Chap. 163.—An ACT to incorporate American lodge No. 1789, Grand
United Order of Odd-Fellows.

Approved May 6, 1887.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
Thomas W. Walker, Allen J. Harris, Edward Lomax, J. An-
drew Bowles, John A. Walker, B. J. Franklin, Aaron Dodson,
Henry Walker, Samuel Bolling, David J. Chavers, John H.
Jones, the present officers and trustecs of American lodge,
number seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, Grand United
Order of Odd-Fellows of Richmond, Virginia, and their sue-
cessors, as officers, and the members of said, lodge, be and
they are hereby declared to be a corporation and body _ poli-
tic, by the name, style, and title of American lodge, number
seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, Grand United Order of
Odd-Fellows, and shall be capable in law to have, receive, and
retain to them end their successors, property, real and per-
sonal; also devises or bequests of any persons, bodies corpo-
rate or politic, capable of making the same, and the same at
their pleasure to transfer or dispose of In such manner as
they may think proper: provided always, that the said cor-
poration or body politic shall not at any time hold or possess
property, real, personal, or mixed, exceeding in value the
sum of twenty thousand dollars.

2. The said corporation and their successors by the name
and style aforesaid, shall be capable in law to sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be detended, in any
of the courts of the State.
3. It shall and may be lawful for the 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 think best, and shall in general have and exercise
such rights, privileges, and immunitics 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 author-
ize the said corporation to issue any note, token, script,
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.