Chap. 8.—An ACT to incorporate the Piedmont Confederate Cemetery
Association,

Passed Mareh 15, 18067,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
James A. Evans, James P. Scott, George W. Movers, and
such other persons as may hereafter be associated with them,
are hereby constituted and made a body politic and corpo-
rate, under the name and style of The Piedmont Contcde-
rate Cemetery Association, and by that name may sue and
be sued, plead and be impleaded in any and all the courts of
this commonwealth; and shall enjoy all the rights and) privi-
leves conferred, and be subject ta all the rules, regulations
and restrictions imposed by the fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh
chapters of the Code of Virginia, so far as the sume are ap-
plicable to and not inconsistent with the provisions of this
act.

2. The said association shall have the right to hold, by pur.
chase, gift or devise, land, not exceeding one hundred a res,
in the county of Orange, for the purpose of establishing said
cemetery ther ein, and shall have power to lay out and orna-
ment the same; to sell and make conv evances of lots; to
erect suitable buildings and vaults; and to make and entoree,
by reasonable fines and penalties, such by-laws and recula-
tions for the government of the said cemetery as it-shall
deem necessary and proper.

3. The estate, property and affairs of said corporation, not
otherwise provided for, shall be managed and controled by
three trustees, to be chosen from amongst those who may
become proprietors of lots in said cemetery; and at all elec:
tions each corporator or lot owner shall be entitled to one vote,
the first election to be holden at such time and place as the
three trustees named in the first section, or a majority of
them, may designate, and under their superintendence.

4. No interest of alot holder in the property of said as-
sociation shall be subjected in any way to the payment of
debts, or pass into the hands of executors or administrators,
or be Hable for taxes of any description; but the right and
interest of each shall descend to and remain in the family of
the lot holder, according to the course of descents.

®. This act shall be in torce trom its passage, and shall be
subject to amendment, alteration, modification or repeal, at
the pleasure of the general assembly.
Whereas, it has been made known to the general assembly
of Virginia, that George Peabody, Esq., has made a dona-
tion, amounting to largely over two millions of dollars, to the
cause of education in the southern states: |

1. Be it resolved by the general assembly, That the rep-
resentatives of the people of this commonwealth, on behalf
ot their constituents and themselves, hereby record their
grateful appreciation of the liberal patriotism and enlarged
philanthropy which prompted this magnificent gift’ to the
youth of the south.

2. Resolved, That the general assembly recognizes in this
miunificent act, not less an enlightened interest in the noble
purpose to which this fund is to be devoted, than an auspi-
cious desire for the restoration of the amity once existing
but now unhappily destroyed between states which in com-
mon toil and common counsel laid the foundations of consti-
tutional liberty on this continent.

3. Itesolved, That a copy of these resolutions, signed by
the presiding oflicers of the senate and house of delegates,
be communicated to Mr. Peabody by his Excellency, the
covernor of this commonwealth, in such terms and manner
as to him may seem most appropriate.