Chap. 411.—An ACT to incorporate District Lodge, No.'15, Grand
United Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Virginia.

Approved March 3, 1886.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Wm. M. T. Forrester, Christopher B. Stevens, S. J. Gilpin,
Zebedee Wallace, and Samuel Davis, the present trustees, offi-
cers and members of district lodge, number fifteen, of the
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of the state of Virginia,
and their successors, be and they are declared to be a commu-
nitv, corporation, and a body politic, by the name and style
and title aforesaid, and by that name they and their successors
shall and may at all times hereafter be capable in law to have,
receive and retain, to them and their successors, property, real
and personal, also devises or bequests of any person or per-
sons, bodies corporate or politic, capable of making the same;
and the same, at their pleasure, to transfer or dispose of in such
manner as they think proper: provided, always, that the said
corporation or body politic shall not at any time hold or pos-
sess property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding in annual
value the sum. of twenty thousand dollars.

2. The said corporation and their successors, by the name
and style and title aforesaid, shall be forever thereafter capable
in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and
be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all or any courts
of justice, and before all and any judge, officer or person what-
soever, in all and singular actions, matters, or demands what-
soever. }

3. It shall and may be lawful for the said corporation to have
a common seal for their use, and the same at their will and
pleasure to change, alter and make anew, from time to time, as
they may think best, and shall in general have and exercise
such rights, privileges and immunities, as by law are incident
or necessary to incorporations, and what may be necessary to
the corporation herein constituted.

4. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorize
the said corporation to issue any note, token, scrip, device, or
other evidence of debt, to be used as currency.

5. The general assembly of Virginia may at any time amend,
modify or repeal this charter.

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