Chap. 146.—An ACT to incorporate The Ladies Memorial Association
of Westmoreland County.

Approved March 17, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Mistress R. L. T. Beale, Mistress John Murphy, Miss Olin
Davis, Mistress W. W. Walker, Mistress James Walker,
Mistress C. N. Uncut, Mistress Robert J. Sanford, Mistress
Edwin Hutt, Mistress W. W. Brown, Mistress W. M. Walker,
Mistress Lucy C. Chandler, Mistress John W. Harvey, Mis-
tress Charles H. Sanford, Mistress Robert J. Washington,
Mistress John E. Wilson, Mistreas R. B. Lewis, Mistress
George W. Lewis, Mistress William W. Wirt, and Misses
Lizzie Baker, Nena Brown, and Miss Rust, and suck other
persons as may be hereafter associated with them, shall be
and they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic
and corporate, under the name and style of The Ladies’
Memorial Association of Westmoreland County, for the pur-
pose of erecting within the said county, a monument in
memory of the soldiers of said county, who were killed or
died in the service of the confederate states; and a statue of
General Robert E. Lee, or either or both. ,

2. The said corporation may sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded; and may acquire and hold personal property to
an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, and land,
within the said county, not exceeding five acres; and gene-
rally shall be invested with all the privileges and powers
generally conferred on'such bodies politic and corporate.
3. The board of supervisors of said county of Westmore-
land, with the concurrence of the county judge of said county
entered of record, may grant to said association the privilege
of erecting said monuments, or either of them, in the public
square of said county, at the county seat thereof; and if the
same shall be so erected with the consent of said board and
judge, it shall not be lawful thereafter for the authorities of
said county, or any other person or persons whatever, to dis-
turb or interfere with any monument so erected, or to pre-
vent said association from taking all proper measures and
exercising all proper means for the protection, prese-vation,
and care of any such monument. |

4, Said association when it shall have completed any such
monument, may, by a unanimous vote of its members, turn
over to the said county of Westmoreland any such monu-
ment; and if the board of supervisors of said county, with
the assent of said judge entered of record, shall agree to. ac-
cept the same, such monument shall thereafter be a part of
the public property of said county, which shall be thereafter
charged with the protection, preservation, and care of the
same.

5. This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall be
subject to any amendment, modification, or alteration by the
general assembly of Virginia, which it may be lawful for
such assembly to make.