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VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY -- CHAPTER An Act to amend and reenact the second enactment of Chapter 122 of the Acts of Assembly of 1870, relating to the incorporation of Hampton University. [S 1425] Approved

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the second enactment of Chapter 122 of the Acts of Assembly of 1870 is amended and reenacted as follows:

2. That the purposes of the said Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute University shall be as follows: For the instruction of youth in the various common school, academic, and collegiate branches, the best methods of teaching the same, and the best mode of practical industry in its application to agricultural and the mechanic arts; and for the carrying out of these purposes, the said trustees may establish any departments or schools in the said institution. to operate an institution of higher education, provide instruction and training, advance education and science, conduct medical and scientific research in the public interest, promote health and social welfare, benefit the community, and such other educational, charitable, scientific and literary purposes as the trustees may from time to time determine.