Chap. 35.—An ACT to incorporate the Dixie Beneficial Association.
Approved December 21, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Royal Ben-
lett Bradley, Joseph 8. Bradley, Walter J. Cole, J. G. Hankins, J. W.
Percival, J. L. Walker, and F. M. Walker, and their associates, suc-
cessors, and assigns, be, and they are hereby, constituted a body cor-
porate and politic by the name of the Dixie Beneficial Association, and
by that name shall be known in law, and shall have perpetual succession,
and shall have the power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded ; and
may make and have a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and
shall have, exercise, and enjoy all the rights, powers, and privileges per-
taining to corporate bodies and necessary for the purposes hereinafter set
forth; and may make a constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations con-
sistent with the existing laws of this State for the government of all
under its authority, for the management of its money, estates, and pro-
perties, for the due and orderly conduct of its business and affairs, and
for the collection, investment, and disbursement of all funds under its
control.

2. The gencral objects of said association are to unite fraternally all
acceptable persons of sound bodily health and good moral character; to
give and render all material aid in its power to its members and those
dependent upon them; to establish benefit funds for the relief of dis-
tressed, sick, and disabled members; to accumulate a fund by collecting
from its members at stated periods certain fixed sums of money for the
purpose of paying such sick and death benefits as may be stipulated to be
paid in the certificates or policies to be issued by said association; to es-
tablish benefit funds from which the members of said association who
have complied with all the rules and regulations thereof may receive at
the end of a certain period a sum not excceding five thousand dollars,
which may be payable in one lump sum or in monthly or annual install-
ments, or from which said benefit funds, on satisfactory evidence of the
death of a member who has complied with such rules and regulations, a
sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, which may also be payable in
one lump sum or in monthly or annual installments to the family of
such deceased member, or to such other person as such member shall
have directed, or in case of failure so to direct, then to the legal repre-
sentatives of such deceased member.

3. The said association may acquire and own by gift, grant, purchase,
or otherwise, real estate not to exceed ten acres, except that said corpora-
tion may further acquire and own by purchase or otherwise any real estate
that may be sold at public auction for any debt due said corporation.

4. The principal office of the said association shall be in the city of
Richmond, Virginia, with power to establish branch offices throughout
the United States and territories thereof, and other countries, on comply-
ing with the laws of such States, territories, or countries.

5. All taxes, debts, and demands due the State of Virginia shall be
paid in lawful money of the United States, and not in coupons from the
bonds of the State of Virginia.

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