The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-24

| given to the defendant corporation
/ vested in the corporate body COM
posed of its trustees, and not In the
| Methodist Church. and that such
I donations were held in trust by said
trustees for the education of those
who might attend the institutions
under their control and were not held
{ In trust for the Methodist Church;
and that the Board Of Trustees were
IA self-perpeutating corporation by
virtue of the absolute power vested
! by the charter in It's members TO
MI vacancies In their own body. 50
4 that the property ana funds. intrusted
to said defendant corporation could
, never become subject to ecclesiastical
ownership or control as might De
+ done II the Church or "a conference
has voice In naming trustees. Al
I the same time it was explained to the
4 directors of said company that The
institutions held and controlled by the
! defendant corporation were under the
auspices and patronage of the Metho-
dist Church or of the Virginia and
{ baltimore Conferences of said Church
wore closely affiliated with II. that at
T tt7at time all the trustees were Metho-
4. dists ara that always Il ma oriiy IF
the trustees had been Methodists and
that in these senses the said insti-
tuuons were Methodist and would all
/ ways continue to be such The fact
mat there WAS neither ecc!ex!ast.eaI
! ownership nor ecclesiastical control
OF said institutions was decisive with
said directors and with many others
and, relying in this respect upon the
terms of the charter of the defen-
daht corporation, they made liberal
! contributions to IL. viz: The said
H.
ment Company donated thirty-fivc
| thousand dollars. and many other sub
| stantial sums, The moneys subscribed
at that time by individuals firms and
| corporations in the town of Front
Royal and It's vicinity amounted 10
about stxty-five thousan nd dollars
10. That about the year 1891. the
| trustees of the defendant corpora
! ton, acting pursuant to the terms o.
It's charter as amended BY the Act
| of 1890. chapter 1877. had In contem-
! plation the establishment OF wo-
mans college at the city NJ Lynch
burg. Va. The Rivermont Improve
/ m"nt Company. a body corporate
| engaged in the -deXelnpmnnt Of real
estate in and near the said city Of
tynchburg. wes solicited on behalf OF
the said trustees of the defendant cor
| roratiuu To donate 10 1t land and
money to be used for founding such
college for women: hut said River
mont Company declined to make such
efoHdeiun on the ground that the m
! situations maintained and carried on
by the defendant rornoFa ton belonged
to the Methodist Church. or were cor
trolled by 1t, and the officers of said
IhVermont Company held that the
property and funds OF their stock
holders could not be properly donated
TO seetarian body. Thereupon the
oIilcers OF said company informed b5
| the representatives of the defendant
corporation that. while the institutions
conducted by II were under the aus
piees and patronage of the Virginia
ana Ba.tfmore Conferences of the
Methodist Church. said conferences.
or Church. did not own or control
said institutions nor the property ana
funds thereof, that said institutions.
property and funds were not held in
trust for the said conferences. or
,hurch' and that the trustees OF the
defendant corporation were an IN
dependent self perpetuating board
ana the representatives of the de.
PENDANT corporation exhibited to tn.
oricers OF said Rlvermont COMPANY
copy OF the charter of the trustees
OF RandoiphM Macon College In sinh
sanitation of their SAID. Representa-
lions, and said directors carefully
examined said charter, and fpdine
thet by lis terms the propertv ana
tuhds or said institutions were veste A
III Sala aeiehdant corporation. and in
"' o'her pody or person, and that
Shch property and FUNDS wera q, he
ai'-l'4 Ai4a applied by said defendant
corporation, for the education NJ
youth In science and literature " the
usethi arts agriculture and tho
learned and foreign languages and
10 no other use or trust ana v,a.-
t"ulariy That there was no use ".
trust for any religious or ecrtes,av,f.
cal BODY or denomination. thar the
control OF aaid institutions and +b5ie
property and funds was conr,i,t.5
'" tiie trustees OF said defendant car
w." t'"h ana 10 no other BODY. ar.
- 'i"i, or persons, and particular
~ tnat said charter directs tba, u,h,,.
vacancy occurs tn said derendsrt
corporation, 1.-THE ren1aintng ,r,,s,
or quorum of them. shall s,rent,,
III" vacancy" and that no coolest,
u,Ni PodN participated in the nan7ing
" t'u*tees' and thq' there were NJ
"th"thihatohnl tests applied Ia +rc
F'htu"n of Trustees. said djrac,err
Withdrew their Objections and Ia 49,,
So t+"itt . ri tie ~afd represcnta+ta,,,.
anu ~ sid i.rlns at thu ..a,-.,,,.
1no "phosgfiOr WITHIN saJff co,n W. =, ~ :.
tTaSed. and II made larpe or
e"Iua PIE EQUATIONS to the defenfan :
eoft ration And complainant shou.
uAto hoaf Hon 'hrt the dnnatiaua
"'"ue TO The defendant corporat{nn
~ the time and since by saio co..,
PanE and by individual. In the cit,
OF Lynchburs and vicinity amount r.
several hundred thousand dollars. and
thal all donations of said River,nopt
company, and large part of the
donations made by others, were 1nala
e*pressfV upon the faith. and be-
cause of the .erms OF the charter ar
SCI iortn in this paragraph. The ma ~
co'lese Tor women. now known "a
hahuolph-M Macon Woman's COLLAGE
was established "a contaminated and
u was founded and erected ana b.u
SINCE been enlarged, and has heen
ana ls now maintained princinailv
through and by means of the don..
ions made to it by said Rivcrmont
company and other under the cir~
- astah tfN-'tfd upon the consider,
IONS ser forth in this paragraph OF
ms bill of complaint.
| Al. Ihat residents OF the o;tv ~
Lyhchpurg, who donated MANY If e. =
Suostahtlal sums TO the defendant cor
duration for said RandoInh- Macon
al