Chap. 256.—An ACT to incorporate The Newbern Benevolent Society,
in Pulaski County, Virginia.

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Approved March 29, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Peter Cleaver, Isam Erskine, James Montgomery, Daniel
Hall, Burwell Houston, and Charles Christian, 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 The
Newburn Benevolent Society, situated in the town of New-
bern, Pulaski county, Virginia; and by that name shall have
perpetual succession and a common seal; may sue and be
sued; plead and be impleaded; and may purchase and hold
to them and their successors, any lands, tenemenfs, chattels,
and goods, of what kind soever, as may be conducive to the
objects of such association, not to exceed in value one thou-
sand dollars.

2. It shall be lawful for the said society to borrow a sum
not exceeding five hundred dollars, at a rate not exceeding
the legal rate of interest, for the purpose of erecting a build-
ing, suitable for a hall, giving security for the same by deed
of trust or mortgage bond upon their real estate.

3. The assent of a majority of all the members of said
society shall be necessary for the purchase or sale of any
estate, either real or personal, in the name and for the bene-
fit of said society. se |

4, That in the event of said society becoming extinct, or
ceasing to be a society according to their by-laws, then all
the real property, or proceeds thereof, is to revert to the
trustees of the colored Methodist Episcopal church of the
town of Newbern, Pulaski county, Virginia, and for its sole
benefit. |

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