Chap. 50.—An ACT to amend the act approved April second, eighteer
hundred and seventy-nine, entitled an act tc incorporate the Galleg.
Mills Manufacturing Company.

Approved February 3, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Tha
the act approved April second, eighteen hundred and seventy
nine, entitled an act to incorporate the Gallego Mills Man
ufacturing Company, be and the same is hereby amende:
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia
That the charter heretofore granted, to-wit: on the tent!
day of March, eightcen hundred and sixty-eight, by the cir
cuit court of the city of Richmond, incorporating the Gal
lego mills manufacturing company, is hereby so altered ans
amended as to allow the capital stock of said company to b
not less than two hundred thousand dollars, and not mor

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than one million dollars, and the same to be divided into
shares of fifty dollars each.

$2. The said company, to the extent of its present capital
of three hundred and cighty-seven thousand eight hundred
dollars, may issue in lieu of its present outstanding cer-
tifitates of stock, to the holders thereof, or those enti-
tle] thereto, two shares of stock of fifty dollars each for
each original share of one hundred dollars represented by
such outstanding certificates. And where such issue has
already been made, the same is hereby confirmed and madt
valid; and where the same has been partially made by the
issue to the holders of any share of one hundred dollars of
only one share of fifty dollars in lien thereof, it iy hereby
confirmed and made valid, as far as already made, and so
far as not fully made may be completed by the issue of
an additional share of fifty dollars to the bolder of each
share of fifty dollars, where only one such share has been
issued in lieu of an original share of one hundred dollars.

$3. The charter of said company, as hereby amended,
may, notwithstanding this act, or the act hereby amended
and re-enacted, be at any time further altered and amended
by the circuit court of Richmond city, in accordance with
the provisions of law, as fully as if the alteration and amend-
ment of said charter hereby made, had been made by said
circuit court, and no legislation in reference to said company
or said charter had at any time been had by the general
assembly.

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

Chap. 50.—An ACT to incorporate the Board of Foreign Missions of
the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention of the United States of
America.

Approved April 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
A. Binga, junior, W. W.Colley, Henry Wlliams, junior, William
Troy, i. . Dawson, R. Spiller, J. W. Patterson, R. F. Mor-
ris, John Jones, J. E. Jones, J. E. Farrar, J. H. Holmes, J. B.
Smith, L. A. Black, W. H. Dickerson, and J. A. Taylor, of
the state of Virginia; W. H. McAlpin and J. Q. A. Wilhite,
of the state of Alabama; C. Johnson, of the state of North
Carolina; F. Brown, of the state of South of Carolina; W.
H. Tillman, of the state of Georgia; J. A. Stewart and J. M.
Armistead, of the state of Tennessee; R. Ramsey, of the
state of Mississippi; G. W. Walker, of the state of Louisiana;
R. H. Boyd, of the state of Texas; R. D. Dunbar, of the
state of Florida; and E. C. Morris, of the state of Arkansas,
and all others who now are, or may hereafter become asso-
ciated with them, be and they are hereby constituted a body
politic and corporate, by the name and styte of the Board of

oreign Missions of the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention
of the United States of America, and by that name may sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have perpetual succes-
sion and a common seal, and in all respects shall be invested
with the rights and privileges conferred, and subject to the
restrictions and regulations prescribed for corporations by
the general law, so far as the same are applicable to this cor-
poration and not inconsistent with this act.

2. The said corporation may take by purchase, gift, devise,
or bequest, and to hold real and personal estate, and lease,
rent, sell or otherwise dispose of the same in any such man-
ner a8 may seem most advantageous: provided it shall not
hold real estate exceeding ten acres of Jand in any county or
corporation of this commonwealth. ,

3. The object of the said board is to diffuse the gospel of
Jesus Christ in Africa and elsewhere abroad, as God may
direct.

4, The said board shall have power to make and adopt
rules and regulations for its government, the election of its
officers and to define their duties.

5. The officers of the board shall be a president and vice-
president, corresponding secretary, recording secretary, sta-
tistical secretary, treasurer, and auditor.

6. The principal office of the board shall be in the city of
Richmond and state of Virginia.

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

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Chap. 50.—An ACT to amend the act approved April second, eighteer
hundred and seventy-nine, entitled an act tc incorporate the Galleg.
Mills Manufacturing Company.

Approved February 3, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, Tha
the act approved April second, eighteen hundred and seventy
nine, entitled an act to incorporate the Gallego Mills Man
ufacturing Company, be and the same is hereby amende:
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia
That the charter heretofore granted, to-wit: on the tent!
day of March, eightcen hundred and sixty-eight, by the cir
cuit court of the city of Richmond, incorporating the Gal
lego mills manufacturing company, is hereby so altered ans
amended as to allow the capital stock of said company to b
not less than two hundred thousand dollars, and not mor

Google
than one million dollars, and the same to be divided into
shares of fifty dollars each.

$2. The said company, to the extent of its present capital
of three hundred and cighty-seven thousand eight hundred
dollars, may issue in lieu of its present outstanding cer-
tifitates of stock, to the holders thereof, or those enti-
tle] thereto, two shares of stock of fifty dollars each for
each original share of one hundred dollars represented by
such outstanding certificates. And where such issue has
already been made, the same is hereby confirmed and madt
valid; and where the same has been partially made by the
issue to the holders of any share of one hundred dollars of
only one share of fifty dollars in lien thereof, it iy hereby
confirmed and made valid, as far as already made, and so
far as not fully made may be completed by the issue of
an additional share of fifty dollars to the bolder of each
share of fifty dollars, where only one such share has been
issued in lieu of an original share of one hundred dollars.

$3. The charter of said company, as hereby amended,
may, notwithstanding this act, or the act hereby amended
and re-enacted, be at any time further altered and amended
by the circuit court of Richmond city, in accordance with
the provisions of law, as fully as if the alteration and amend-
ment of said charter hereby made, had been made by said
circuit court, and no legislation in reference to said company
or said charter had at any time been had by the general
assembly.

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

Chap. 50.—An ACT to incorporate the Board of Foreign Missions of
the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention of the United States of
America.

Approved April 14, 1882.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
A. Binga, junior, W. W.Colley, Henry Wlliams, junior, William
Troy, i. . Dawson, R. Spiller, J. W. Patterson, R. F. Mor-
ris, John Jones, J. E. Jones, J. E. Farrar, J. H. Holmes, J. B.
Smith, L. A. Black, W. H. Dickerson, and J. A. Taylor, of
the state of Virginia; W. H. McAlpin and J. Q. A. Wilhite,
of the state of Alabama; C. Johnson, of the state of North
Carolina; F. Brown, of the state of South of Carolina; W.
H. Tillman, of the state of Georgia; J. A. Stewart and J. M.
Armistead, of the state of Tennessee; R. Ramsey, of the
state of Mississippi; G. W. Walker, of the state of Louisiana;
R. H. Boyd, of the state of Texas; R. D. Dunbar, of the
state of Florida; and E. C. Morris, of the state of Arkansas,
and all others who now are, or may hereafter become asso-
ciated with them, be and they are hereby constituted a body
politic and corporate, by the name and styte of the Board of

oreign Missions of the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention
of the United States of America, and by that name may sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have perpetual succes-
sion and a common seal, and in all respects shall be invested
with the rights and privileges conferred, and subject to the
restrictions and regulations prescribed for corporations by
the general law, so far as the same are applicable to this cor-
poration and not inconsistent with this act.

2. The said corporation may take by purchase, gift, devise,
or bequest, and to hold real and personal estate, and lease,
rent, sell or otherwise dispose of the same in any such man-
ner a8 may seem most advantageous: provided it shall not
hold real estate exceeding ten acres of Jand in any county or
corporation of this commonwealth. ,

3. The object of the said board is to diffuse the gospel of
Jesus Christ in Africa and elsewhere abroad, as God may
direct.

4, The said board shall have power to make and adopt
rules and regulations for its government, the election of its
officers and to define their duties.

5. The officers of the board shall be a president and vice-
president, corresponding secretary, recording secretary, sta-
tistical secretary, treasurer, and auditor.

6. The principal office of the board shall be in the city of
Richmond and state of Virginia.

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

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