Chap. 87.—An ACT to incorporate the Powhatan troop association.

Approved January 18, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
Powhatan troop association, composed of the veteran survivors of
company E, fourth regiment of Virginia calvary, second brigade,
first division of Stuart’s calvary corps, army of Northern Virginia,
and their associates and successors be, and they are hereby, made and
constituted a body politic and corporate by the aforesaid name.

2. The officers and directors of the association for the first year,
or until their successors are appointed, or elected, shall be Joseph
Hobson, president; Charles Old, vice-president; Frank D. Hill, sec-
retary; John R. Goode, treasurer; J. H. Harrison, chaplain. Di-
rectors—James R. Werth, John Gilliam, Charles Seldon, W. U.
Kennon, B. R. Selden, Milton McLaurine and Augustine Royal.

3. The object of the association is to erect a monument in remem-
brance of the Powhatan troop, and to provide for the preservation of
the same.

4. It shall be lawful for the association to elect and appoint, from
time to time, such officers as may be necessary for the proper man-
agement of the association’s affairs, and thereupon they shall have
and exercise all the general powers of a corporation, consistent with
the purpose of this act.

5. It shall be lawful for the association to acquire from the judge
of the county court of Powhatan county, Virginia, and to hold the
fee simple title thereto, toa plat of land forty feet square in and
upon the court green of Powhatan courthouse, for the purpose of
erecting a monument thereon, and for no other purpose whatever.

6. It shall be lawful for the association to issue to each of its
members, or to any descendant of any deceased veteran, a certificate
of membership and a descriptive list, and to have the same recorded
in a book to be provided by the association, to be placed in the cus-
tody of the clerk of the county court, upon the payment to the said
clerk of the said county the proper fee for recording the same.

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