Chap. 90.—An ACT to incorporate Golden Hill Lodge, No. 1890, G. U.
O. of O. F., of Hamilton, Loudoun county, Virginia.

Approved April 28, 1887,

Whereas there is established in Hamilton, Loudoun county,
Virginia, a benevolent institution known as Golden Hill
Lodue, number eighteen hundred and ninety, Grand United
Order of Odd Fellows, which has for its object mutual aid
and assistance to its numbers in time of sickness, the burying
of deceased members, and so forth; and whereas it 18 believed
that the facilities of said inatitulivn for accomplishing its
benevolent purposes would be greatly promoted by obtaining
an act of incorporation ot the said lodge; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Charles F. Levenberry, Isaac ( ‘opeland, Charles Butler,
Daniel Lee, Anthony Logan, Daniel Willis, James A. Collins,
James H. Jackson, Lewis Clemings, Henry Cook, C. Ran-
dolph, and James Lewis, and their successors, be and are
hereby appointed a body politic and corporate by the name
and style of the trustees of Golden Till Lodee, number elgh-
teen hundred aud ninety Grand United Order of Odd Fel-
lows of Hamilton, Loudoun county, Virginia, and by that
name and style shall have a perpetual succession and a com-
mon seal; may contract and be contracted with, sue and be
sued, may acquire, receive, hold, possess, and enjoy, and may
rent, scll, convey, and invest, and otherwise manace or dis-
pyuse of as may to them seem most conducive to their Interest
and benevolent purposes of said Golden Thill Lodve, all lands,
money, or other property. real or personal, which may have
been or may be given, or otherwise acquired tor the use of
said lodge, and the said trustees and their successors shall
hold office as trustees no longer than they remain members
of said lodge, or until their successors enter upon the dis-
charge of their duties as trustees: provided that the sum of
money so acquired shall not execed ten thousand dollars: and
provided that the land held by them shall not exceed one
were.

2. The trustees shall be elected according to the rules of
the aforesaid lodge, shall have power to appoint such officers
as may be necessary, and shall exact from any of them such
bonds or other security, conditioned tor the faithful perform-
ance of their duties, and the bonds of the secretary and treas-
urer of said lodge and other officers of whom bonds may be
required, mav be made payable to said trustees.

3. Five trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transac-
tion of the business of the board of trustees, but it shall re-
quire a majority of all the trustees then in existence to buy
or make sale of real estate.

4. This act shall take effect from its passage, and shall be
subject to the laws of this State and of the United States.