Chap. 61.—An ACT to revive and re-enact the act to Incorporate the
Female Orphan Asylum of Fredericksburg.

Approved February 10, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the act
passed the twenty-fifth day of February, eighteen hundred
and fifty-six, reviving and re-enacting the act passed the
third day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, to
incorporate the Female orphan asylum in Fredericksburg,
be and the same is hereby revived and ro-enacted as follows:

§ 1. That the subscribers of two dollars and over to an in-
stitution established in the town of Fredericksburg for the
education of destitute female orphans, and called the Female
orphan asylum, or so many of such subscribers as shall at-
tend, shall be empowered to elect a board of sixteen mana-
gers, who shall be divided into four equal classes, in such
manner as they shall see fit; the first class to serve four
years; the second, three years; the third, two years; the
fourth, one year; and on the first Monday in May of every
year thereafter, at such place as shall be designated by the
managers for the time being, to elect one-fourth of the mana-
gers of said institution; and the managers so elected shall,
at their first meeting after such election, choose two of their
number first and second directors thereof. The managers
thus elected and their successors, shall be and they are hereby
constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of The
Directors and Managers of the Female Orphan Asylum; and
by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common
seal: provided, that in case it should at any time happen
that an election of managers shall not be made upon any day
when, pursuant to this act, it ought to have been made, the
said corporation shall not for that cause be deemed to be dis-
solved ; but it shall and may be lawful on any other day within
thirty days thereafter, at such place as shall have been desig-
nated in manner aforesaid, to hold and to make an election of
‘such managers; and until such election shall be made, the
managers for the time being shall continue to act.

§ 2. In case of the refusal to act, or the resignation, death,
-or other disability of the directors, or of one or more of the
managers so elected, the vacancy thereby occasioned shall
be supplied by the remaining managers, or a majority of
them.

§ 3. The managers of the said orphan asylum and their
successors, by the ‘name aforesaid, shall have power to con-
tract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded in any court of law or equity within this com-
monwealtb; and by that name to take, hold, and retain any
property, real or personal, to and for the use of the said in-
stitution.

§ 4. The said managers, or a majority of them, shall have
power to make such ordinances, rules, and regulations, from
time to time, as they may think proper, and necessary for
the good conduct and government of the said institution.

§5. They are moreover authorized to receive subscriptions
for the use of said asylum, and in case any person shall fail
to comply with his or her subscription heretofore made, or
hereafter to be made, to enforce the payment thereof by
warrant, before a single magistrate, when the sum shall not
exceed fifty dollars, or by suit in any court of record having
jurisdiction, when the same shall exceed fifty dollars.

§6. The managers for the time being, or a majority of
them, shall have the management and application of the
subscriptions, funds, and estate of the said asylum, and au-
thority, at their discretion, to receive into the institution
such female orphan children as shall be deemed by them fit
objects of charity. They shall moreover have power to ap-
point, and at pleasure to displace, a secretary, treasurer, and
one or more instructresses of said institution; and may, if
by them deemed expedient, take from the treasurer so ap-
pointed, bond with adequate security, conditioned to account
annually, or oftener, if required by the board of managers,
for all money or other property of said institution coming
to his or her hands, and to disburse the same from time to
time upon the requisition of the said board of managers.

§ 7. The legislature shall have power at any time hereafter
to alter, amend, or repeal this act.

§ 8. This act shal! be in force from its passage.