Chap. 285.—An ACT to incorporate the Dismal Swamp Hunting club
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arfalk ecannty,
den, William McCoy, Richard Moore, John R. Garriss, Wil-

liam J. Strickland, and John Smyth, or any three of them,

for receiving subscriptions of stock in shares of one dollar

each, to an amount not less than thirty and not to exceed

one hundred shares, to constitute a joint capital stock for the

alin of organizing the Dismal Swamp hunting club of
orfolk county.

2. Subscriptions of stock may be taken and paid in money :
or in lands: provided, that said company shall not hold more |
than one hundred acres of land in said county.

3. Whenever twenty shares of stock shall have been sub- :
scribed, the subscribers shall be and are hereby declared to
be a body politic and corporate under the name and style of
the Dismal Swamp hunting club of Norfolk county, and shall
have all the privileges and be subject to all the restrictions
and provisions of the game laws now in force in the said
county.

4. And it shall be lawful so soon as it is ascertained that
thirty shares of the stock have been taken, for any three of
the said commissioners to call a meeting of the company, by
giving notice of the time and place of such meeting. A
majority of said stockholders being present in person or
represented by proxy, they may proceed to organize the club by
the election of a president, secretary, and a board of direc- |
tors, and do all such other acts as they may deem necessary
and proper to carry out all the objects contemplated in this
charter.

5. The principal office of the Dismal Swamp hunting club
shall be at Berkley, Virginia, with branch offices at such
other places in said county as the board of directors shall fix
and determine.

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