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it may be possessed at the time of the sale, other than debts due to it. Upon such conveyance to the purchaser, the Company to said company shall ipso facto be dissolved. And the said purchaser shall forthwith be a corporation by any name which may be set forth in said conveyance, or in any writing signed by him or them, and recorded in the recorder's office of any county wherein the property so sold, become a new or any part thereof, is situated, or where said conveyance corporation. is recorded.

Purchaser to

tion to succeed

ties of the old,

2. The corporation created by or in consequence of such New corporasale and conveyance shall succeed to all such franchises, to all the rights, and privileges and perform all such duties as would rights, privihave been had, or should have been performed by the first leges and ducompany, but for such sale and conveyance; save only that the corporation so created shall not be entitled to debts due to the first company, and shall not be liable for any debts of, or claims against, the said first company, which may not be expressly assumed in the contract of purchase; and that the whole profits of the business done by such corporation shall belong to the said purchaser and his assigns. His interest in the corporation shall be personal estate, and he, or his assigns, may create so many Purchaser's. shares of stock therein as he or they may think proper, not said corporaexceeding, together, the amount of stock in the first com- tion to be perpany at the time of the sale, and assign the same in a book sonal estate. kept for that purpose. The said shares shall thereupon be on the footing of shares in joint stock companies generally, except only that the first meeting of the stockholders shall

interest in

be held on such day and at such place as shall be fixed by Shares to be the said purchaser, of which notice shall be published for like shares in four successive weeks in a newspaper printed in each joint stock county in the State wherein said corporation may do bus companies.

iness.

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3. The debts due to and by, and claims against, the said Debts and liafirst company mentioned in the preceding section, shall be bilities of first subject to the provisions contained in the seventh section ject to sec. 7 of chapter fifty-two, of the Code.

ch. 52 of code.

To what sales

4. This Act shall not apply to any sales heretofore made, does not or any suits now pending in regard to such sales.

CHAPTER 71.-AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An Act for the establishment of the West Virginia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind," passed March 3d, 1870.

Passed February 18, 1871.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia :

1. The Board of Regents of the West Virginia Institu

apply.

Board of regents; how appointed.

Incorporation

Powers of board.

President and secretary.

Meetings.

Quorum.

Principal; his duties.

Teachers and assistants.

tion for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind shall consist of seven members, not less than two of whom shall be appointed by the Governor from each congressional district, who shall constitute collectively a body corporate, with powers to rent, purchase and convey real estate, and with all other powers necessary for the carrying on of the institution for the education of the deaf and dumb and blind youth of West Virginia, established under the said act passed March 3d, 1870, and to be known as the "Board of Regents of the West Virginia Institution for the deaf and dumb and blind." Said board shall appoint one of their number as Pre ident, and in case of his absence a President pro tem; shall also appoint a Secretary, and all orders, drafts or requsitions for money from the State shall be signed by their Secretary and countersigned by the President. Said board shall meet as hereinafter provided, and shall hold such other meetings as they may think necessary. Extra meetings may be called by the President or by any three members of the board by notifying the other members of the time and place of the meeting, and of the nature of the business which renders an extra meeting necessary; any three members of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all ordinary business, but for the appointment to and removal from office of any of the officers and teachers of said institution, the concurrence of the majority of the members of said board shall be neces

sary.

2. It shall be the duty of the principal under the direction of the board to superintend the affairs necessary for the proper conduct of the institution, and to make such general regulations as may be necessary for the successful management of the same, and to purchase such books and apparatus as may be necessary for the efficient working of the institution.

3. Said board shall appoint all necessary teachers and assistants, and shall provide the furniture, fixtures, appaFurniture, &c. ratus and other things necessary for the comfort and convenience of inmates of the institution.

Residence of officers.

Salaries;

when paid.

Physician.

4. The principal and matron shall reside in the institution, and the steward and teachers in or near it. All salaries shall be fixed by the board of regents and shall be paid quarterly out of the funds appropriated by the Legislature.

5. The board of regents shall employ as visiting physi cian of the institution a physician of respectable standing in his profession, and it shall be his duty to render all the medical assistance necessary to its inmates, and fix his sal

ary not to exceed two hundred dollars, to be paid in the same manner as a teacher.

6. The principal and steward shall give bond with ap- Bonds of prinproved security in such amount as the board of regents steward. cipal and may direct, for the faithful discharge of their respective

duties.

7. The board of regents shall prescribe such by-laws, By-laws. rules and regulations for the government and conduct of the institution under their charge as shall secure the harmonious and efficient management of said institution in all its parts. They shall require such reports from the Reports of principal, steward, matron and physician as in their opin-officers. ion the institution may demand, and they shall annually, Annual reon or before the first day of December, report to the port of board. Governor all the facts and circumstances in connection with the conduct and progress of the institution, with a careful statement of all the receipts and disbursements of the same, and shall accompany their annual report with such recommendations and suggestions as will enable the State efficiently to foster and promote the enterprise of educating the deaf, dumb and blind youth within its limits.

The fiscal year of the institution shall end on the last day Fiscal year of of September, and the accounts of the institution shall be the institukept with reference to said fiscal year; and there shall be tion. an annual meeting of said board on the third Thursday in October in each and every year.

8. The board of regents may provide in said institution Accommodaaccommodation for all the officers, assistants and employees, tions to be and for all the deaf, dumb and blind youth resident of the for whom. provided, and State of West Virginia who may apply for admission to the said institution, between the ages of eight and twenty-five years, and for such other deaf, dumb and blind persons as may apply for admission as paying pupils, under such regulations as said board may direct, but all youth admitted must be of sound mind and not afflicted with any contagious or offensive disease.

9. All such deaf, dumb and blind youth residents of the Who may be State of West Virginia between the ages of eight and admitted to twenty-five years, shall be admitted to pupilage in the pupilage. institution on application to the principal; until the institution is filled, applicants shall be admitted in the order of their application, and it shall be the duty of the principal to keep a careful record of the names of all pupils admit- Record of ted with the dates of their admission and discharge, their pupils. age, post office address, the name of their parents or guardians, the degree, cause and circumstances of their deafness or blindness. All such deaf, dumb and blind pupils shall be admitted as above directed without charge for

board and tuition; and when not otherwise provided with clothing they shall be furnished by the institution while they are pupils in the same, and the principal shall make Account to be out an account therefor in each case against the respective kept against the pupils re- counties from which said pupils are sent, in an amount not spective coun- exceeding forty dollars per annum for every such pupil, ties. which account shall be certified by the principal and countersigned by the secretary, and which shall be transmitted by the principal to the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county from which such pupil was sent, and such board of supervisors of such county shall at their next annual levy provide for the payment of the same out of such county levy to the said principal for the use of the said institution. The term of pupilage shall be five years at least, and for so much longer time as in the discretion of the board and principal their condition and progress would seem to justify. After all the applicants between the prescribed ages of eight and twenty-five years have been admitted, if there is still room, the principal may admit other deaf and dumb and blind persons on application who may tion of pupils be of suitable age to receive any advantages of the institunot within the tion, and upon such terms as the board may prescribe, but prescribed it shall be distinctly understood that such persons shall withdraw from the institution in the order of the dates of their admission to make room for new applicants between the ages herein already prescribed.

Term of pupilage.

Accommoda

ages.

Course of instruction.

Assessors to

register the names of the

deaf, dumb and blind, with certain

other facts.

Assessor to re

port to the

Auditor.

10. The course of instruction in the institution shall be prescribed by the board of regents with the advice of the principal, and shall be as extensive both in the intellectual, musical and mechanical departments, as the capacities and interests of the pupils may require.

11. In addition to their other duties the assessors of the State are hereby required to register in a book to be furn-. ished them by the Auditor for the purpose, the name of all deaf, dumb and blind persons in their respective districts, with the degree and cause of deafness and blindness in each case as far as can be ascertained from the heads of families, or from other persons whom the assessors may conveniently consult, their ages, the names of their parents or guardians, their post office address, and such other circumstances as may constitute useful statistical information in making the said institution promptly efficient in ameliorating the condition of the deaf, dumb and blind by education. They shall complete the registration as early as possible in the first annual assessment after the passage of this act, and shall forward their report directly to the Auditor, who shall if practicable, before the first day of July, or as soon thereafter as possible make an alphabetical abstract of all the facts furnished him by the assessors

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reports, and shall send the same by mail to the principal of Auditor to
the West Virginia Institute for the deaf, dumb and blind, forward ab-
and said principal is hereby further required to put him-sessors' re-
self in immediate correspondence with all the deaf, dumb and ports to prin
blind persons of suitable age and condition mentioned in cipal of insti-
the Auditor's abstract, with a view to their admission as Principal to
pupils into the West Virginia Institute for the deaf, dumb correspond.
and blind. The assessor shall receive for the extra duties etc.
hereby imposed the same compensation as is now allowed Assessor's
them for the registration of births and deaths, and shall be compensation
for registra-
liable to the same penalties for failure to discharge these tion.
duties.

CHAPTER 72.-AN ACT to amend Chapter eighteen, of

the Code of West Virginia, in relation to the office of
Adjutant General and Quartermaster General.

Passed February 18, 1871.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section one, of chapter eighteen, of the Code of West Virginia, be and the same is hereby amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:

of free schools

1. The general superintendent of free schools shall be Geneal Supt. ex-officio Adjutant General, and as such shall do and per- ex-officio adform all the duties required by law to be performed by the jutant gen❜l. Adjutant General.

Section three of said chapter is hereby amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:

quartermaster

3. The general superintendent of free schools shall also Ex-officio be ex-officio Quartermaster General, and as such shall do general. and perform all the duties pertaining to that office. As Adjutant General he may employ a clerk, as provided for Clerk. in section three, of chapter eleven, of said Code, but he shall not be entitled to the salary as Adjutant General, or any part thereof mentioned in the first section of said abolished. chapter eleven.

CHAPTER 73.-AN ACT to amend the provisions of Sec-
tion 40, of Chapter thirty-one, of the Code of this State,
relative to deeds for real estate sold in the year 1860,
for taxes.

Passed February 18, 1871.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia :

Salary of adjutant gen'l

sold in 1866 for taxes, and

Where any real estate was sold in the year 1860, for Real estate the non-payment of taxes, and the purchaser obtained a deed therefor after the 27th day of February, in the year deed obtained 1866, before the passage of the act of the legislature estab- after Feb. 27, lishing a code of laws for this State, in the year 1868; and 1866.

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