Chap. 40.—An ACT to amend section three of an act approved April
17th, 1874, entitled an act to incorporate the Little Sisters of the Poor
in Richmond.

Approved January 26, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section three of an act approved April the seventeenth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-four, entitled an act to incorporate
the Little Sisters of the Poor in Richmond, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
§ 3. The said corporation shall have power to receive mo-

ney or personal property by gift or bequest, for the purpose
aforesaid, and shall also have powcr to receive by purchase,
grant, or devise, and to hold temporarily or in perpetuity,
and to sell and convey, when not restrained from so doing
by the deed, will, or other instrument under which they may
acquire title, lands in the city of Richmond aforesaid, or ad-
jacent thereto, to an amount not exceeding, in possession at
one time, five acres in the whole, and to muintain and erect
thereon such buildings as the corporators may deem necessa-
ry for the purposes of their institution; and to provide the
same with proper furniture and accommodations: provided,
that the money and otber personal pioperty shall not exceed
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: and provided further,
that should such corporation cease to exist, from any cause
whatsoever, the lands given to said corporation shall be taken
and held by any person whom the donor shall designate in
the deed or will giving-said lands.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.