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1816.

We next come to the incorporation of "The Central College" by
Chap. 75 of the Acts of 1816, passed Feb. 14, 1816.

1. "Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That there shall be
established in the County of Albemarle, at the place which has been,
or shall be elected by the Trustees of Albemarle Academy, and in
lieu of such Academy, an institution, for the education of youth, to
be called, "The Central College", which shall be established, governed
and administered as follows:

2. The Governor of this Commonwealth for the time being
shall be the Patron of the said College, and shall have power to
appoint the visitors thereof in the first instance, and to fill up such
vacancies in the board of visitors as may exist afterwards from time
to time.

3. There shall be six visitors, who shall hold their offices each
for the term of three years, if he shall so long demean himself well;
of which the Chancellor of the district shall be the competent judge.

4. The said board of visitors shall have two stated meetings in
every year, in the said college; to-wit; on the day of the commencement
of the Spring term of the Albemarle Circuit Court, and on
the day of the commencement of the Fall term of the said Circuit
Court; and such occasional meetings as may be called from
time to time by any three members, giving effectual and timely
notice to the others; and if, from any cause, the said visitors
do not attend the said stated meetings, or such occasional meetings
as may be called from time to time, the said meetings may
be adjourned from day to day, until a general meeting shall be had.

5. They, or a majority of them, shall have power to appoint a
Treasurer and Proctor; to establish professorships, prescribe their
duties, and the course of education to be pursued; determine the

salaries, and accommodations they shall receive from the College,
and the perquisites from their pupils; to lay down rules for the
government and discipline of the students; for their subsistence,
board and accommodation, and the charges to which they shall be
subject for these, and for tuition; to prescribe and control the
duties and proceedings of all officers, servants and others, with
respect to the buildings, lands and other property of the College, and
to the providing subsistence, board, accommodations, and all necessaries
for the students and others appertaining to the same; and to
fix the allowance and emoluments for their salaries; and, in general,
to direct and do all matters and things which to them shall seem
best for promoting the purposes of the institution, and for securing,
improving and employing its property; which several functions may
be exercised by them in the form of by-laws, rules, orders, instructions,
or otherwise as they shall deem proper.

6. There shall be a Treasurer, to be appointed by the visitors, to
hold his office during their pleasure; whose duty it shall be to receive
all monies which shall become due, or accrue to the college; to pay
all monies which shall be due from it, according to such directions,
general or special, as shall be given by the board of visitors, and to
render his accounts at such times, in such forms, and to such persons,
as they shall require or to themselves.

7. There shall be a proctor, to be appointed by the visitors, to
hold his office during their pleasure. In him, in trust for the college,
shall be vested, transmissible to his successors, the legal estate in all
property of the College, whether in possession, in interest, or in
action; and he shall have authority to maintain the same in all suits,
as plaintiff or defendant; which suits shall not abate by the determination
of his office, but shall stand revived in the name of his
successor; he shall be capable in law, and in trust for the College,
of receiving subscriptions and donations, real and personal, of purchasing,
receiving and holding, transmissible to his successor, all
property, real and personal, in possession, interest or action.

8. It shall be his duty to superintend, manage, preserve, and improve
all the property of the College, in possession, interest or action,
to erect, preserve, and repair the buildings, improvements, and possessions;
to provide subsistence and other necessaries, and to direct and
control the due and economical dispensation of them; to employ
and control all agents, servants and others necessary for the works

or the services praedial or menial of the institution; and in all these
functions he shall act conformably with the provisions and principles
established by the visitors, of whose laws, regulations and
orders he shall have the general execution, when not addressed to
any other person.

9. And be it further enacted, That the rights and claims, now
existing in the said Albemarle Academy and its Trustees, shall by
this Act become vested in the said Central College, and its proper
officers, so soon as they shall be appointed; and that, in aid of the
subscriptions and donations obtained, and to be obtained, and of the
proceeds of the lottery authorized by the Act for establishing the
Albemarle Academy, the said College shall, by its proper officers,
when appointed, be authorized to demand and receive the monies
which arose from the sales of the Glebe Lands of the parishes of
Saint Ann and Fredericksville, in the County of Albemarle, or such
part thereof as belongs to the County of Albemarle or its citizens,
in whatever they may be, to be employed for the purposes of the said
College.

10. And be it further enacted, That the act passed in the year one
thousand eight hundred and three for establishing the said Albemarle
Academy, that of the same year amending the said act, and
all other provisions of other acts contrary to the purview of this
act shall be repealed from and after the appointment of Visitors,
as therein (sic) provided.

11. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the
passing thereof." Acts of Assembly, 1816, p. 191.