Chap. 234.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5, 6 and 7 of an act entitled
an act to disband the Richmond light infantry blues and to incorporate the
uchmond light infantry blues’ association, approved February 6, 1877.

Approved February 12, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
lions five, six and seven of an act entitled an act to disband the
Richmond light infantry blues and to incorporate the Richmond
light infantry blues’ association, approved February sixth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
ag follows:

$5. Said association is empowered, in addition to the powers
above granted, to organize from such of its members as are capable
of performing military service, one or more military companies (not
excveding five) in addition to the one already organized, each com-
pany to consist of not less than forty-one nor more than one hundred
men, aud when one or more such additional companies shal] have
been organized, the said company or companies, together with the
company already organized, may be organized into a battalion of in-
fantry, and the said battalion shall have such officers as are now or
may hereafter be prescribed by law for a battalion of infantry.

The company or companies organized under this act, and the bat-
talion when formed, shall be subject to all laws now in force touch-
Ing volunteer militia, except as follows

First. Said company or companies and the officers of said hbat-

talion, when formed, may wear the uniform worn by the Richmond
light infantry blues in eighteen hundred and sixty ,and prior thereto,
but the said association may adopt such changes ‘therein as may be
approved by the governor.

Second. The oflicers of said company or companies and the officers
of the said battalion shall be elected and vacancies filled in the
manner prescribed by the laws governing the volunteer militia,
except that the president of the Richmond light infantry blues’ asgo-
ciation shall prescribe at all elections, and such elections shall be
subject to the ratification of the said association in general meeting,
and when so ratified, the said elections shall be certified bv the
president of said association to the governor, who may thereupon
issue his commission to such officers.

Third. All elections to membership in said companies shall be
subject to ratification by said association in general meeting.

§ 6. The governor of Virginia may at any time in his discretion
revoke all supervisory power over said company or companies herein
above granted to said association, and place said company or com-
panies upon a footing in all respects indentical with that of the
other volunteer militia.

§ 7. Each company organized under this act may, without the con-
currence of said association, enroll forty contributing members, upon
the terms and for the purposes described by the laws governing the
volunteer militia, but such contributing members shall not, by reason
of being so enrolled, acquire any rights as members of said associa-
tion, unless with the concurrence thereof,

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