Chap. 70.—An ACT to amend the Charter of the Female Human:
Association of the City of Richmond.

Approved February 28, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That an act en-
titled an act incorporating the Female Humane Association
of the city of Richmond, passed January eighth, eighteen
hundred and eleven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

2. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the Fe-
male Humane Association of the city of Richmond, institu-
ted for the relief of distressed females, and the support and
education of destitute female children be and they are hereby

. incorporated by the name and under the style of The Female
Humane Association of the city of Richmond. That by
that name they shall have perpetual succession, a common
seal, a power to take and hold property, real and personal,
or to make conveyances of the same for the bencfit of the
association. That they may sue and be sued, implead and
be impleaded, and make such by-laws for the regulation of
the said association not contrary to the laws of this common-
wealth or of the United States as the said society may think
proper to establish.

3. And bo it further enacted, That the said society shall
have power conformably to their regulations to bind out such
poor orphan children as. they may have taken under their
care, and also that they may bind such children as may be
committed tq their care by their parents. The indentures of
apprenticeship to be executed by the trustees hereinafter
mentioned, or either of them on behalf of the society: pro-
vided, that the court of hustings of the said city of Rich-
mond shall have the same superintendence over the conduct
of the persons to whom such children shall bo bound, and
over said apprentices as is given by law in other cases of ap-
prentices. And the society shall have power annually to
appoint two or more trustees in aid of said association, who
shall bind out children undor care of said association at their
request. The said trustees shall also, at tho end of every
year, inspect’the accounts of said association. Should any
vacancies happen in the said office of trustees, by death, re-
signation or otherwise, such vacancies to be supplied by the
said society.

4. When achild is received into the asylum of the said
Female Humane Association of the city of Richmond, or
after it is received therein, the father, or if there be no father,
the mother of said child, or if the father and mother have
deserted said child, or if she be an orphan who is a proper
object for the care of the overseers of the poor, then an over-
seer of the poor of the city, or a member of the committee
or board having superintendence of the poor of the city of
Richmond, shall sign a writing relinquishing his, her or the
city’s right, to the possession of the said child. And there-
upon, the said Female Humane Association of the city of
Richmond, shall be entitled to the possession of such child,
for the purpose of maintenance and instruction, according to
their constitution and by-laws, and with power to bind her
out, a3 provided in the second section of their charter.

5. This act shall commence and be in force from the pass-
ing thereof.

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