Chap. 30.—An ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the Baptist Ministers’
Relief Fund of Virginia. )

Approved January 16, 1&86.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Thomas J. Starke, Thomas J. Evans, William M. Turpin, Joseph
F. Cottrell, Charles L. Cocke, C. T. Sutherlin, William
Vaughan, T. H. Ellett, and James G. Field, and such other per-
sons as may hereafter be associated with them, and the sur-
vivors of them, be and the same are hereby constituted a body
corporate by the name and style of ‘‘The Trustees of the Bap-
tist Ministers’ Relief Fund of Virginia,” for the purpose of cre-
ating and properly administering a fund, as a means of support
or relief for all such needy Baptist ministers in Virginia as
now are, or may, by reason of age or infirmity, become disquali-
fied for active labors, and also for the support or relief of the
needy widows and minor children of Baptist ministers of Vir-

inia.
® 2. The said corporation shall have power to make and adopt
by-laws, rules and regulations for the admission and expulsion
of members and their government, the election of its officers
and to define their duties, and for the safe keeping and protec-
tion of its property and funds; and from time to time to alter
or repeal such by-laws, rules and regulations.

3. The said corporation may sue or be sued; may acquire by
purchase or gift, devise or bequest, property, real or personal;
and may manage, control, sell, convey, or cispose of the said
property. The amount of real property to be held by the said
corporation, at any one time, shalt not exceed in value fifty
thousand dollars, and the amount of personal property to be
held by the said corporation at any one time shall not exceed
one hundred thousand dollars in value.

4. This act shall be in force from its passage, and shall be
subject to the revocation, alteration, or amendment of the gen-
eral assembly of Virginia. :