Chap. 343.—An ACT to incorporate the Virginia state firemen’s association.
Approved February 14, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That E.
W. Sullivan, Harrisonburg; C. E.Murden, Portsmouth; C. W. Sykes,
Danville; C. D. Carter, Charlottesville; S. Gordon Cummings,
Hampton; Charles H. Hardy, Winchester; W. C. C. Vanneman,
Clifton Forge; S. S. Peterson, Staunton; W. K. Stowe, Newport
News; Charles T. Bland, Portsmouth; L. Lookabill, Roanoke; E. J.
Grimes, Norfolk county; Dennis Brown, Staunton; Walter Line-
weaver, Harrisonburg; 0. B. Roller, Harrisonburg; O. I... Morrisette,
Berkley; E. A. Critzer, Waynesboro; J. Edward Deaver, Lexington ;
A. P. Funkhouser, Harrisonburg; J. T. Houck, Harrisonburg; W.
T. Davis, Pheebus; C. H. Wilkinson, Bedford City; W. J. Quinn,
Roanoke ; W. J. Weymouth, Hampton; George G. Cummings, Ports-
mouth; N. F. Reid, Danville, and their associates and successors in
office be, and they are hereby, constituted and. made a body corporate
and politic under the name and style of the Virginia state firemen’s
association, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and
be capable in law to hold and dispose of property, real and personal,
to sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law or
equity; to have and use a common seal and alter and renew the
same at pleasure; te make and adopt a constitution and by-laws for
the government of said body corporate and its affairs, provided the
same shall not conflict with the constitution and laws of this state
or of the United States ; to elect officers and directors, and generally
to do every other act or thing to carry into effect the provisions of
this act or to promote the object and designs of the said corporation.

2. The objects and purposes of this corporation shall be to form a
more perfect organization among the volunteer firemen of Virginia;
to establish harmony of action; to provide pecuniary support in
cases where firemen have been injured while in the performance of
their duty; to insure prosperity and success; to promote the best
interests of the volunteer firemen of Virginia; to encourage the culti-
vation of fraternal fellowship; to promote the formation of fire com-
panies in towns and villages in the state that are now without ade-
quate protection from fires; to compile statistics of information
concerning the practical working of various systems and the merits
of various apparatus in use for the extinguishing of fires.

3. The volunteer fire companies and veteran volunteer firemen’s
association of the state of Virginia, composing the membership of
this corporation, shall annually elect a president, a senior vice-
president, one vice-president for each volunteer fire company or
veteran association, a recording secretary, and a treasurer; and that
the president shall annually appoint five persons to act as the
executive committee, who, together with the other officers named,
shall have the general management of the affairs of the cor-
poration.

4. The said corporation hereby formed shall have full power to
receive subscriptions, donations, devises, and bequests of money, or
real or personal property, in trust or otherwise, and to purchase or
otherwise acquire and hold such property, to be applied by it to
objects of its incorporation, not to exceed the sum of twenty thou-
sand dollars.

5. W. J. Weymouth, president; George G. Cummings, secretary ;
and N. F. Reid, treasurer, who, together with the corporators named
above, shall manage the affairs of the association until its next
annual meeting.

6. This act shall take effect from the date of its passage.