Chap. 219.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of chapter 92 of an act of
the general assembly of Virginia of 1803-'94 entitled ‘An act to Incorporate the
American mutual benefit society,’? approved January, 1804, by changing its
name to the Mutual benefit fraternity.

Approved February 7, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of chapter ninety-two of an act of the general assembly of Virginia
of eighteen hundred and ninety-three and eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, entitled an ‘‘Act to incorporate the American mutual benefit: so-
ciety’? be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$1. That Galen H. Coon, of the city of New York, New York; H.
W. Flournoy, Tazewell Ellett, 8. Galeski, L. L. Powell, Grayson Bur-
russ, Phillip B. Shield and T. H. Fox, of the city of Richmond, Vir
ginia, and their associates, successors and assigns, be, and are hereby,
constituted a body corporate and politic by the name of the Mutua!
benefit fraternity, and by that name shall be known in law, and shal
have perpetual succession, and shall have power to sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded in all courts, and may make and have a com.
mon seal and alter the same at pleasure, and shall have, exercise anc
enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges pertaining to corporate bodie:
and necessary for the purposes hereinafter set forth; and may make a con.
stitution, by-laws, rules and regulations consistent with the existing
laws of the state for the government of all under its authority, for th
management of its estates and properties and for the due and order]
conduct of its affairs, the general objects of said society being:

First. To fraternally unite all persons of sound bodily health and gooc
moral character.

Second. To give all material aid in its power to its members and thos

dependent on them.
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Third. To establish a fund for the relief of sick and distressed mem-

bers, and for the payment of benefits after certain periods of member-
ship.
- Fourth. To establish a benefit funeral fund from which the family or
dependents of members of said society who shall have complied with all
its rules and regulations, and on satisfactory evidence that the necessities
of whose family require such aid, may receive at the death of such
member a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.

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