CHAP. 59.—An ACT to incorporate the Good Templar Relief Associa-
tion of Loudoun county.

Approved February 1, 1879.

1. Be it enacted by the gencral assembly of Virginia, That
Thomas E. Taylor, Joseph H. Jewett, Daniel J. Hoge, Jobn
Hough, John W. Thomas, Chester C. Graves, J. B. MeCabe, E.
L. Bennett, J.S. Stone, Charles W. Iammerly, Lewis Northup,
C. B. Hanford, George R. Head, J. P. Lowell, Samuel Wyne-
coop, and Phineas Janney, their associates and sueces ors, be
and are hereby incorporated and made a body politic under the
name and title of The Good Templars’ Relief Association of
Loudoun county, and as such shall have power to sue and be
sued, contract and be contracted with, plead and be impleaded,
purchase, lease, hold, sell and convey, in its corporate capacity,
property, real, personal and mixed, and do all and any other
acts for the promotion of its objects, not inconsistent with the
constitution and laws of this state and of the United States,
applicable to such corporations.
2. The objects of this association shall be, in general, the
promotion of the interests of the order known as the indepen-
dent order of Good Templars, and, in particular, the uniting of
all the members of said order in the county of Loudoun, inthe
establishment of a Good Templars’ relief fund, from which, on
the satisfactory evidence of the death of a member of the asso-
ciation who has complied with its lawful requirements, a sum
of money not exceeding two thousand dollars shall be paid to
his or her family, or as he or she have directed.

38. The said association shall have a corporate seal for the
making and delivering of all legal acts and proceedings, the
same to break and alter at pleasure.

4, The principal office of the said association shall be located
at Lincoln, Loudoun county, Virginia, and any nine in number
of the said eorporators, their associates and suecessors, shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

». The said association may enact a constitution and by-
laws for its government, and may alter or amend the same at
pleasure ; and may elect a board of directors, trustees and such
other officers as if may deem hecessary and proper for the car-
rying on of its Jawful business. [nh all meetings of the asse-
ciation, all the members, whether corporators or other, shall
have equal voice and vote.

6. The private property of the corporators, officers and mem-
bers of the said association shall not be lable for the debts of
the association.

7. This act shall be im force from its passage.