Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-05-22

NEY COLLEGE, 1929.
AN ACT
For Incorporating the Trustees of Hdmpden Sud-
ney College, passed l7sS.
Sec. i. WHEREAS il is represented to the pre-
| sent General Assembly, that an Academy has beef
toundedin the county OF Prince Edward, s. which
hath been supported by the generous donations Of
lew public spirited citizens for several years
past, but that in order to make the advantages a.
| rising thereirom more permanent and diffusive,
certain privileges are essentially necessary Tor
conducting the same in future, to greater advan-
! tage, and this Assembly, warmly impressed with
| the important advantages arising to every free
state by diHusing useful knowledge amongst IFS
citizens and DESTROYS OF giving their patronage and
support 20 such Summaries OF learning, as may ap
pear to them calculated to promote this great OBJ
lject,
Sec. 2. DO hereby enact, That from and after
the passing OF this act, the said Academy shall OBJ
tain the name, and be called the College of Hamp-
den Sydney, and that the Rev. John Blair Smith,
Patrick Henry, William CabeU, SEN, Paul Car
| rington, Robert Lawson, James Madison, John
Nash, Nathaniel Venable, Everard Meade, joel
| Watkins, James venable, Francis Watkins, John
Morton, William Morton, Thomas Reade. William
Booker, Thomas Scott, Sen, James Allen, Charles
| Allen, Samuel Woodson Venable, Joseph Parke,
Richard Foster, Peter Johnston, Rev Richard San
key, Rev. John TODD, Rev. David Rice, and Rev.
Archibald M'Roberts, and their successors, are
hereby constituted body polite and corporate
| by the name of the President and Trustees of
Bampden Sydney College, who shall have per-
petual succession and a common zeal; and that
they and their successors, by the me aforesaid,
shall be able and capable in law 10 possess, pur-
| chase, receive and retain to them and their sue
cessors, forever, any lands, enemenS, rents, goods
or chattes, OF any kind whatsoever, which may
have been given already, or shall in future be Civ
en-, or purchased by them, TOR the use of the said
College; and the same to dispose OF In Whatsoever
| manner they shulI sdudge most beneficial for the
use thereof; and by the same name, TO sue and i'm
}plead, be sued and implicated, answer and be
swered In all Courts oil law and equity, and from
hme TO time, under their common seal, 70 make
and establish such bylaws rules and ordinances,
not being contrary to the constitution laws Of
this Commonwealth, as by them shall he thought
necessary tor the good order and government of
me professors, masters, and students OF the said
| College.
Sec. 8. find be ii further enacted, That the
said President and Trustees, any seven of them
shall have full power and authority to meet ut
such times as they shall think necessary for the
examination of any candidates for literary degrees
and they hereby empowered and authorized
to confer these degrees on such students as in
| their opinion shall merit the same, in as ample a
manner as any other College in America can do !;
and to grant testimonials thereof under their com
mon seals, signed by the PresPent and FIVE Of the
) Trustees az least; and that the President and
Trustees, or any seven OF them, arc hereby au-
thorized and required to meet at the said College
on some day, TO be appointed by the President on
or before the first day Of October next and then
and there TO elect and commission under their com.
mon seal, such professors and masters, as they
shall judge necessary for the purpose Of the in
stiution: and that in order to preserve in the
mids. Of the STUDENT that sacred love and attach
ment, which they should ever bear to the princi-
piles OF the present glorious revolution, the great
est care and caution shall be used, in eecting such
professors and masters, to the end that person
shall be elected unless the uniform tenor of his
conduct, manifess to the world his sincere afec-
ton for the liberty and independence Of the United
States Of America
Sec. f. find be it, further endcted, That the Pre-
sident and Trustees, or any ten of them, shall e.
! lect by ballot Treasurer for the said College
| who shall give bond aad security payable to the
Trustees and their successors, tor the faithful dis
| charge of the trust reposed in them; and shall
when required by the corporation render an ac-
count of all monies, goods, and other chattels re
| ceived and expended by him on account of, and
for the of the said College, and on failure and
refusal 10 do shall be subject to the ike pro-
ceedings are prescribed sy law in the case OF
Sheris falling to account for and pay into the rea.
sury the public taxes in their hands.
| Sec. s. find be it further enacted, That the
said Trustees, majority of them, shall have
power to remove or suspend the President, or any,
or all of the masters at any time, on good cause
shown, and to supply the vacancy, occasioned by
| such removal from oihce; and upon the death, re-
sgnation refusal to act, OF the President, or "a
ny of the Trustees, or when there shall be a va
cancy in any Of the proessorsbips il shall be law
| full for the remaining Trustees, or majority oil
| them, TO supply the same by new elections /,
shall be also lawful for the President or, in case
of death, resignation, or refusal in him TO act the
professors and masters for the time being or ma
jority OF them, TO call meeting of the Trustees
when he or they, as the case may be, shall see
cause to do-PrOpided nevertheless, That the
President and Trustees before they enter upon the
execution of the trust re posed in them by this Act
shall severally take the following OATH (or affirma
tion,) to be administered by justice OF the peace
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certified to the court of the said county, there 10
be recorded That is to say, 81, "a. b do swear
Tor affirm) that will TO the best of INV skill and
Judgment, faithfully and truly discharge the du-
ties required ofme by an Act for Incorporating the
Trustees OF Hampden Sydney College, without
favour, affection, or partisity-So help me COD
And that the clerk of the said Court for enter
ing the same, shall receive Of the Trustees, the
sum Of one Spanish milIed dollar.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Maj. James Morton, Prince Edward, Richard
". VenGbie, Esq. do, Col. G. Darlington,
ham Berkeley, Esq. Prince Edward, Henry A.
Watkins, Esq. Charlotte, Nm. vi. Watkins
Esq. do, Hon. I'm. II. CabeH, City OF Rich.
mond, Goodrich WiisOn, NJ. ID. Prince Edward
Rev John H. Rice, ID. ID. do, Thomas Miller,
Esq Powhatan, james Bruce, Esq. Halifax, Hen
~ e.. Watkins, Esq Prince Edward Col
James Madison, do, Req, Nm. s. Reid, Lynch.
burg, ViHidm s. Morton, M. u. Prince I'd.
ward, Samuel branch, Esq. Buckingham, John
miller, Esq. Cumberland, james FTfzgeyold
Esq. do, John r. Wilson, Esq. do, Hon. MI,
ham s. drcheT, Amelia, Wm. Cdrrington, Esq.
Halifax, Henry ~. Watkins, Esq. Prince Ed
ward, Nelson Page, Esq Cumberland, Nathan
iel f.. Venobie, Esq, Prince Edward, HENRY
Darlington, Esq. Charlotte, Iona. p. Cushing,
er-o6ieio, President ofhe College.
LAWS OF THE COLLEGE.
CRATER /.
offcero Of College.