Chap. 212.—An ACT to incorporate The Gloucester Monument Asso-
ciation.

Approved March 25, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That General
William B. Taliaferro, Colonel William K. Perrin, Colonel
William T. Robins, Reverend William E. Wiatt, Major Pey-
ton N. Page, Captain J. B. Browne, Captain T. W. Nicolson,
William V. Heywood, William Ap. V. Jones, James N.
Stubbs, William H. Martin, William C. Dutton, William F.
Thomas, James Diggs, and Marius Jones, and such other
persons as they may associate with them, and their succes.
sors, be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate,
under the name and style of The Gloucester Monume:.
Association, and by that name and etyle shall have perpettz:
succession and a common seal; may sue and be sued, ples.
and be impleaded; and in all respects be invested with th.
rights and privileges conferred by, and be subject to the r:-
strictions and regulations prescribed for corporations in tt
Code of Virginia of cighteen hundred and seventy-three, =:
far as the same may be applicable to such an association azd.
not inconsistent with this act.

2. The object and purposes of this corporation shall be
hold and beautify ground upon which to erect a monument
to the memory of the Confederate soldiers who perisbed i:
or from the effects of the late war, from the county of Gloc.
ce8ter, and to mark and identify the graves of such soldiers
and other persons as may hereafter be interred therein; and
the operations of said association shall be confined to these
objects.

3. To the promotion of these objects, the corporation mst
acquire and hold real and personal estate, not exceeding i:
the aggregate ten thousand dollars, and may invest its funds
in such manner as may seem to it best.

4. The said corporation may sell and convey any lots i2
its grounds for purposes of burial of others than Confederate
soldiers.

5. The officers of the association shall consist of a pres
dent, three vice-presidents, a secretary and treasurer, whe
with nine other members of the association, shall constitute
an executive committee, charged with the management of
the affairs of the association, and five members of the ssid
executive committee shall constitute a quorum for the tran+
action of business. , |
_ 6. The said executive committee shall elect the officers ¢
the association, prescribe their terms of office, and make
such rules and regulations as may be necessary to promote
the objects of the association; and shall fill all vacancies in
their own body in case elections are not made by the men-
bers of the association under the rules and regulations of tbe
said corporation.

7. The corporators named in this act, with such others 3
they may associate with them, shall, at the first meeting
after the passage of this act, declare who may be member
of the association, and on what conditions membership may
be-acquired, sybject to subsequent change by the executive
committee ; and they shall proceed to organize the corpors-
tion by the election of the officers and executive committe?
herein provided for.

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