Chap. 176.—An ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the Order -of
Sons and Daughters of Union Star.

Approved February 19, 1886.

Whereas, there has existed for sometime past, in the county
of Chesterfield, Bermuda magisterial district, an association of
persons known as The Order of Sons and Daughters of Union
Star, the purposes and objects of which are solely benevolent
and charitably; and to enable such association to more effectu-
ally carry out the purposes of their organization, an act of in-
corportion is desired; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Cary Quarles, Ephraim Williams, Thomas Jefferson, Randall
Corstley, Henry Cheatham, James Cheatham, William Cole-
man, and Paul Berry, and Henry Glass, and such other per-
sons as are now or may hereafter be associated with them,
desire to be incorporated and made a body politic, under
the name and title of The Order of Sons and Daughters of
Union Star, of the county of Chesterfield, Virginia, and as
such shall have power to sue and be sued, contract and be con-
tracted with, and to hold, buy, sell or lease real and personal
property in the said county; provided, it shall not hold or pos-
sess at any one time property to the amount exceeding two
thousand dollars.

2. The said corporation shall have power to make and adopt
a constitution and by-laws, rules and regulations, for the ad-
mission and expulsion of its members, and their government,
the election of its officers, and to define their duties, and for
the safekeeeping of its property and funds; and from time to
time to alter or repeal such constitution, by-laws and regula-
tions: provided the same be not inconsistent with the constitu-
tion and the laws of the United States or the state of Virginia.

3. The object of the said order is to establish in said county
a mutual relief association, and with the puropose of providing
homes for the members of said order, and to take care of its
sick, and bury its dead, and to maintain a fund for the relief of
widows, orphans, or the beneficiaries of deceased members of
the said order, and to possess such power as to such fees, fines
and contributions from its members, as it shall deem proper for
the purposes of the said order.

4. The said order being for benevolent purposes, as afore-
said, is to have and to hold not more than one hundred acres
of land in the said county, and such other personal property as.
may be necessary for its purposes as aforesaid, the same not to
exceed the amount of two thousand dollars aforesaid.

5. Its principal office is to be kept in Chesterfield county,
Virginia; the chief business to be transacted is as above stated
in its objects and purposes; and the officers of said order shall
be one president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, chairman
of the executive committee, and one assistant chairman of the
executive committee; and the terms of their office shall be one
year, and the residence of all of said officers shall be in the
county of Chesterfield.

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