An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1879es |
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Law Number | 110 |
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CHAP. 110.—An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Jockey Club.
Approved April 2, 1879.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Thomas W. Doswell, George D. Wise, John F. Lewis, A. G.
Babcock, O. J. Schoolcraft, J. L. Schoolcraft, F. Stearns, Junior,
B. W. Hoxsey, G. K. Macon, Chastain White, and J. D. Snel-
ling, and such others as may hereafter be associated with them,
be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corpo-
rate, with succession, under the name and style of The Virginia
Jockey Club, with power to them and their successors to adopt
a common seal, and the same to alter and change, and by the
corporate name above mentioned to sue and be sued, implead
and be impleaded, and to take and hold property, real, personal
and mixed, and the same to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose
of, and in general to do, perform and suffer, with reference to
the hereinafter mentioned purpose of their incorporation, all
acts and things which may lawfully be done, performed and.
suffered by a natural person: provided the real estate held by
the said corporation shall not exceed in quantity five hundred
acres.
2. This corporation, or a majority of the members of the
same, shall have power to make a system of rules and regula-
tions, under the denomination of a constiition and by-laws or
otherwise, not inconsistent with the laws of this state, for the
management of the affairs of the said corporation, and the
same to alter and amend, abrogate and annul, whenever they
may think proper.
3. The object of the said corporation shall be the improve-
ment of the breed of horses; and mm carrying out the said
object, the said corporation may hold one or more meetings in
each year, at such place as it may select, for the exhibition and
trial of such animals as it may deem proper, and may offer and
give such premiums as it may determine on, for superlorty in
the object sought for.
4. For the purpose of preserving and protecting property, the
police commissioners of the city of Richmond, be and they are
hereby authorized, upon the request of the president of the said
corporation, to detail such force as they may deem sufficient for
the preservation of order during any exhibition of the said cor-
poration, which detailed force shall have the power that the
police of the city have as conservators of the peace.
&. This act shall be m force from its passage.