Chap. 191.—An ACT to incorporate the Pamunkey Game Club.

Approved March 14, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That James C.
Lamb, E. C. Minor, William J. Leake, C. V. Meredith, C. O. Saville, S.
W. Travers, S. T. Morgan, and A. B. Dickinson, and such others as may
be hereafter associated with them, shall be, and they are hereby, consti-
tuted a body corporate under the name and style of the “Pamunkey
Game Club.” The said club may contract and be contracted with, sue and
be sued, and may generally do all such acts as may be necessary for the
purposes for which it is organized, and shall have all the rights and privi-
leges of a corporation, and be subject to all the rules and regulations in
regard to joint-stock companies so far as they are applicable and not in-
consistent with the provisions of this act.

2. The capital stock of the said club shall not be less than three thou-
sand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, to be divided into
shares of five hundred dollars each, which may be paid for in property or
in cash, and in such instalments as may be required by the by-laws of said
club. The said club is hereby authorized to buy, own, and sell the stock
of any member desiring to withdraw or who may die, or whose stock may
be sold under any legal process. The stock in said club shall be bought,
sold, transferred, and held subject to such conditions and restrictions as
shall be imposed by the by-laws thereof, and only upon such conditions
and restrictions.

3. The said club shall be authorized to do all lawful acts for the pro-
motion of the increase of game and fish in this Commonwealth and the
waters thereof, and for the enforcement of the game and fish laws of this
State, and shall be authorized to grant rewards out of its own funds for
the destruction of such birds or animals as are injurious to game, and for
the conviction of persons violating the laws relating to the protection of
game and fish.

4. The said club may purchase, Icase, hold, and own so much real
estate as may be desirable for its uses, not exceeding one-half of an acre
in the citv of Richmond, and not exceeding five thousand acres in the
counties of King William, New Kent, or elsewhere in this State, and may
lease, sell, or mortgage the same or any part thereof; and it may own and
operate such boats, skiffs, and other lawful contrivances as may be de-
sired by it to enable the members of said club to fish, shoot, and fowl in
any waters of this Commonwealth, and to carry out the other powers
herein granted. The members of the said club shall be authorized to
fish, shoot, and fowl in any waters of the Commonwealth, subject to such
restrictions and limitations as are contained in the general laws of the
State on such subjects.

5. The officers of said club shall be a president and a secretary, who
shall also be the treasurer. Until otherwise provided by the stock-
holders, the directors shall be three in number, composed of the president,
secretary, and such other person as may be elected for that purpose, all
of whom are to be elected by the members at their annual meeting. The
annual meeting shall be held at such time as the members shall appoint,
but until they shall appoint some other day, it shall be held on the first
Monday in October of each year; and a general meeting of the members
of said club may be called by the president upon the request of any three
of the members thereof, which shall be a regular meeting for the transac-
tion of any business, after a notice of the time and place of such meeting,
together with the objects for which it is called, shall have been mailed for
five days to the last known address of the members.

6. The said club may make such by-laws for the government of the
club as may be consistent with the laws of the State of Virginia, and may
provide rules regulating the admission of new members into said club,
and prescribing the conditions, limitations, and restrictions upon which
the stock owned by any member may be bought, sold, transferred, or held.
The said club shall have power to impose upon its members such monthly
or annual dues as may be necessary for its expenscs, and which may be
prescribed by the by-laws, and shall have power to enforce the payment
of such dues by legal process, and such dues shall be a lien prior to all
others upon the stock of the member in arrears.

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