Chap. 84.—An ACT to incorporate the Ladies’ Benevolent Society of
Danville, Va. °

Approved November 22, 1884.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Sally A. Risen, Jane E. Sutherlin, Alice W. Jordon, Fanny
C. Guerrant, Lucy E. Bouldin, Agnes G. Venable, Lizzie W.
Holland, Sallie H. Pace, Mary P. Talbott, Nannie P. Estes,
Maria R. Grasty, Alice D. Keen, Mary F. Ferrell, Lucy G.
New, Ellen P. Brydon, Susan T. Hickson, Rebecca J. Hen-
derson, Minnie F. .Vass, Kate Ley, Mary H. Ruffin, Mary D.
Harrison, Sallie C. Green, Kate M. Moore, Nannie D. Green,
Lizzie D. Jones, Alice S. Burton, Bettie R. Jones, Laura A.
Patrick, Eleanor R. Hancock, Mary Wheeler, Bettie M. Mar-
tin, Mary Pemberton, Adela C. Green, and Nellie R. Green,
with such other persons as are now or may be hereafter
associated with them, and their successors, be and they are
hereby incorporated under the corporate name of The Ladies’
Benevolent Society of Danville, Virginia, with power to
establish, maintain, and conduct a hospitable for the sick, in
the town of Danville, Virginia, to be known as The Danville
Home for the Sick.

2. Said society shall have power to take by purchase,
devise, gift or otherwise, real and personal property, not
exceeding one hundred thousand dollars in value, and the
same to hold, transfer, grant and convey, as the purposes of
said home may require; but all such property, real or per-
sonal, belonging, received or acquired by said society, and all
proceeds of any sale thereof shall be devoted exclusively to
the purposes of said home.

3. The estate, property, business, and affairs of said society,
shall be managed and controlled in such manner as the by-
laws, rules, and regulations adopted by a majority of the
members of said society, present at any meeting wherein
there may be a quorum, may provide—the said rules, by-laws,
and regulations not being contrary to the laws and constitu-
tion of the United States, or of this state.

4. The said society may delegate all powers conferred by
this act to a board of managers, or such other agents as may
be selected at any duly organized meeting; and tor the trans-
action of business and decision of all questions, ten members
of said society shall constitute a quorum.

5. Admissions to said home shall be subject to the rules
and regulations of said society, in force, and the property, real
and personal of said society, shall be exempt from taxation,
both state and municipal, but said society shall have authority
to rent rooms and apartments to sick applicants able to pay
for them, on such terms as said society or its board of mana-
gers, may, from time to time, prescribe.

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