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1855-56.

Chapter 91. An Act to increase the number of State Students
at the University of Virginia. Passed March 12, 1856.

"Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that the second clause
of the sixth section of Chapter 79 of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: Paragraph 6,
Second—To the University of Virginia $15,000—subject however,
to the reservation, under laws now in force, of such portions thereof
as may be required to meet any liability incurred by the Literary
fund on account of the University, and also of such other portion
thereof as the legislature may at anytime hereafter direct to be
applied to the payment of the principal or interest of loans heretofore
made to the university from the Literary fund, or from other
sources, and for the payment of which loans the annuity of $15,000
has been or shall be pledged in pursuance of any act heretofore or
hereafter passed. But the annuity is upon condition that the said
institution, during its continuance, shall educate 50 young men,
(above the age of 17) one from each senatorial district, if there be
applicants, and if not, from the State at large, without charge for
tuition, use of the laboratories, lecture rooms, public halls or dormitories;
to be selected by the visitors and faculty, with reference to
the character and capacity of the applicants, and the inability of the
parent or pupil to furnish the means of education, upon such
testimonials as may be presented. The said young men shall each
sign an engagement to teach as private tutors, or in some school or
academy in this state for the term of two years, after leaving the
University, in consideration of the education there received".

2. This act shall be in force from the first day of July, 1856.
Acts of 1855-6, p. 79.

Chapter 92. An Act to authorize the Visitors to increase the
number of professors at the University of Virginia. Passed March
12, 1856.

"1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that the 6th. Section
of the 83rd. Chapter of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows: Paragraph 6. The said board
shall be charged with the care and preservation of all the property
belonging to the University. They shall appoint as many professors
as they deem proper, and with the assent of two-thirds of the
whole number of the visitors, may remove any professor. They
may prescribe the duties of each professor and the course and mode
of instruction. They may appoint a bursar and proctor, and employ

any other agents or servants, regulate the government and discipline
of the students, and the renting of the hotels and dormitories, and
generally, in respect to the government and management of the
University, make such regulations as they may deem expedient, not
being contrary to law".

2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Acts 1855-6,
p. 80.