Chap. 662.—An ACT to incorporate the Saint Andrew’s association.

Approved February 27, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Right
Reverend Francis M. Whittle, Reverend Thomas Semmes (rector of
Saint Andrew’s church, Richmond, Virginia), J. H. Banks and Henrv
Moltz (wardens of said church, Grace K. Arents, O. H. Funsten, J. M.
Ball, C. C. Baughman, and James C. Lamb, and their successors and
associates, be, and they are hereby, constituted a body politic and cor-
porate, by the name and style of Saint Andrew’s association, and by that
name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, with the right
to change the same at will, and may contract and be contracted with,
sue and be sued, and plead and be impleaded.

2. The said corporation shall have power to take by gift, grant, devise
or bequest property of everv description, real, personal, or mixed, and
to hold and use the same for the purpose of maintaining the benevolent
and charitable work now maintained by individual effort in connection
with Saint Andrew’s Protestant Episcopal church, at Richmond, Vir-
ginia, by means of a library, kindergartens, schools, and guilds, and
for the purpose of developing, enlarging, and extending the said work
by the means aforesaid and by establishing homes for the friendless,
the sick, and the orphaned, and by such other means as the said cor-
poration may deem necessary, whether of a like kind with those men-
tioned or not. And the said corporation shall have power to hold, use,

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manage, invest, sell, assign, encumber, or otherwise dispose of its prop-
erty, real, personal, or mixed, in such manner as it shall deem best cal-
culated to promote the objects of its incorporation. But the property
held by said corporation at any one time shall not exceed in value the
sum of eight hundred thousand dollars.

3. The said corporation shall have power to make and adopt a consti-
tution and by-laws and such rules and regulations (not contrary to the
laws of this state nor of the United States) as it shall deem necessary or
proper for the management and control of its affairs; and it shall have
power (in the manner prescribed by its constitution or by-laws) to select
from among its members such officers and committees as it shall deem
proper, and invest them with such duties as it shall see fit; and to employ
all such teachers, instructors, agents, and assistants, and, generally, to
do all such things as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of its
incorporation.

4. The persons named in this charter as members of the said corpo-
ration, and their successors and associates, shall have the power to in-
crease their number to a number not exceeding fifteen by the selection
of such persons as they may choose to associate with them; and upon
all such persons and their successors shall be devolved all the rights,
powers, privileges, and duties which are conferred or imposed on the
persons named in this charter.

5. The persons named in this charter as members of the said cor-
poration, and their successors and associates, shall have power to fill
any vacancy which may occur in their body from any cause declared by
the by-laws of said corporation to be sufficient to create a vacancy, but
the rector of Saint Andrew’s church and the two wardens of the said
church shall always be ex officio members of the said corporation.

6. A majority of the persons who at any given time are members
of the said corporation shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
of its business at any meeting of the said corporators.

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