CHAP. 149.—An ACT to amend and re-ennet seetions 1, 2, and 3 of
an act eniitled an aet to incorporate the Masonic Mutual Life Assn-
rance Association of Norfolk, Virginia, approved February 26, 1876,
and to change the name of said Association.

Approved February 27, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first, second and third sections of an act entitled an act to
incorporate the Masonic mutual life assurance association of
Norfolk, Virginia, approved on the twenty-sixth day of Feb-
ruary, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

\ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
John L. Roper, Daniel Llusted, Frederick Greenwood, Charles
F. Greenwood, H. C. Whitehead, S$. N. Brickhouse, C. W. Kel-
linger, W. H. Holmes, J. T. Redmond, J. E. Wright, Henry
Jordan, R. A. Dobie, E. E. Guy, John Walters, A. C. Gale,
A. Myers, J. WW. Cabron, W.D. Aydiott, H.S. Upshur, and their
associates, be and they are hereby created a body politic and
corporate, with perpetual succession, by the name and style
of The Masonic Mutual Beneficial Association of Norfolk,
Virginia, and by that name are hereby made capable, in law
and equity, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded,
contract and be contracted with, to make, have and use a com-
mon seal, and to alter or renew the same at pleasure, and shall
have the right to take and hold by purchase, gift or otherwise,
real and personal estate not exceeding twenty thousand dollars
in value, or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry out
the object of this association, and dispose of and convey the
same at pleasure.

§2. The object of said association, being entirely benevo-
lent, shall be to establish in the city of Norfolk, state of Vir-
ginia, a Masonic mutual beneficial association, to the extent of
providiny for the relief of widows, orphans or beneficiaries of
deceased members of said association by voluntary contribu-
tions.

§ 3. Any one who has attained to the’degree of master mason,
and is at the time affiliated with a regularly constituted lodge,
and whose application may be approved in accordince with the
by-laws of said association, may become a member of this as-
sociation,

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