Chap. 482.—An ACT to incorporate the trustees of Warwick Lodge, Knights
of Pythias, No. 72.

Approved February 24, 1896.

Whereas there is established in the city of Newport News, Vir-
ginia, a benevolent institution known as Warwick lodge, number
seventy-two, Knights of Pythias, which has for its object mutual aid
and assistance in time of sickness and other distresses, the burying
of deceased members, and caring for their widowe and orphans, and
the elevation of the moral and social standard of its members; and

Whereas it is believed that the facilities of the said institution
for the accomplishment of its benevolent purposes will be greatly
promoted by obtaining an act of incorporation of the trustees of the
said Warwick lodge, number seventy-two, Knights of Pythias, of
Newport News, Virginia: therefore,

1. Be itenacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Shelton
Jones Harwood, Charles Christian Miller, John James Palmer, John
W. Reynolds and Edward Newman Eubank, and their successors in
office, be, and they are hereby, constituted and appointed a body
politic and corporate by the name and style of the trustees of War-
wick lodge, number seventy-two, Knights of Pythias, of Newport
News, Virginia, and by that name shall have perpetual succession
and a common seal, may contract and be contracted with, sue and
be sued, may acquire by donation or purchase, receive, hold and pos-
sess, for the use and enjoyment of Warwick lodge, number seventy-
two, Knights of Pythias, of Newport News, Virginia, lands and other
property, and subject to the wishes and direction of the said lodge
may rent, sell, convey, invest, improve, encumber, and otherwise
manage and dispose of the same as to the said lodge may seem most
conducive to the interest and promotion of the benevolent purposes
of the said lodge ; borrow money and issue bonds for such length of
time as to the said trustees may seem proper, and secure the pay-
ment thereof by deed of trust or mortgage upon the property, real or
personal, of said lodge: provided the amount of land so acquired
shall not exceed at any one time two acres, and shall be situated in
the city of Newport News, and the amount of property so acquired,
both real and personal, shall not exceed in value at any one time
the sum of ten thousand dollars.

2. The said trustees and their successors shall hold office as trus-
tees no longer than they remain members of the said lodge, or until
their successors are duly elected and enter upon the discharge of
their duties as trustees. Such number of trustees as shall be provided
for by the by-laws of the said lodge shall be elected as often and in
such manner as may be prescribed by the laws and regulations of
the said lodge, and shall have power to appoint one of their number
as president and one as secretary and treasurer, and when bonds are
required to be given to the said lodge by any of its officers, the same
may be made payable to the said trustees.

3. The said corporation shall be governed by such rules and regu-
lations as may be prescribed for its action by the said lodge.

4. A majority of the trustees shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business, but no real estate owned by said lodge shal!
be sold by the said trustees of said lodge unless such sale is first
authorized by a majority vote of all the members in good standing
of the said lodge, in person or by proxy, which shall be attested by
a recorded vote of said lodge at a regular or called meeting.

5. All taxes and debts due the commonwealth shall be paid in
lawful money of the United States, and not in coupons, both state
and municipal.

6. The general assembly of Virginia reserves the right to alter,
amend and repeal this charter at pleasure.

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