Chap. 216.—An ACT to render valid the charter of Incorporation of
the Gordonsville building ¢ association, and to legalize all acts done in
pursuance thereof.

Approved March 29, 1877.

Whereas on the fifteenth day of June, eighteen hundred
and seventy-one, the judge of the county court of Orange
county, did grant a charter of incorporation to J. KR. Dil-
worth, H. C. Baker, J. M. Murphy, B. IH. Partlow, F. A. «.
Handy, W. 1. Smith, Kdward J. Fanleoner, J, R. Gentry,
Frank Cowherd, C. Newman, James P. Seott, F. B. Davis,
W. W. Scott, and such other persons as thereafter might be
associated with them under the corporate name of ‘The Gor-
donsville Building Association; and whereas said association
did, on the said fifteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and
seventy-one, commence to transact business as a body politic
and corporate, under the corporate name aferesaid, and bas
continued ever since as a legal corporate body to perform all
the functions and transact all business which appertains to
such associations, under their charter and the general pro-
visions of law regulating the business of such associations,
under the belief that said association bad been legally and
regularly constituted a body politic and corporate under and
by virtue of said charter; and whereas doubts have arisen as
to whether the said charter is a legal and valid charter, by
reason of other facts as well as’ by reason of an act of the
general assembly, passed March thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-one, transferring the authority to grant charters
of incorporation from the county court to the circuit court,
and repealing the act of the general assembly, passed May
twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and embodied
in sections four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten of cbap-
ter sixty-five, and section thirty-four of chapter fifty-seven,
Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, as amended by chapter
one hundred and thirty-eight of Session Acts of eighteen
hundred and sixty-six—seven, and consequently whether any
acts, contracts and agreements made by and in the name of
the said Gordonsville building association are valid: now
therefore, for the purpose of removing such donbt, ani to
render valid the said charter,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That J. R. Dil-
worth, H. C. Baker, J. M. Murphy, B. H. Partlow, F. A. G.
Handy, W.L. Smith, Ed. J. Faulconer, J. R. Gentry, Frank
Cowherd, C. Newman, James P. Scott, F. B. Davis, W. W.
Scott, and their associates and successors be, and they are
hereby incorporated and made a body politic and corporate
under the name and style of the, Gordonsville building agso-
ciation, and as such shall have power to purchase, hold and
convey real and personal property, and shall enjoy such other
privileges and rights as may be necessary and suitable for
the business and purposes set forth in the articles of associa-
tion, not inconsistent with the constitution of the United
States, or the general provisions of law regulating the rights
and privileges of incorporated companies as may be applica-
ble thereto.

2. That all contracts, transactions and agreements, of every
nature and kind whatsoever, whether executory or executed,
and all acts and proceedings whatsoever, made, done or had,
and all rights and titles of every kind and nature, accrued
to, or acquired by, or against, any party or parties, under the
name of the Gordonsville building association, or by or against
the said Gordonsville building association, or by or against
any person whatsoever, in any transaction of any kind or
nature whatsover, in which the name of the Gordonsville
building association bas been used by its agents or officers,
under the said supposed authority granted by the judge of
the county court of Orange county, Virginia, and not incon-
sistent with the constitution or laws of this state, or of the
United States, shall be taken and held to be, and to have
been, at all times, of the same force and effect in all respects,
and none other, as if no question had ever been made as to
the legal validity of the charter granted as aforesaid by the
jadge of the county court of Orange county, and as if the
said charter had been granted by an act of the general as-
sembly on the fifteenth day of June, eighteen handred and
seventy-one; and the said charter may in all cases be pleaded
or given in evilence, with the same effect, in all respects, as
if it had been properly granted, and recorded and lodged in
the office of the secretary of the commonwealth on the said
fifteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

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