CHAP. 731.—An ACT to incorporate Assembly park association.
Approved March 4, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That A. P. Funkhouser, John Paul, H. N. Whitesel, Mon-
roe Funkhouser, A. E. Andes, G. W. Hedrick, J. L. Long,
and J. D. Whitesel, and their associates and successors,
be, and they are hereby, constituted a body corporate and
politic by the name and style of Assembly park associa-
tion, and by that name and title shall be known and have
perpetual succession, shall have power to sue and be sued,
to plead and be impleaded, to contract and be contracted
with, to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, use, hold,
grant and convey property, both real and personal, and to
improve the same as the board of directors of said com-
pany shall deem proper; to lease, let or dispose of, in fee
or otherwise, any part of their property, real, personal or
mixed, with or without improvements; to have, use and
alter a common seal; to make such by-laws and regulations
as shall best enable the association to conduct its business
and carry out its purposes; provided no regulation shall
be in conflict with the laws of Virginia or of the United

tates.

2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less
than one thousand dollars nor more than twenty-five thou-
sand dollars, to be issued in shares of not less than ten
dollars each nor more than one hundred dollars each par
value.

3. The board of directors of said association shall not
be less than three in number, and they may elect a presi-
dent, secretary, treasurer and such other officers as they
may deem proper, one or more of which offices may be filled
by the same person. The persons named in this charter
shall be directors of said association until their successors
are elected by the stockholders.

4. The said company is hereby authorized to fence or
enclose its lands, or any part thereof, and post the same
aecording to law, and all persons are hereby prohibited
and forbidden to enter upon any of the lands so enclosed
or posted without the consent of the president or manager
of said association. Any person entering such enclosed
or posted lands without the consent of the president or
manager, or who shall in any way violate any rule or reg-
ulation prescribed by the board of directors of said com-
pany, shall be deemed guilty of unlawful and malicious
trespass, and may be summarily ejected from said grounds
by the officers or servants of the company, and shall be
liable to be prosecuted as is provided by law for such tres-

es.

5. The judge of the county court of Rockingham county
shall, upon application, appoint such persons as the presi-
dent or manager of said company may name; and such
persons so appointed shall be authorized to attend any fair
or meeting held upon said company’s grounds and to act
as conservators of the peace. They shall have the right
and authority to arrest and eject from the grounds of the
company any person or persons who shall create any dis-
turbance or who shall commit any breach of the peace, or
violate in any way any of the rules or regulations of the
company. Such persons so appointed, while acting as
conservators of the peace, shall be compensated by the
company.

6. The said company is authorized to construct, own,
operate, or lease hotels, training schools, booths, stands,
stables or other buildings for the entertainment, lodging,
boarding or keeping of man and beast upon its lands or
those leased by it; to hold and conduct fairs, exhibitions,
Chautauqua and other assemblies and meetings, schools
of languages, art, music and other schools; to transact the
usual operations and business of a building association;
to cut, saw, sell and manufacture lumber; to manufac-
ture and sell brick and tiles and other merchandise; to
quarry, hew and sell stone; to acquire, erect and maintain
buildings, machinery and structures needful for the prose-
cution of its business; to Jay off its real estate into
squares, town lots and otherwise, as may be deemed best;
to make and grade streets and avenues in and about and
through said real estate; to construct electric and water-
works, or either, and operate the same, and do anything
in relation to the subjects mentioned that a private indi-
vidual might do.

7. At any fair or exhibition the association may offer
such prizes or premiums to be competed or contended for
as the board of directors may determine; and the associa-
tion may charge such fees for admission to its grounds at
any time as the board of directors may from time to time
prescribe.

8. The said company may sell membership certificates
entitling the holder thereof to admission to its grounds
for a term, or for the life of the holder whose name it
shall bear.

9. The chief office of the company shall be at Harri-
sonburg, Virginia, and the company shall pay taxes due
the commonwealth in lawful money of the United States,
and not in coupons.

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

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