Chap. 208.—An ACT to Incorporate Greble Lodge, No. 137, of Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows, in the village of Hampton, in the county of
Elizabeth City.

Approved July 9, 1870.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That Bowen Me-
nagh, EK. E. Woodward, O. P. Fernald, Henry Mebnus, J. Hef-
felfinger, John W. Boyenton, B. H. Huestis, Wm. A. Smith-
W. F. Larrabee, Chas. D. Cake, N. Briggeman, J. G. Black,
ington, and Jos. G. Fulton, and such other persons as are now
or may hereafter be regularly associated with them, be and
they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic and cor-
porate under the name and style of Greble Lodge, Number
One Hundred and Thirty-seven, of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, situated in Hampton, in the county of Elizabeth
City, and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a
common seal, and may sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded, and may purchase and hold, to them and their suc-
cessors, any lands, tenements, chattels and goods, of what kind
soever, as may be conducive to the objects of such associa-
ciation: provided, that the whole amount of property, per-
sonal and real, of said association, shall not be less than two
thousand nor more than fifteen thousand dollars.

2. And be it further enacted, Tnat it shall be lawful for
Greble Lodge, Number One Hundred and Thirty-seven, of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, to borrow a sum not ex-
ceeding ten thousand dollars, at a rate not exceeding the legal
rate of interest, for the purpose of erecting a building suitable
for a hall, giving security for the same by deed of trust or
mortgage bond upon their real estate.

3. And be it further enacted, That the assent of a majority
of all the members of said association shall be necessary for
the purchase or sale of any estate, either real or personal, in the
name and for the benefit of said association.

4, This act shall be in force from its passage.