Chap. 489.—An ACT to incorporate the Marion society for the prevention of
cruelty to animals.

Approved February 21, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That B. F.
Buchanan, Reverend Doctor Dunnaway, Reverend Doctor L. H. Carlock,
Luther Scherer, Charles Copenhaver, H. A. Buchanan, Daniel Miller,
C. H. Carper, A. H. Atkins, Judge George W. Richardson, Doctor John
W. Apperson, I. 8S. Richardson, N. lL. Look, Fredrick Painter, and James
H. Gilmore, all of the town of Marion, in the state of Virginia, and such
other persons as are now or may hereafter be associated with them,
and their successors, be, and thev are hereby, constituted a body cor-
porate under the name and style of the Marion society for the prevention
of cruelty to animals, and by that name shall have perpetual succession
and a common seal.

2. The object of the said corporation shall be the prevention of cruelty
to animals.

3. The said corporation may sue or be sued, contract and be contracted
with; may acquire by purchase, gift, devise, or bequest, property, real or
personal, and mav lease, manage, control, exchange, mortgage, sell, con-
vey, or dispose of said property. The value of real property to be held
by said corporation at any one time shall not exceed the sum of ten
thousand dollars, and the amount of personal property shall not exceed
five thousand dollars.

4. The officers of said corporation shall consist of a president, three
vice-presidents, one secretary, one treasurer, who, together with the coun-
sel of said corporation, shall be ex oflicio members of the executive com-
mittee, which committee shall consist of five members, in addition to the
ex officio members aforesaid.

5. The foregoing officers shall be chosen from among the members of
the society in such manner as its by-laws may prescribe.

6. A library may be created for the use of the society.

%. The said society, for fixing the terms of admission of its members,
for the government of the same, for the election, changing, and alter-
ing the officers above named, and for the general regulation and man-
agement of its affairs, shall have power to form a code of by-laws not

Yi ole
inconsistent with the laws of the state of Virginia or of the United States,
which code, when formed and adopted at a regular meeting, shall, until
modified or rescinded, be equally binding as this act upon the society,
its officers, and members.

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