Chap. 552.—An ACT to incorporate the Womans Temperance, Coffee
and Lunch House and Reading-Room Association of Harrisonburg.

Approved March 19, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Juliet Lyle Strayer, Diana 8. Conrad, Sallie S. Kisling,
Catherine Devier, Fannie Arbogast, Virginia M. Sterling,
Lucy B. Heneberger, Annie D. Gray, Emma W. Ward,
Isabella B. Lewis, and their associates and successors, be
and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate,
with perpetual succession, by the name of the Womans
Temperance, Coffee and Lunch House and Reading-Room
Association of Harrisonburg, and by that name, may sue and
be sued, contract and be contracted with, make and use a
common seal, and shall have the right to take and hold, by
gift, purchase or otherwise, real and personal estate, the real
estate not to exceed one-half acre, and to be located in the
town of Harrisonburg. Virginia, the value not to exceed ten
thousand dollars; and said association shall have full power
to use, manage, and enjoy such real and personal estate, and
may sell and convey the same at pleasure, for the purposes
of the association.

2. The object of this association shall be to furnish, as
nearly as may be, at the cost of obtaining and serving the
same, comforting and wholesome fod, coffee, tea, and other
non-intoxicating drinks, to the residents, and especially to
the young men and boys of the town of Harrisonburg and
vicinity; and to furnish to them a comfortable and attractive
place of resort, where they may engage in reading approved
moral and religious literature, and the current news of the
day, and in playing games of skill, under the restricting in-
fluence of and in the presence of christian women, and to
use all the lawful means and influences to save the young
people of Harrisonburg, from the temptations of the streets.

3. And the said association being purely charitable and
benevolent, shall be exempted from the payment of all licen-
ses and property tax, state and municipal.

4. The members of the association shall elect from their
own members annually, a president, first vice-president, sec-
ond vice-president, secretary and treasurer, and sball deter-
mine in what manner all other officers and agents necessary
to conduct the affairs of the association, shall be elected or
appointed, and how vacancies may be filled, and may pre-
scribe and fix the duties and compensation of each officer and
agent, and shall adopt such by-laws and regulations as they
may deem necessary for the government of said association,
and management of the affairs of the same, not in conflict
with the laws of this state.

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