Chap. 466.—An ACT to incorporate the Invalids’ home association of Newport
News, Virginia.

Approved February 27, 1804.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That G
B. West, John G. Livezey, T. J. Barham, J. A. Williams, W. H. Lan.
don, John Lowery, T. K. Chandler, J. A. Willett, C. M. Braxton, G
W. Burcher, J. H. Crone, J. M. Curtis, W. A. Post, Edwin Phillips
R. G. Bickford, E. N. Eubank, W. B. Vest, L. P. Stearnes, E. Clayton.
L B. Manville, W. S. Boyenton, C. H. Lohman and D. S. Jones, ot
Newport News, Virginia, or such of them as shall accept this act
with such other persons as may hereafter be associated with them
and their successors, be, and they are hereby, constituted a corpora
tion to be known as the Invalids’ home association, by which name
they shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, which they
may alter at pleasure; may sue and be sued, and shall have and exer
cise all the rights, powers and privileges pertaining to corporations
and necessary for the purposes of this act.
2. The corporation shall have the following powers in addition to
the general powers above mentioned, and these powers, or such of
them as it shall exercise, are the purposes for which the corporation
shall exist:

First. To maintain at Newport News, in Warwick county, of this
commonwealth, a hospital for the medical and surgical aid, treat-
ment and cure of persons who are sick, deformed or suffering from
bodily injuries.

Second. To instruct and train suitable persons in the duties of
nurses for the sick.

3. To enable the corporation to exercise the powers hereby granted,
or any of them, it may, either absolutely or as trustee, acquire by
purchase, gift or otherwise all kinds of property, real, personal and
mixed, including the stock and bonds of corporations and the obli-
gations of individuals, and may hold and use the same, and take the
rents, issues, profits and income thereof for the purposes aforesaid ;
and may encumber by deed of trust, mortgage or otherwise, sell,
transfer and dispose of the said property in any manner, at any
time or times and on any terms.

4, The corporation shall have full power to exclude such forms of
disease or sickness, malformation and bodily injury and such ind1-
vidual cases of disease or sickness, malformation and bodily injury
as it may deem unsafe, improper or impracticable to admit to its
hospital; shall have power to charge and collect fees for medical and
surgical treatment and incidental expenses, and to remit the same
at its pleasure, and shall have power to prescribe and enforce such
regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and
of this commonwealth, as it may deem proper for the conduct of its
affairs and for the management of its hospital.

5. The corporation shall, when fully organized, consist of twenty-
three members. The corporators hereinbefore named, or such of
them as shall accept this act, shall, within one year after such ac-
ceptance, elect the remainder of the twenty-three members (should
any of the incorporators fail to accept this act), and thereafter va-
cancies in the corporation caused by death or resignation, or other-
wise, shall be filled in whatever manner the corporation may, by a
majority vote, prescribe.

6. The officers of the corporation shall be a president, three vice-
presidents, a secretary, a treasurer, a superintendent, and such others
as the corporation may appoint. No person shall be eligible for
the office of superintendent, or for any other office under the corpo-
ration which requires independent exercise of medical or surgical
knowledge or skill, except physicians or surgeons who are duly
licensed by the Jaws of Virginia.

7. There shall be an annual meeting of the members of the cor-
poration. At all meetings members of the corporation shall be en-
titled to vote by proxy, and, after it shall have been fully organized,
twelve members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business.

8. The consolations of religion may be extended to the patients
in the care of the corporation in whatever form the patients may
desire; but no influence shall be exerted within the hospital in the
special interest of any particular religious sect or denomination.
9. This act shall be in force from its passage.