Chap. 395.—An ACT to incorporate the Danville tobacco association.

Approved March 3, 1888.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That :
for the purpose of encouraging, promoting, and regulating
the sales of leaf tobacco and trade therein in the town of
Danville, Virginia, s0 far as the same may be done under and
in accordance with the laws of this commonwealth, T. J.
Talbott, P. W. Ferrell, I. S. Bendall, M. P. Jordan, W. W.
Worsham, F. X. Burton, T. C. Skinner, E. F. Acree, J. M.
Neal, G. W. Linthicum, J. W. Hunter, George O. Wilson, O.
R. Hall, J. W. Skinner, John G. Friend, P. C. Venable, George
8. Hughes, E. G. Moseley, R. M. Abbott, George A. Lea, and
such other persons as they may associate with them, are
hereby chartered and incorporated as a body corporate and
politic, under the corporate name of the Danville tobacco
association.

2. Said association shall be authorized and empowered to
make all necessary rules and by-laws as a majority of its
members may deem proper for the promotion of its objects
and the purposes of its incorporation, and such rules, by-laws,
and regulations, to alter, amend, or repeal, whenever so
determined by a majority vote of any duly constituted meet-
ing of said association.

3. Said association shall have power to elect all such offi-
cers as may be required for its organization and successful
operation, and to enforce the proper observance of all its
rules, regulations, and by-laws, by such fines and penalties as
the majority of members present at any called meeting may
determine to impose, and by expulsion of a member or mem-
bers, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at such
called meeting; but the mode and manner of assembling any
such called meeting, and also the number of members neces-
sary to constitute the same, shall be fixed by the by-laws of
said association, and its regular meetings shall be held at
such times as said association shall determine.

4. All fines and penalties imposed by said association upon
its members, may be collected by warrant in the name of its
treasurer, before any justice of the peace in the towns of
Danville or North Danville, and in case any offending or
delinquent member shall remove from said towns, or shall
not reside therein, then before any justice of the peace within
whose civil jurisdiction he may reside, and said association
shall moreover be authorized to punish by expulsion, any
member who may neglect or refuse to pay any fines imposed
on him for more than five days after the same shall have
been imposed, but no fine or penalty imposed by said asso-
ciation shall exceed fifty dollars for any one offence.

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