Chap. 133.—An ACT to incorporate the Southern Orphan Association.

Passed January’30, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Mrs. James
Polk, Mrs. E. A. F. Mears, Mrs. C. C. Baxley, Mrs. William
L. Bostock, Mrs. J. H. Scheirs, Mrs. Charles McCubbin, Miss
Ann McAlleese, Mrs. John L. Hammond, Miss Lizzie Gar-
rett, Mrs. Archibald Hawkins, Mrs. Mary K. Henkle, their
associates and successors, be ‘and they are hereby incorpo-
rated by the name and style of The Southern Orphan Asso-
ciation; that by this name they shall have perpetual succes-
sion and a common seal, may sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded.

_ 2. The persons mentioned in the first section shall consti-
tute the board of trustees of said corporation, with power to
increase or diminish the number of the hoard: provided
that the number of such board shall never exceed fifty or be
less than nine, and to fill any vacancies which may occur in
their body by death, resignation or otherwise. The said
corporation shall have power to hold real estate, in the: city
of Richmond, not exceeding five acres, and in the county of
Henrico not exceeding fifty acres, and not to exceed in value
four hundred thousand dollars, and to make conyeyances of
the same for the benefit of the society; and shal also have
power to receive donations and to borrow money, for the
purposes of the society, and to pledge as security, for every
such loan, any or all of its property, either real or personal.

3. ‘he board of trustees shall have power to make rules
and regulations for the management of the association, to
prescribe the number of trustees necessary to.constitute a
quorum for business; to provide how and under what cir-
cumstances, if any, the absent trustees may be permitted to
vote by proxy; to receive, retain, educate and control such
destitute childr en, male or female, as, under the regulations
of the trustees, may be taken under their care, or may be
committed to their care by their parents; to prescribe rules
for their regulation and government; to bind out the said
children whenever, in their judement,. it may be proper, and
to execute indentures of apprenticeship: provided that such
rules and regulations shall be consistent with the constitution
and laws of the state of Virginia.

4. That as soon as the sum of thirty thousand dollars
shall be subscribed, any three of the parties hereinbefore
named, may call a meeting of the board, to be held after ad-
vertisement for at least ten days in one of the daily news-
papers of the cities of Baltimore and Richmond, at some
designated place in one of the said cities, and that five of the
said trustees ‘shall be sufficient to constitute a quorum for the
purpose of organization. As soon as the sum of one hun-
drgd thousand dollars shall be subscribed and paid in, or
secured to be paid in, the said trustees, if they have not pre-
viously done so, shall forthwith proceed to the erection of all
necessary buildings for the immediate execution of the pur-
poses of the association.

5. This act shall be in force from its passage, and subject
to modification or repeal, at the pleasure of the general
assembly.