Chap. 390.—An ACT to incorporate the Society for the Relief of the
Preachers of the Virginian Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, and their Families, their Widows and Orphans.

Approved March 12, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
F. M. Edwards, Sussex county, Virginia; J. C. Watson,
Mathews county, Virginia; R. N. Sledd. Norfolk, Virginia ;
G. M. Bain, Portsmouth, Virginia; J. Wi. Dawson, Nortolk,
Virginia; C. V. Wintree, Lynchburg, Virginia; H. T. Lassiter,
Murtreesborough, North Carolina; J. E. Brodwater, Accomac
county, Virginia; and W. T. MeMullen, Hertford, North Caro-
lina, together with such persons as may be hereafter asso-
ciated with them and their successors, be and they are hereby
constituted a body politic and corporate, under the name and
style of The Society for the Reliet’ of the Preachers of the
Virginia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and
their Families, their Widows and Orphans, and by that name
may hold property, real and personal, to an amount not ex-
ceeding two hundred thousand dollars, and may sue and be
sucd, and have a common seal.
2. That the said corporation shall have power to reccive
subscriptions in money, or other things, and may receive
donations by will or otherwise, for the purpose of said cor-
poration, and invest or otherwise dispose of and use the same
for the promotion of the objects of said corporation.

3. The annual meeting of said corporation shall be held in
the city of Norfolk, in the state of Virginia, at such time as
the directors of said corporation shall determine; but called
meetings of said directors may be held at such other places,
in or out of the state of Virginia, as may be desired.

4. Until otherwise ordered by the corporation, the officers
shall be a president, secretary. and treasurer, and the office of
secretary and treasurer may be combined in one person, who

may be a dircctor, or some other person, as the directors may
select.

5. The said corporation shall have power to purchase en-
dowments, annuities, and make insurance on lives, for the
benefit of said corporation, or any of its beneficiaries.

6. The said corporation shall have power to make such
by-laws, and rules and regulations for its government, and
the management and disposition of its funds, as from time to
time may “be deemed proper.

7. The said corporation shall have not less than five, nor
more than nine directors, from whom the president shall
annually be chosen by the directors, which directors shall
hold until their successors are appointed and enter on the
duties of their office.

8. The said directors shall annually be chosen by the Vir-
ginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
and a certificate of whose appointment shail be furnished
them, and which sball be entered on the records of said cor-
poration.

9. The said corporation shall keep a record of their pro-
ceedings, and all moneys received, and how disposed of, which
shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the said con-
ference.

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

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