Chap. 166.—An ACT to incorporate the Trustees of York River Lodge,
No. 42, Knights of Pythias.

Approved March 16, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of the state of
Virginia, That W. E. Hart, Edwin Wilkinson and C. T. Whi-
ting, and their successors in office, be and they are hereby
constituted a body politic, under the name and style of The
Trustees of York River Lodge, number forty-two, Knights
of Pythias, and by that name shall have perpetual succession
and acommon seal, and may sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded in any court of law or equity, and shall be capa-
ble in law to receive, purchase and hold real and personal
estate to an amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars,
to carry out the purposes of their incorporation.

2. The said trustees, or their successors in office, may, for
the purpose of erecting suitable buildings for lodge meetings,
on any real estate they may acquire in the town of West
Point, borrow a sum of money not exceeding in amount the
sum of twelve hundred dollars, and secure the payment
thereof by executing a deed of trust on said real estate and
improvements, or they may secure any debt or debts, to an
amount not exceeding the sum of twelve hundred dollars
contracted in the purchase of a lot in the town of West
Point, and in the erection of a Jodge building thereon, by
exccuting a deed of trust on such lot and improvements.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.