 | The University of Virginia record May, 1908 |  |
University Legislation.
A recent issue of the Charlottesville
Daily Progress contained the following
items relating to some changes made by
the present Virginia legislature in certain
Acts pertaining to the University:
"Lewis H. Machen, in his analysis of
acts of the assembly, says: Two acts,
approved March 13, Acts 1908, pages
378 and 380, which are emergency acts,
amend sections 1541 and 1556 of the
Code of Virginia, respectively. The
first gives to the university, in addition
to its other powers, all the corporate powers
given to corporations by the provision
of chapter 5 of the acts concerning
corporations, which became a law on
May 21, 1903, except to those cases
where, by the express terms of the acts,
it is confined to corporations created under
it; and the university is also given
the power to accept, execute, and
administrate any trust in which it may
have an interest under the terms of an
instrument creating a trust. The provision
that the rector and visitors of the university
shall be at all times subject to
the control of the General Assembly is
retained in the new statute.
"The second act amends section 1556,
so as to make it unlawful for the rector
and visitors of the university to issue its
obligations to be secured by deeds of
trust on its real estate without the consent
of the General Assembly. The old
law simply provided that they could not
contract debts without such consent."
The President's house on Carr's Hill is
being pushed rapidly toward completion.
When finished it will not only afford a
beautiful place of residence for the head
of the University, but it will also add
much to the attractiveness of the locality,
which has long been recognized as one
of the most desirable in college.
| The University of Virginia record May, 1908 | |