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1885-86.

Chapter 249. An Act to repeal on Act entitled "an act providing
for a new board of Visitors for the University of Virginia,"
approved April 14, 1882, and to amend and re-enact sections 2, 4
and 5, of Chapter 80 of the Code of 1873. Approved February 26,
1886.

"1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
act entitled "an act providing for a new board of visitors of the
University of Virginia, approved April 14th. 1882, be and the same
is hereby repealed.

2. That Sections two, four and five of Chapter 80 of the Code
of 1873, be and the same are hereby amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

"2. The governor, between the first day of January, 1886, and
the first day of March 1886, shall, by and with the consent of the
senate, appoint nine persons as visitors of the said university, three
of whom shall be from the division of the state in which the
university is located, and two from each of the other grand divisions
of the state. The term of office of all such members shall commence
on the first day of May, 1886. The terms of office of four
such members (one from each grand division of the state) to be
designated by the governor at the time of their appointment shall
expire on the 28th. day of February, 1888, and the terms of office
of the other five shall expire on the 28th. day of February 1890.
The governor, during the sixty days preceding the days when the
term of office of the several members of the board expire by limitation
as aforesaid, shall, by and with the consent of the senate, appoint,
to fill the vacancies so to be occasioned, persons whose terms
of office shall in all cases be for four years from that day. And
thereafter, during the sixty days preceding the days when the term
of office of the several members of the board will expire by limitation
as aforesaid, the governor, by and with the consent of the
senate, shall appoint, to fill the vacancies so to be occasioned, persons
whose terms of office shall be for four years from the day their
immediate predecessors' terms expired. Vacancies occasioned otherwise
than by the expiration of the term of office, shall be filled
by the governor for the unexpired term, subject to the confirmation
or rejection of the senate at its next session. The members of the
board shall always be apportioned among the several grand divisions
of the state, as first herein indicated; and the members shall in all
cases hold over after the expiration of their terms of office until their
successors are appointed and qualified.

"4. The board of visitors shall meet at the university at least
once a year, and at such other times as they shall determine, the

days of meeting to be fixed by them; but the board first appointed
under this act shall meet at least once between the first day of
May, 1886, and the 29th. day of June, 1886. The board, at their
first day of meeting after the first day of May, 1886, and at their
first meeting after the 28th. day of February in every fourth year
thereafter, shall appoint from their own body a rector, who shall
preside at their meetings. At the same time they shall appoint a
secretary to the board. In the obsence of the rector or secretary at
any meeting, the board may appoint a president or secretary pro
tempore, and vacancies in the office of rector or of secretary may be
filled by the board for the unexpired term. Special meetings of the
board may be called by the rector or any three members. In either of
said cases notice of the time of meeting shall be given to every member,
and five members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
of business.

"5. At every regular annual meeting of the board, they shall
appoint an executive committee, for the transaction of business in
the recess of the board, consisting of three members, to serve for
the period of one year, or until the next regular annual meeting,
whose duty it shall be to meet at the university at least two days
before the regular annual meeting of the board, and on some day
not later than the 15th. day of October in every year.

3. The present board of visitors shall continue to act and discharge
their duties as such until the first day of May, 1886, and
thereafter until after their successors are appointed and qualified.

4. This act shall be in force from its passage." Acts 1885-6,
pp. 260.