Chap. 68.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of an act entitled an act
to incorporate the Virginia state agricultural and mechanical society, ap-
proved February 8, 1888.

Approved January 16, 1896.

1..Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion seven of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Virginia state
agricultural and mechanical society, approved February eighth,
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be amended and re-enacted 50
that the said section shal] hereafter be as follows:

§ 7. The society shall provide a seal, and it may sue and be sued
as any other corporative body, and may obtain loans and pledge its
property, by deed or otherwise, as security therefor, when authorized
by a majority vote of a general meeting of the society on the recom-
mendation of the executive committee, or the said society may in
like manner issue its bonds to any amount not exceeding strty
thousand dollars, the principal payable at a date not exceeding
twenty years, the interest not exceeding six per centum per annum,
payable semi-annually, and the said bonds shall, from the date of
their issue, upon being entered upon the liep docket of the hustings
court of the city of Richmond, operate as a lien on the real estate of
said society.

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