Chap. 406.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act in-
corporating Marshall Lodge, No. 39, of Free and Accepted Masons,
approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

Approved March 3, 1886.

. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an a entitled an act incorporating Marshall Lodge, number
thirty-nine, of Free and Accepted Masons, approved January
fourteen, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, be amended, so
as to read as follows:

§1. That Robert T. Craighill, Leslie C. Talbot, J. I. Van
Ness, and Samuel B. Rucker, and others who are now or may
hereafter become members of Marshall Lodge number thirty-
nine, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the fact of such mem-
bership to be in all cases determined by the lodge itself and
their successors, be and they are hereby constituted a body
politic and corporate, by the name of Marshall Lodge, number
thirty-nine, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. It shall have,
in addition to the powers now granted by law to corporations
generally, power to take and hold all and singular the rights
and franchises, the estate, real and personal, now held and
owned by said Marshall Lodge, number thirty-nine, may acquire
by gift or purchase, and hold other estate, so that the land,
however obtained, shall not at any one time exceed in value the
sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; may borrow
money or other things, and to secure the payment of the same
may execute mortgages, deeds of trust, or other instruments of
the like kind, as it may deem most conducive to its advantage,
and to carrying out the purposes hereinafter mentioned,

$2. That the general object of the said lodge shall be the
practice and exercise of charity and other virtues commonly
held and set forth in the tenets of ancient free and accepted
masons; and the said lodge is hereby fully authorized and em-
powered to do any and all things necessary and proper to be
done in furtherance of that object; and among such things, it
shall have the power to establish and conduct an institution in
the nature of a retreat or infirmary; to prescribe how and in
what way ‘said institution shall be managed and governed, and
to determine who may be admitted to the benefits of the same,
and the terms and conditions thereof.

§ 3. That the right is reserved to the general assembly at any
time to amend and alter, or repeal in whole or in part, this act.

§ 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are
hereby repealed.

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