Chap. 134.—An ACT to incorporate the Harrisonburg Society for Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals.

Approved March 10, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That W. 5.
Lurty, William McAlister, D. H. Lee Martz, J. C. Staples, Thomas H.
Miller, Hugh Morrison, Herbert Coffman, D. M. Switzer, M. B. Lewis.
A. H. Snyder, Peter Guyer, George O. Herring, and John A. Switzer,
all of the town of Harrisonburg, in the State of Virginia, and such other
persons as are now or may hereafter be associated with them, and their
successors, be, and they are hereby, constituted a body corporate under
the name and style of the Harrisonburg Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, and by that name shall have perpetual succession.
2. The object of said corporation shall be the prevention of cruelty
to animals.

3. The officers of said corporation shall consist of a president and two
vice-presidents, one secretary, who, together with the counsel of said
corporation, shall be ex-officio members of the executive committee, which
committee shall consist of ten members in addition to the ex-officio mem-
bers above named.

4. The foregoing officers shall be chosen from among the members
of the society in such manner as its by-laws may prescribe.

5. A library may be created for the use of its members.

6. The said society, for fixing the terms of admission of its members,
for the government of the same, for the election, change, and altering
the officers above named, and for the general regulation and management
of its affairs, shall have power to form a code of by-laws not inconsistent
with the laws of the State of Virginia.

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