Chap. 593.—An ACT to incorporate the Woman's Monument Association, of Essex
county, Virginia.

Approved April 2, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Mistress
T. E. Blakey, Mistress W. E. Wright, Mistress J. M. Broaddus, Mistress
B. B. Brockenbrough, Mistress G. N. Anderton, Mistress W. J. Haile,
Mistress John N. Temple, Mistress W. B. Robinson, Mistress T. R. B.
Wright, Miss Annie Gordon, Mistress S. P. Latane, Miss Agnes Rouzie,
Miss Page Cauthorn, Miss Mattie Boughan, Miss Alice Mallory, Mistress
F. B. Beale, Mistress O. D. Marston, Miss Ellen Latane, Mistress H. L.
Baylor, Miss M. T’. Hunter, Miss Marian Terrell, Miss Lizzie Parker, Mis-
tress P. C. Waring, Mistress W. A. Williams, Mistress Mary S. Sale, Miss
Annie Brooke, Mistress C. C. Mundie, Mistress Nannie Hayes, Miss Mil-
dred Ellis, Miss Imogen Barron, Mistress R. L. Ware, junior, Mistress
Thomas Ritchie Bland, Mistress W. H. Street, Mistress R. W. Eubank,
Mistress J. W. Clarkson, Mistress S. W. Mitchell, Mistress J. M. Owen,
Miss Manie L. Garnett, Miss Mary Campbell, Mistress C. C. Warner,
Mistress H. L. Newhbill, Miss L. K. Lewis, Miss Maggie Young, Mistress
C. M. Smoot, Mistress A. P. Montague, Miss M. B. P. Garnett, Miss
Mattie Denny, Mistress Frank Burke, Mistress Charlotte Walker Blanton,
Mistress Robert G. Haile, and such other persons as may be hereafter as-
sociated with them, shall be, and they are hereby, incorporated and made
a body politic and corporate under the name und style of the Woman’s
Monument Association, of Essex county, for the purpose of erecting
within the said county a monument in memory of the soldiers and sailors
of said county who were killed or died in the service of the Confederate
States, and by this name and style shall be invested with perpetual suc-
cession, and have a common seal.

2. The said corporation may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
and may acquire and hold personal property to an amount not exceeding
fifty thousand dollars, and land within the said county not exceeding five
acres, and generally shall be invested with all the privileges and powers
generally conferred on such bodies politic and corporate.

3. The board of supervisors of said county of Essex, with the concur-
rence of the county judge of said county entered of record, may grant to
said association the privilege of erecting said monument in the public
square of said county, at the county seat thereof, and if the same shall be
so erected with the consent of said board and judge, it shall not be law-
ful thereafter for the authorities of said county, or any other person or
persons whatever, to disturb or interfere with any monument so erected,
or to prevent said association from taking all proper measures and exer-
cising all proper means for the protection, preservation, and care of any
such monument.

4. Said association, when it shall have completed any such monument,
may, by a unanimous vote of its members, turn over to the said county of
Essex any such monument, and if the board of supervisors of said county,
with the assent of said judge entered of record, shall agree to accept the
same, such monument shall thereafter be a part of the public property of
said county, which shall be thereafter charged with the protection, preser-
vation, and care of the same.

5. The officers of said corporation shall consist of a president, four
vice-presidents, a secretary, and a treasurer, who shall also be correspond-
ing secretary.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall be subject to
any amendment, modification, or alteration by the general assembly of
Virginia which it may be lawful for such assembly to make.
702 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY.