Student Regulations, University of Virginia Board of Visitors Minutes, 68-70 (October 4–5, 1824).

  "No Student shall admit any disturbing noises in his room, or make them any where within the precincts of the University or fire a gun or a pistol within the same, on pain of such minor sentence as the faculty shall decree or approve…

    …Fighting with weapons which may inflict death, or a challenge to such fight, given or accepted, shall be punished by instant expulsion from the University, not remissible by the Faculty; and it shall be the duty of the Proctor to give information thereof to the civil magistrate, that the parties may be dealt with according to law...

    …Sentences of expulsion from the University (except in the case of challenge or combat with arms) shall not be final until approved by the board of Visitors of, when they are not in session, by a majority of them, separately consulted, but residence within the precincts, and attendance on the schools may be suspended in the meantime.

   No student shall, within the precincts of the University, introduce, keep or use any spirituous or vinous liquors, keep or use weapons or arms of any kind, or gunpowder, keep a servant, horse or dog, appear in school with a slick, or any weapon, nor while in school, be covered without the permission of the Professor, nor use tobacco by smoking or chewing, on pain of any of the minor punishments at the discretion of the Faculty, or the board of Censors, approved by the Faculty."