Chap. 575.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to incorpo-
rate the Church home for infirm and disabled colored persons in the county
of Brunswick, approved April 22, 1882.

Approved March 8, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
act of the general assembly of Virginia entitled an act to incorpo-
rate the Church home for infirm and disabled colored persons in the
county of Brunswick, approved April twenty-second, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

Whereae certain charitably and benevolently disposed persons
have contributed of their means a sum of money for the erection
and equipment of a building to be located in the county of Bruns-
wick, in the state of Virginia, and to be known as the Church home
for infirm and disabled colored people; and

Whereas the said charitably and benevolently disposed persons,
for the purpose of more effectually carrying out the object they have
In view, desire a charter of incorporation:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Robert Strange, Emmett Buford, John Binney, S. D. McConnell and
F. E. Buford, and their associates and successors, are hereby made a
corporation by the name and style of the Church home for infirm
and disabled colored people.

§ 2. The object of this corporation shall be the building and
maintenance, by volunteer contribution, of a hospital for the care
and treatment of infirm and disabled colored persons.

§ 3. The affairs of the said corporation shall be managed by a
board of trustees, to be selected by the corporators hereinbefore
named at their first meeting.

§ 4. The board of trustees so selected shall have power to make
such rules and regulations for the government of the said hospital,
and the affairs generally of the corporation, as are necessary for its
proper management and government, and not contrary to the laws of
this state; and they shall have power to determine the location, to
purchase the ground, material for and to adopt the plan and arrange-
ment of the buildings; and may, whenever in their judgment it will
be prudent and best for the interests of the said Church home, by
deed, convey all the property, rights, interest and franchise thereof,
either to the board of domestic missions of the Protestant Episcopal
church of the United States or to the diocesan board of Virginia.

§ 5. The said Church home for infirm and disabled colored people
may take and hold real and personal property suitable for the objects
v the corporation, not exceeding in all the value of fifty thousand

ollars.

§ 6. The said Church home for infirm and disabled colored people
may receive from any person or persons voluntary donations in real
or personal property or money for the benefit and maintenance there-
of, either by deed, devise or otherwise.
8 7. In case the real estate upon which the said Church bome is
situated should fail to be used for the purposes set forth in this
charter for a period of five years consecutively, it shall revert to the
grantors or their heirs or devisees.

§ 8. This act shall be in force from its passage.