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Volume 6 Relation of U.B/EUB Virginia Conferences to Shenandoah University Dec. 26, 2013
Instrumental Music, daily lessons, 14.00 9.00 10.00
Dally Practice, two hours per day, 2.50 1.50 2.00
Vocal Music — ——
Chemistry, extended course, per course
Surveying, with field practice, per course $10.00
Drawing, per course 10.00
Medicine’, full course of reading, per course 10.00
Telegraphy, per course 25.00
30.00
Estimates of entire yearly expense furnished upon application. The Common English Branches include
Orthography, English, Grammar, Elementary Geography, Mental and Written Arithmetic, and Reading.
The Intermediate Branches include Higher Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, Analysis, Physical
Geography, Rhetoric, Penmanship, and Bookkeeping. The Higher Branches include the Higher English
studies, together with Mathematics, Latin, and Greek.
Charter59: An act to incorporate the Shenandoah Seminary at Dayton, Rockingham County, Virginia. 1.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That for the purpose of establishing an institution for the
education of youth in the various branches of useful knowledge, John W. Howe, Solomon Burtner, Aldine S.
Kieffer, George P. Burtner, J. Newton Fries, William H. Burtner, Samuel Shrum, Ephraim Ruebush, Perthena H.
Speck, John Ruebush, Abraham Paul, W. J. Miller, J. W. Hott, A. P. Funkhouser, and any others who may be
associated with them, and their successors, be and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate,
with perpetual succession, with full power to sue and be sued, to implead and be impleaded; to acquire, hold and
convey property, both real and personal; to have, make and use a common seal; to alter and renew the same at
pleasure; to confer on those whom they may deem worthy all such honors and degrees as are usually conferred by
similar institutions, and to ordain, make and alter such by-laws and regulations as shall be deemed necessary for
the government of said institution: provided that such by-laws and regulations be not inconsistent with the laws of
the United States and of this State. 2. The said corporation shall be known and designated by the name and style
of The Shenandoah Seminary of Virginia, located in the village of Dayton, Rockingham County. 3. The capital
stock of said corporation shall not be loss than five thousand, nor more than one hundred thousand dollars, and
shall be issued in shares of one hundred dollars each. 4. That John W. Howe, J. W. Hott, Ephraim Ruebush,
Samuel Shrum and George P. Burtner shall be the directors of said company till otherwise appointed by the
stockholders, of whom John W. Howe shall be president, George P. Burtner secretary, and Ephraim Ruebush
treasurer, the officers and directors to continue in office until their successors are elected. In case of a vacancy in
the office of president, secretary, treasurer or directors, from any cause, the remaining directors may elect others
to supply their place until a meeting of the stockholders shall be held. 5. There shall be an annual meeting of the
stockholders for the election of directors held at the seminary buildings, at the close of each scholastic year. The
said directors so elected may elect a president, secretary and treasurer from among their number, who shall
continue in office until their successors are similarly elected. The president shall have power to call an extra
meeting of the stockholders whenever he deems such meeting necessary, and at any meeting a majority of the
stock must be represented. At all meetings of the stockholders, each share of one hundred dollars shall be entitled
to one vote. 6. It shall be the duty of the board of directors to control and care for the property; to see after its
interests generally; to issue certificates of stock, which must be signed by the president and countersigned by the
secretary; to elect the principal, professors, and other officers, and to remove any and either of the instructors or
officers for good and sufficient reasons, and to fill all vacancies which may occur among the officers and
instructors. 7. The board of directors shall meet annually, or oftener, if need be; the annual meeting to be
appointed by the board, and the special meetings to be called by the president. 8. This act shall be in force from
its passage.
59 Names underlined (here and elsewhere) were U.B. preachers in the Virginia Conference.
Reports 1879 108
Instrumental Music, daily lessons, 14.00 9.00 10.00
Dally Practice, two hours per day, 2.50 1.50 2.00
Vocal Music — ——
Chemistry, extended course, per course
Surveying, with field practice, per course $10.00
Drawing, per course 10.00
Medicine’, full course of reading, per course 10.00
Telegraphy, per course 25.00
30.00
Estimates of entire yearly expense furnished upon application. The Common English Branches include
Orthography, English, Grammar, Elementary Geography, Mental and Written Arithmetic, and Reading.
The Intermediate Branches include Higher Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, Analysis, Physical
Geography, Rhetoric, Penmanship, and Bookkeeping. The Higher Branches include the Higher English
studies, together with Mathematics, Latin, and Greek.
Charter59: An act to incorporate the Shenandoah Seminary at Dayton, Rockingham County, Virginia. 1.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That for the purpose of establishing an institution for the
education of youth in the various branches of useful knowledge, John W. Howe, Solomon Burtner, Aldine S.
Kieffer, George P. Burtner, J. Newton Fries, William H. Burtner, Samuel Shrum, Ephraim Ruebush, Perthena H.
Speck, John Ruebush, Abraham Paul, W. J. Miller, J. W. Hott, A. P. Funkhouser, and any others who may be
associated with them, and their successors, be and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate,
with perpetual succession, with full power to sue and be sued, to implead and be impleaded; to acquire, hold and
convey property, both real and personal; to have, make and use a common seal; to alter and renew the same at
pleasure; to confer on those whom they may deem worthy all such honors and degrees as are usually conferred by
similar institutions, and to ordain, make and alter such by-laws and regulations as shall be deemed necessary for
the government of said institution: provided that such by-laws and regulations be not inconsistent with the laws of
the United States and of this State. 2. The said corporation shall be known and designated by the name and style
of The Shenandoah Seminary of Virginia, located in the village of Dayton, Rockingham County. 3. The capital
stock of said corporation shall not be loss than five thousand, nor more than one hundred thousand dollars, and
shall be issued in shares of one hundred dollars each. 4. That John W. Howe, J. W. Hott, Ephraim Ruebush,
Samuel Shrum and George P. Burtner shall be the directors of said company till otherwise appointed by the
stockholders, of whom John W. Howe shall be president, George P. Burtner secretary, and Ephraim Ruebush
treasurer, the officers and directors to continue in office until their successors are elected. In case of a vacancy in
the office of president, secretary, treasurer or directors, from any cause, the remaining directors may elect others
to supply their place until a meeting of the stockholders shall be held. 5. There shall be an annual meeting of the
stockholders for the election of directors held at the seminary buildings, at the close of each scholastic year. The
said directors so elected may elect a president, secretary and treasurer from among their number, who shall
continue in office until their successors are similarly elected. The president shall have power to call an extra
meeting of the stockholders whenever he deems such meeting necessary, and at any meeting a majority of the
stock must be represented. At all meetings of the stockholders, each share of one hundred dollars shall be entitled
to one vote. 6. It shall be the duty of the board of directors to control and care for the property; to see after its
interests generally; to issue certificates of stock, which must be signed by the president and countersigned by the
secretary; to elect the principal, professors, and other officers, and to remove any and either of the instructors or
officers for good and sufficient reasons, and to fill all vacancies which may occur among the officers and
instructors. 7. The board of directors shall meet annually, or oftener, if need be; the annual meeting to be
appointed by the board, and the special meetings to be called by the president. 8. This act shall be in force from
its passage.
59 Names underlined (here and elsewhere) were U.B. preachers in the Virginia Conference.
Reports 1879 108
