Chap. 60.—An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act
entitled an act to incorporate The Richmond Harmonic Association,
and to change the name thereof. , ,

Approved February 10, 1876. °

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to in-
corporate The Richmond Harmonic Association, and to
change the name thereof, passed the thirtieth of April, eigh-
teen hundred and .seventy-four, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

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

‘That Henry G. Miller, president; J. A. Moll, vice-president;
Oscar Cranz, Junior, secretary; Samuel Steinlein, cashier;
Bernhard Brauer, treasurer; C. Juergens, librarian; and
Henry Boehmer, Hermann Schmidt, Henry Wenzel, Wil-
liam H. Zimmermann, and John F. Kohler, directors, their
associates and successors, be and the same are hereby consti-
tuted a body politic and corporate, with a view to the promo-
tion of social intercourse and the cultivation of the science of
‘music, under the name and style of The Gesang-Verein Vir-
ginia; and by that name shall have all the general powers
and be subject to all the general restrictions provided by the
Code of Virginia, (edition of eighteen hundred and seventy-
three), or that may have been heretofore or may hereafter
be enacted by the general assembly in regard to such bodies
politic and corporate.

§ 2. The minimum capital of the said corporation shall not.
be less than three thousand dollars, nor shall its maximum
exceed sixty thousand dollars, and the said capital stock shall -
be divided into shares of not less than ten dollars each; and
it shall be lawful for the said carporation to call for and de-
mand from the stockholders, respectfully, all sums of money
by them subscribed, at such time and in such proportions as
it shall deem proper; and may enforce payment by all the
remedies provided by law in respect to other incorporated
companies. The stockholders shall be individually responsi-
ble to the extent of their respective shares and no further;
but no person shall be allowed to become a stockholder in
the said corporation, by purchase or otherwise, without the
consent of a majority of the directors, to be given at a meet-
ing of the board.

3. It shall be lawful tor the said corporation to admit as
contributing members therein, persons who are not stock-
holders, and‘to require of such contributing members such
admission fees, and annual or monthly dues or contributions
as the society may from time to time enact: provided, such
fees and contributions be not in excess of the fees and con-
tributions exacted of stockholding members of the associa-
tion; such contributing members shall be entitled to all the
privileges of members of the association, save and except’
the right to vote at meetings of the stockholders.

§ 4. It shall be lawful for the Gesang-Verein Virginia to
purchase, hold, and grant such estate, real and personal, as
may be required for its use and accommodation as a society:
provided, that it shall not hold or possess at any one time

estate or property to an amount exceeding sixty thousand
dollars.

§ 5. It shall be lawful for the association thus constituted,
in general meeting assembled, to enact all such by-laws as
they may deem necessary and proper for the attainment of
the objects of the associatiqn, not contrary to the conastitu-
tion and laws of the United States or of the commonwealth
of Virginia.

§ 6. This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall
be subject to amendment, modification, or repeal, at the
pleasure of the general assembly.