Chap. 120.—An ACT to incorporate the South Boston tobacco company.

Approved January 26, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That H. A. Ed-
mondson, W. H. Shepherd, R. R. Noblin, James A. Glenn, R. R. Mot-
ley, R. M. C. Glenn, A. B. Willingham, John W. Hodges, J. W. Easley,
R. L. Buntin, C. M. Jordan, S. C. Morton, R. H. Edmondson, S. M.
Glenn, and such other persons as they may associate with them, are
hereby chartered and incorporated as a body corporate and politic
under the corporate name of the South Boston tobacco association.

2. That the object and purpose of the said association is to encourage,
promote and regulate the sales of leaf tobacco and the trade therein in
the town of South Boston, Virginia, in so far as the same may be done
under and in accordance with the laws of this commonwealth.

3. The said association shall be authorized and empowered to make
all necessary rules and by-laws, as a majority of its members may deem
proper for the promotion of its objects and the purposes of its incorpo-
ration, and such rules, by-laws, and regulations, to alter, amend, or re-
peal, whenever so determined by a majority vote of any duly constituted
meeting of said association.

4. The said association shall have power to elect all such officers as
may be required for its organization and successful operation, and to en-
force the proper observance of all its rules, regulations, and by-laws by
such fines and penalties as a majority of members present at any called
meeting may determine to impose, and by expulsion of a member or
members by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at such called
meeting, but the mode and manner of assem)ling any such called meet-
ing, and also the number of members necessary to constitute the same
shall be fixed by the by-laws of the said association, and its regular
meeting shall be held at such times as said association shall determine.

5. All fines and penalties imposed by said association upon its mem-
bers may be collected by warrant in the naine of its treasurer before any
justice of the peace in the magisterial district wherein said town of Seuth
Boston is situated, and incase any offending or delinquent member shall
remove from the said town of South Boston, or shall not reside therein,
then before any, justice ef| the peace within whoseociviljurisdiction he
may reside, and said association shall also be authorized to punish by ex.
pulsion any member who may neglect or refuse to pay any fines im.
posed on him for more than five days after the same shall have been im.
posed, but no fine or penalty imposed by said association shall exceec
fittv dollars for any one offence.

6. This act shall be in force froin its passage.