The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-03-06
Colored Seminary.

The following is a text Of the bill incor-
porating the sColored Protestant Episco-
pal Theological Seminary and High School
in Virginia, y which has been reported by
the committee on General Laws:
"Be 1t enacted by the &c neral Assembly
of Virginia, that Francis M. Whittl9. Al
fred M. Randolph, Churchill J. Gibson.
Claudius r. Harris, James Saul, Giles B.
Cooke, William l.. thinner, Jas. S. Gill
liam, jr., r. Eugene Davis, John l.. Will
liams, Joseph Wilmer and Jas. FL. Skinner
be and they are hereby constituted a body
polite and corporate, by the name and
style of the trustees of the colored Profess
tant Episcopal Theological Seminary and
High School in Virginia, and by thatname
shall have perpetual succession and COM
mon seal may sue and be sued, plead and
be implicated with power to hold, receive
and purchase, to them and their successors,
forever, lands, tenaments, money land other
chattels, and dispose of and manage the
same as shall seem best for the said semi
nary and school; provided that the lands
so held and acquired shall not exceed one
hundred and fifty acres nor the money and
other chattelS the sum Of five hundred
thousand dollars and provided further,
that the majority of said trustees, or their
successors, may at any time hereafter in
crease the number of trustees to twenty.
and that not less than majority of the
trustees for the time being, shall be suffi-
Gent to authorize the sale OF mortgage of
any real estate belonging to said institu-
tion.
2. The said trustees and their successors
shall have power to appoint a president,
treasurer, secretary, professors. tutors, and
such other officers as they may deem
proper. and to make and establish. from
time to time, such bylaws, rules and regu-
lations (not contrary to the laws of this
State or of the United States) as they may
judge to be proper for the good govern
ment of said institution A majority of
the trustees shall constitute a board for
the transaction of business, and any va
cancy or vacancies amongst the trustees,
occasioned either by death, resignation or
shall be supplied by appointment of the
board. The treasurer shall receive all
moneys accruing to the seminary and high
school, or property delivered to his care,
and shall pay or deliver the same to the
order of the board. Before entering upon
the discharge Of his duties, he shall give
bond, with security, and in such penalty
as the board may direct, made payable to
the trustees for the time being, and their
successors, conditioned for the faithful
performance of his duty, under such rules
and regulations as may be adopted by the
board and it shallbe lawful for the trus-
tees to obtain a judgment for the amount
thereof, or for any special delinquency in
CURED by said treasurer, on motion, in any
court of record in this commonwealth,
against the said treasurer and his security
or securities, his or their executors or adj
ministrators, upon giving ten days notice
of such motion.
8. The said board of trustees shall have
the power, either .by themselves or their
agents, to take and to receive subscrip tions
for said institutions and in case any per-
son shall fail to pay his or her subscription
to enforce the payment thereof by war
rant before a magistrate. or by motion in
any court of record in this commonwealth,
according to the amount Of such subscrip-
lions, giving ten days notice of such mo-
tiOn.
4. This act shall be in force from it's
passage.