Chap. 38.—An ACT to incorporate the Christian women’s city mission of the
city of Richmond, Virginia.

Approved January 8, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Mistress
A. Y. Stokes, Mistress Raleigh Colston, Mistress J. H. Claiborne, Mis-
tress Charles Bolling, and Mistress John Addison, and such other persons
as are now or may be hereafter associated with them, are hereby declared
to be a body politic and corporate by the name, style and title of
the Christian women’s city mission of Richmond, Virginia, and by that
name shall be known in law, and shall have perpetual succession and a
common seal, with the right to change the same at will, and shall have
power to sue and be sucd, contract and be contracted with, plead and be
impleaded, and have all the rights and privileges of a corporation, and
be subject to all of the rules, regulations and restrictions, and do all acts,
and enjoy all the powers incident to similar corporations in general,
under and subject to the laws of this commonwealth.

2. That the objects of said city mission shall be to provide for the
indigent poor, and to dispense charity in the citv of Richmond, Virginia.

3. That the members of said corporation who are, or may be, entitled
to vote at any election of officers, shall have full power and authority
to make and adopt a constitution and by-laws, and to prescribe rules
and regulations for the government of said corporation and the promo-
tion of its interests, and for the admission and expulsion of members,
and from time to time to alter and amend the same: provided, that the
same be not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United
States and of the state of Virginia.

4. That the officers of said corporation shall consist of a president,
and such others as may be deemed necessary, and they shall be elected
in the manner and at such times as the constitution or by-laws may
preserihe,

5. That the said corporation may take and aequire, by purchase, gift,
devise, bequests, or otherwise, and hold real and personal estate, and
lease, rent, scll, encumber, or otherwise dispose of the same in such
miaddner as may sect most advantigeous: provided, it shall not hold at
ay one time realestate of greater value than twenty thousand dollars:
and provided further, that the said) property, or any Income derived
therefrom, shall be used wholly for the parposes of said corporation,

6. That said Christian women’s city mission, being purely charitable
and benevolent, shall be exempt frome the payment of all taxes, both
state and municipal.

7. This act shall be in force frem its passage.