CHAP. 125.—An ACT to incorporate Shockoe Hill Division, No. 54,
Sons of Temperance, of the city of Richmond.

a Approved April 2, 1879,
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That W. T. Allen,
W. Leigh Burton, M. B. Poiteaux, E. D. Starke, G. W. Mayo,
W. E. Chockley, William Hancock, G. H. Valentine, T. P.
Mayo, and George W. Williams, and their associates and suc-
cessors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and cor-
porate, under the name ang@@ptyle of Shockoe Hill Division,

Number Fifty-four, Sons of Temperance, of the city of Rich--
mond; and as such shall have power to sue and be sued, plead -

and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, 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 or of the United States applicable to
such corporations.

2. The objects of this association shall be the promotion of |

the interests of the order known as the sons of temperance, and
the uniting of the members of said Shockoe hill division, num-
ber fifty-four, in the establishment of a temperance relief fund,
from which, on satisfactory evidence of the death of a member
of the association who has complied with its lawful require-
ments, a sum of money not exceeding two thousand dollars
shall be paid to his or her family, or as he or she may have
directed.

3. The said association may have a corporate seal for the
making and delivering of all legal acts and proceedings, and
the same may break, alter or renew at pleasure.

4, The principal office and mecting-room of said association |
shall be located in the city of Richmond, and any five of said

corporators, their associates and successors, shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of business.
5. The said association may enacs a constitution and by-laws

for its government, and may alter or amend the same at plea-'

sure; and may elect a board of directors, trustees, or such
other officers as it may deem necessary and proper for the car-
rying on of its business. In alk meetings of the association
all the members, whether corporators or others, shall have equal
voice and vote.

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

the association.
7. This act shall be in force from its passage.