Chap. 10.—An ACT to incorporate the Southern Historical Society.
Approved December 19, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the peneral assembly, That General
Jubal A.-Early, Robert M. T. Hunter, General Isaac R. Trim-
ble, Zebulon B. Vance, General M. C. Butler, General A. H.
Colquit, Admiral Raphael Semmes, Colonel W. Call, Gene-
ral William T. Martin, General J. B. Hood, Colonel T. M.
Jack, Honorable A. K. Garland, Governor Isham G. Harris,
General J. S. Marmaduke, General S. B. Buckner, W. W.
Corcoran, General Dabney H. Maury, Colonel George W.
Munford, Colonel Robert -E. Withers, George L. Christian,
the Reverend John William Jones, Robert Stiles, Archer
Anderson, Charles S. Venable, William Preston Johnston,
and James McDonald, and such others as may hereafter be
associated with them, shall be and are hereby constituted a
body politic and corporate under the name and style of The
Southern Historical Society, for the purpose of collecting,
classifying and preserving documents and facts bearing upon
the history ot the late war, illustrating the nature of the
struggle, defining and vindicating the principles which lay
beneath it, and marking the stages through which it was
conducted to its issue; in fact, to gather the archives, to
serve for a truthful and complete history, and cause that his-
tory to be prepared and published: and for these purposes
shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, which it
may alter or amend at its pleasure, and may sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, and

old such estate, real or personal, as may be necessary to
provide an office for the society and a place to preserve its
records and papers, or as may be donated to it for the pur-
poses herein mentioned.

2. The said society may make ordinances, by-laws and
regulations consistent with the laws of this state or of the
United States, for the government of its officers and agents,
the management of its property, and the due and orderly
conducting its affairs. And it shall be lawful for the execu-
tive committee of the Southern historical society, heretofore
existing, to transfer or assign to the society hereby incorpo-
rated, any contracts or outstanding obligations due to the
said pre-existing society. The. society hereby incorporated,
under the powers hereby conferred, may recover, under such
transfer or assignment, the said debts, or sue for a breach of
the terms of any such: contract, by due process of law, in
any of the courts of this commonwealth, or of the United
States, having jurisdiction thereof. :

3. This act shall be subject to the general provisions of
chapter fifty-six of the ‘Code of eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-three, so far as the same are applicable.

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