Chap. 190.—An ACT to incorporate the Hot Springs Company, in the
County of Bath, Virginia.

Passed February 13, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Samuel C.
Tardy, James T. Williams, Thomas R. Price, Jacob Hall, Jr.,
and A. L. Ellett, and others associating with them with that
intent, may become a body corporate and politic, by the
name of The Hot Springs Company of Bath County, Vir-
ginia; and as such, have continual succession, sue and be
sued, contract and be contracted with, and ordain by-laws
and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of this state
or of the United States. The capital shall not exceed one
million dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dol-
lars each, and shall consist in part of the property known as
the Hot springs, in the county of Bath, Virginia. The cor-
poration may acquire and hold lands not exceeding ten thou-
sand acres, and have power to erect buildings. for the
accommodations of visitors and others; to provide for their
entertainment, and receive compensation therefor; to enter
into contracts of sale and lease, and of insurance against fire;
to improve and cultivate its lands, and to erect and conduct
saw and other mills.

2. The shares of stock shall be personal estate. The an-
nual and other meetings of the stockholders shall be consti-
tuted, and the scale of voting therein regulated, pursuant to
chapter fifty-seven of the Code of eighteen hundred and
sixty ; but the first.meeting thereof shall be pursuant to the
sppointment of any two of the above-named persons, on two
weeks previous notice given in one or more newspapers. At
uch ‘meeting, and ‘annually thereafter, there shall be elected
, president and three directors, whose terms of service,
laties and powers, shall be prescribed in said chapter; and
he thirtieth and thirty-first sections thereof, being those
elating to dividends, shall be taken to be a part of this act.
‘3. This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall be
ibject to amendment, modification or repeal, at the pleasure
f the general assembly.