of
the university, the academies and the prima.
~ schools, shaIl eNilhit 80 the president aud
directors OF the literary fund, a detailed state
ment Of the condition OF their respective
school, academy, or university, containing the
number OF scholars and professors, or reach
erS tile subjects m which the Scholars an.
instructed the amount of the funds Of tss
school, academy, or university, how invested.
ana tile nett annual revenue derived from tAe.
same the value OF the buildings aud siich ge-
neral remarks as they may deem proper ~
make.
8. Aud for the purpose ofavaling the COM
monweaith OF those talents which are lost to
the country, from thepoverty OF many parents
forolddipg their eXpending sum sufficient TO
educate their offspring Be it further eusefed
hat on the hrst day of April in each wear
the trustees OF the primary school in each
county, shall assemble at their courthouse. Sc.
lect from among the boys who have been three
years at any of the primary schools. one of the
inGSt intelligent, discreet aud studiOus 10 be
by them sent, with the consent of the parent
or guar dian, II any, 10 the academy established
IN the district wherein such county may be
there II recelved) to be educated for the space
OF four years at the public expense. When
the trustees OF each county have thus sent 10
any academy boy as aforesaid, the trustees OF
such academy shall, upon tile order of their
president, assemble at their respective acade-
mics, and after maturely aud properly exami.
ming each boy thus sent, select from among
them three OF the most intelligent aud best i'm.
structed, TO be educated and supported al such
academy, Tree from expense, and at the public
charge, out OF the fund directed by this act, to
be paid TO such academy, and to be furnished
with books and every thing necessary to pur-
sue their studies, out of the same fund, and to
remain a such academy four wears
10. The trustees of each academy shall on
tile FIRST day OF May i'm every wear meet at
their respective academy, q from among those
boys who may have attended their academy
Tor four years, select one of the most intelli-
gent, improved, discreet and studious to be by
them sent, with the consent of his parent or
guardian, if any, to the university, to be by
the trustees of said university there received
and educated, supported and supplied with
the necessary books and means OF pursuing his
studies, for five years, at the public expense
ont OF the fund appropriated by this act 10 the
endowment Of the said university.
IL. And be HJuTther eaaeted, That the collie
ges of" William and Mary Hampden and
sydney" and " w Washington" and the - en-
trail College," shall each receive annually. the
sum of dollars oHt of the revenue Of the
literary fund, to be by the visitors or trustees
OF those colleges applied 10 the purpose of such
proiessorSmp III the said colleges, as are atpre-
sent, or may hereafter be established therein
PTorided, horerer, nothing herein contained
shall be so construed as to give 10 the General
Assembly any other. or additional control over
The funds OF those colleges, than thcy atprescut
possess PTOcided further, Z hat the General
Assembly may, from time TO time, require the
said colleges to have educated and supported
for Tour years out of the sum of
dpprOpTatedby this act, number of poor
toys not exceeding three: ARd proUided alsO,
That The sum hereby appropriated TO the said
colleges, shall not be paid over to the trustees
or visitors Of the same until after the
day of next, and ii either of those col
leges shall he received as the uHiYersity no
appropriation made 70 such college shall take
effect
II. The trustees or visitors Of the said cole
ges, shall annually receive the said sum of
dollars, and the president and directors of the
literary fund shall annually pay TO the said
trustees or visitors, or to their order, the said
sum, and they shall annually, on the day of
account for the manner in which the
said sum shall have been by them disbursed
or applied.
10. This act shall commence and be i'm force
from and after the day OF next
Documents accompanying the preceding Blu.
No. I.
Res0lced That The chairman of the commit
tee of schools aud colleges be requested to call
on the board OF directors of the literary fund
for statement OF all the money belonging 10
that fund, whether it be in stock, securities or
cash, and the probable sum which will vet be
obtained from the government of the United