Chap. 43.—An ACT to incorporate the Agricultural and Mechanical
Society of Alexandria.

Approved January 15, 1875.

1. Be it enacted by the general as8embly of Virginia, That
General William H. F. Lee, Robert Beverley, S. S. Bradford,
Honorable John F. Lewis, Governor William Smith, John
Green, John B. Smoot, Arthur Herbert, Andrew Jamieson,
Chalkley Gillingham, Robert M. Lawson, P. B. Hooe, J. T.
Beckham, Edward C. Daniels, and A. J. Wedderburn, and
such others as they may hereafter associate with them, are
hereby incorporated, under the title of the Potomac Agri-
cultural and Meehanical Society, of Alexandria, Virginia.
The organization shall be empowered to issue stock not to
exceed ono hundred ‘thousand dollars, or to be leas than five
thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty-five
dollars each, to be collectable as the directors may decide;
to hold real estate not to exceed two hundred acres of land,
and to be governed by such constitution and by-laws as may
be decided upon by the society, not inconsistent with the
laws of the commonwealth.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.