CHAP. 611.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 48, chapter
5, of act approved February 13, 1890 entitled an act to change
the name of the town of Goodson to the city of Bristol and
provide a new charter for the same.

Approved March 5, 180v.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section forty-eight of chapter five of an act approved
February twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled
an act to change the name of the town of Goodson to the
city of Bristol and provide a new charter for the same, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§48. The city council may, in the name of and for the use
of the city, contract loans or cause to be issued certifi-
cates of debt or bonds: provided, no such certificate of
debt or bond shall be issued except by a two-thirds vote
of the council, but such loans, certificates, or bonds shall
not be irredeemable for a period greater than thirty-four
vears: provided, further, that the council of said city may,
upon the application of the president of any company in-
corporated by the general assembly for a work of internal
improvement or other purpose submit to the qualified
voters of the said city, in the manner now prescribed by
law, the question of subscribing to the capital stock of
such company such an amount, not exceeding seventy-five
thousand dollars to any one company, and upon such
terms and conditions as may be stated in the order of the
council submitting the question. Said city of Bristol is
authorized to subscribe to the capital stock of such com-
pany any amount not exceeding seventy-five thousand
dollars to any one company, and upon such terms and
conditions as may be stated in the order of said council
as aforesaid; and if the requisite number of votes, as pro-
vided in chapter fifty-one of the code of Virginia, be cast
in favor of the subscription, then it shall be the duty of
said council to make said subscription upon the terms and
conditions stated in its order, and to levy and collect such
an amount of taxes per annum as may be necessary to
pay the interest and provide a sinking fund on the. bonds
of the city which may be issued for the purpose of paying
such subscription.

All contracts for erection of public improvements within
the jurisdiction of the city council shal] be let to the
lowest bidder, and notices shall be given at least thirty
days before the work is finally let, by advertising in one
or more newspapers published in the city, and the party
to whom said contract shall be let shall give such bond as
the council may require; but in no event shall any con-
tract be let to any member of the city council, nor shall
any member have any interest in such contract.

2. This act shal] be in force from its passage.

Chap. 612 —An ACT to incorporate the Eastern Shore Historical
Society of Virginia.

Approved March 5, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That John W. Edmunds, John S. Wise, Abel T. Ashby, T.
H. Bayley Browne, Griffin C. Callahan, John E. West,
George W. Easter, and such other persons as may here-
after be associated with them, be, and they are hereby, in-
corporated and made a body politic and corporate under
the name of the Eastern Shore historical society of Virgi-
nia, having for its object the collection, preservation, and
diffusion of knowledge, civil, literary and biographical,
and the collection of all historical facts usually recorded
in local history that may be connected or identified with
the past and present history of the Eastern Shore of Vir-
ginia, and to record events that shall occur in its future.

2. The said corporation shall have power toadopt a seal
and to change the same, to sue and be sued, to acquire by
lease or purchase, a suitable building or room, library,
furniture for the uses of the corporation ; to borrow money
for such purposes and issue bonds therefor, and to secure
the same by mortgage or deed of trust, and generally to
acquire by gift, devise, bequest or otherwise. and to hold,
transfer, and convey any and all such real or personal pro-
perty as it may have and may be necessary to carry out
the purposes of this corporation: provided, it shall not
hold real estate exceeding in vaiue the sum of fifty thou-
sand dollars.

3. The said corporation shall have power to make and
adept a constitution and by-laws not inconsistent with the

“we of the commonwealth, rules and regulations for the ad-
mission, government, suspension and expulsion of its mem-
bers,the collection of fees and dues,the election of its officers,
and to define their duties,and for the safe-keeping of its pro-
perty and the management of its affairs, and to alter.
modify and change such constitution, by-laws, rules, and
regulations from time to time.

4. All interest of any member of said corporation in
its property shall terminate and vest in the corporation
upon his ceasing to be a member thereof by death, resig-
nation, expulsion, or otherwise.

5. The persons first named in this act, or such of them
as shall accept the provisions thereof, shall continue the
first board of directors of the said society. At such first
meeting and at every annual meeting so many directors
shall be elected as may be prescribed by the by-laws and
regulations of said society, who shall continue in office
until their successors shall be elected and qualified.

6. The annual meeting of the society shall be held at
such place and times as are prescribed by the constitution
and by-laws.

7. All taxes and debts due, or may become due, by said
society to the state of Virginia shall be paid in lawful
money of the United States and not in coupons.

8. This act shal] be in force from its passage, but the
general assembly of the state of Virginia reserves the
right to modify, alter or repeal this act at any time here-
after.