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1802-3.

We come then to the act to establish an academy in the county
of Albemarle, and for other purposes. (Passed January 12, 1803)
Chap. 34 of Laws of Virginia December 1802.

"Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Wilson E. Nicholas,
Francis Walker, George Divers, John Nicholas, William Wardlow,
Thomas M. Randolph, John Carr, Dabney Carr, Peter Carr, Edward
Garland, Samuel Murrell, Charles Everitt, William D. Meriwether,
and Thomas W. Lewis, gentlemen, be, and they are hereby
constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The
Trustees of Albemarle Academy", and by that name shall have
perpetual succession and a common seal.

2. The said trustees and their successors, or a majority of them,
by the name aforesaid, shall be capable in law to purchase, receive
and hold to them and their successors forever, any lands, tenements,
rents, goods and chattels, of what kind soever, which may be purchased
by, or sold, devised or given to them for the use of the said
academy; and to sell or otherwise dispose of the same in such
manner as to them shall seem most conducive to the advantages of
the said academy.

3. (Empowers the trustees to sue and be sued; to make by-laws,
rules and regulations and to appoint a president and other officers,
erect buildings, etc.; to take and receive subscriptions and enforce
the same.)

4. (Provides for filling vacancies.)

5. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful
for the said trustees and their successors, or a majority of them, to
raise by lottery or lotteries, the sum of three thousand dollars, to be
applied by them towards the erection of buildings necessary for the
said academy.

6. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof." Vol.
2, Shepherd's Va. Stats. at Large, p. 427.