Chap. 371.—An ACT to incorporate the Houston tobacco association.

Approved February 17, 1898.

1. Be it enacted hy the general assembly of Virginia, That A. B. An-
derson, T. B. Johnson, W. H. Edmonds, R. T. Edwards, R. W. Wat-
kins, D. K. Burton, R. L. DeJarnette, E. 5S. Lacy, T. Ik. Lacy, P. C.
Edmonds, W. I. Johnson, J. J. Rives and J. B. Coats and such other
persons as they may associate with them are hereby chartered and incor-
porated as a body corporate and politic under the corporate name of the
Houston tobacco association.

2. That the object and purpose of the said association 1s to encourage,
promote and regulate the sales of leaf tobacco and the trade therein, in
the town of Houston, 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
repeal, 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
enforce 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 assembling any such called
meeting, and also the number of members necessary to constitute the
game shall be fixed by the by-laws of said association, and its regular
meeting shall be held at such times as said assoelatian shall determine.
). All fines and penalties imposed hy said association upon its mem-
bers may be collected by warrant in the name of its treasurer before anv
justice of the peiwe in the magisterial district wherein said town of
Flouston is situated, and in case any offending or delinquent member
shall remove from the said town of Houston, or shall not reside therein,
then before any justice of the peace within whose civil jurisdiction he
may reside, and said association shall also be authorized to punish by
expulsion 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 exceed
nny dollars for any one offence.

This act shall be in force from its passage.