Chap. 356.—An ACT to incorporate the Ladies Memorial Association
of Fredericksburg.

Approved April 30, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Th:

fon Mistress Mary N. Wallace, Mistress Fannie W. White, 3

tress L. O. Magrath, Mistress J. Horace Lacey, Mistreas J:
siah Hazard, Mistress W.S. Barton, Mistress John T. Ge:
rick, Mistress J. B. Ficklen, Junior, Mistress John T. Knigt
Mistress L. B. Rose, Mistress J. H. Bradley, Miss Lucy ‘
Wellford, Miss Ann J. Carter, Mistress John A. English, M::
Lizzie Alsop, and such other persons as they shall associa:
with them, be and are hereby constituted a body corporss:
under the name and style of the Ladies Memorial Associ:
tion of Fredericksburg; and by this name and style shall b
invested with perpetual succession, and have a common sea
may sue and be suod, implead and be impleaded, and in »
respects shall be invested with the rights and privileges cot

' ferred, and subject to the restrictions and regulations pr

. Acquisition of

scribed for corporations in the Code of Virginia, eightec:
hundred and seventy-three, so far as the same may be app:
cable to such an association, and not inconsistent with th:
act.

2. The object and purpose of this corporation shall be
purchase and beautify grounds, to erect thereon suitable mou
uments and tombstones, and to identify, mark and decors.
the graves of Confederate soldiers interred in sajd grouni:
or removed to the same, and the operations of said corpor:
tion shall be confined to such objects. :

3. The officers of said corporation shall consist of a pre
dent, two vice-presidents, a secretary, treasurer, and exec:
tive committee of not more than twenty members.

4. In promotion of this object, the corporation may acqu'r
and hold real and personal estate, not exceeding in the a:

Amount limited gregate one hundred thousand dollars, and may invest ::
5. The said corporation may sell and convey any lots ins
its grounds for purposes of burial of others than Confederate !*
soldiers, and said lots shall be considered as personal and not r
real estate. zt

6. John T. Goolrick, EK. M. @raxton, Judge W.S. Barton, ¢
R. B. Merchant, C. W. Wallace, James P. Corbin, J. W. Sener, 5
John L. Marye, junior, Hugh 8. Doggett, C. M. Braxton, *
John A. English, George E. Chancellor, St. George R. Fitz-
hugh, John G. Mason, Charles Herndon, R. B. Benly, R. S.
Chew, R. H. Carmichael, L. B. Rose and J. Horace Lacey,
shall constitute the executive committee of the said corpora-
tion, with power to fill vacancies which may occur in their v
own body by death or otherwise; to appoint a sub-committee 4
or committees for such purposes as may be necessary ; to make
rules and regulations for the management of said corpora-
tion, and for the admission of members, and generally to do
every act and thing necessary to carry into effect this act,
and to promote the objects and design of this corporation,
five members of said committee shall constitute a quorum

for the transaction of any and all business. The office of this y
corporation shall be at Fredericksburg, Virginia. o
7. This act shall be in force from its passage. c