Chap. 311.—An ACT to incorporate The Bridzewater Lodge, No. 120,
Independent Order of Odd-Fellows.

Approved March 80, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
D. A. Bucher, J. D. Bucher, James D. Dinkle, David Link,
A. D. Lindsey, J. H. Lindsey, William H. Groves, W. H.
Karickhofe, William H. Bricker, P. H. Snyder, ‘A. Niswan-
der, J. B. Dixon, William C. Dixon, H. Smalls, George Sheets,
George W. Murray, P. C. Bowman, N. K. Idson, J. G. Minor,
and M. H. Rodgers, 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
corporate, under the name and style of Bridgewater Lodge,
number one hundred and twenty, Independent Order of
Odd-Fellows, situated in the town of Bridgewater, county
of Rockingham, state of Virginia, and by that name shall
have perpetual succession and a common seal; may sue an
be sued, plead and be impleaded; may purchase and hold t
them and their successors any lands, tenements, chattel
and goods of whatsoever kind as may be conducive to th
objects of such association, not to exceed in value fiftee:
thousand dollars.

2. It shall be lawful for the said lodge to borrow a sur
not exceeding ten thousand dollars, at a rate not exceedin:
the legal rate of interest, for the purpose of erecting a build
ing suitable for a ball or other purposes, which they or thei
successors may see fit to erect, giving securities for the same
by deed of trust or mortgage bonds upon the real estate o.
said association. ,

3. The assent of a majority of all the members of said
association, shall be necessary for the purchase of any estate
either real or personal, in the name and‘for the benefit ot
8:.1d association.

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