Chap. 136.—An ACT to incorporate The Masonic Temple Association
of the City of Petersburg.

: Approved March 1, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That

John W. Tony, Z. A. Langley, Edward L. Stokes, James M.

Mabry, Joseph Cox, John Walker, William A. Stewart, M.
B. Thomas, and all others that may.be hereafter associated
with them, are hereby made a body politic and corporate,
under the style and title of The Masonic Temple Association
of the city of Petersburg.

2. The object of the said association shall be to purchase
a site in the city of Petersburg, Virginia, and to erect thereon
a suitable building adapted to the pse of the Grand Lodge,
and other Masonic bodies in Virginia, both supreme and su-
bordinate. ,

3. The capital stock shall not be less than ten thousand
dollars nor more than fifty thousand dollars, in shares of ten
dollars each; and the affairs of the said association shall be
managed by a board of trustees, who shall have power to
open books under their own superintendence, or that of any
other person or persons whom they may appoint, for sub-
scriptions to the capital stock of the association, at such
times and places as they may think proper, and as soon as
the minimum amount of the stock is subscribed, they shall
then organize by the appointment of one of their own body
as president, and the said trustees shall have power to ap-
point a secretary and treasurer, and such other officers and
agents as they may deem necessary, and fix their salaries;
and the said treasurer shall give such bond and security to
the board of trustees as they shall require.

4. The board of trustees shall have power to make such
rules and regulations for the government of the association
as are necessary, not contrary to the laws of this state; and
they shall have power to determine the location, to purchase
the ground, and to adopt the plan and arrangement of tho
building, and contract for and superintend the erection of
the same, to collect subscription of the stock in such requi-
sitions as may be necessary for the payment of the purchase
of the ground and the completion of the building, and when
completed the board of trustees shall, through their officers
and agents, take charge of the building, to rent out the va-
rious parts, determine the rent, collect the income arisin
therefrom, to alter and repair the building, to declare an
pay out any revenues of the net profits which they may
deem proper for the best interest of the corporation gener-
ally, except, that they shall not have the power to sell and
convey the property after the building shall be erected, with-
out the consent of the Grand Lodge of Virginia.
5. The said association may receive from any person or
yersons voluntary donations in real or personal property, or
noney for its own benefit.

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