Chap. 365.—An ACT to incorporate the Farmers and Miners fraternal
society. |

Approved May 21, 1887.

Whereas certain citizens of the United States of America
have associated themselves together to form the Farmers and
Miners fraternal society with corporate powers to foster
benevolent aid to its members from assessments made upon
subordinate councils, lodges, or the members thereof,

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
W. G. Furse, B. W. Calhoun, W. R. Thigpen, J. 8B. Roberts,
O. H. Rogers, William Rawlings, and J. W. Anderson, and
their associates, successors, and assigns, be and are hereby
created a body politic and corporate under the name of the
Farmers and Miners fraternal society.

2. That said corporation, under its corporate name, shall
have succession of officers and members, and all the powers,
privileges, and franchises incident to a corporation, and also
authority to establish a supreme or grand and subordinate
lodges, to create such offices and the duties thereof as they
may see fit, and to make such laws, rules, and regulations
necessary and proper for the government of said corporation
not in conflict with the laws of this State or of the United
States.

3. That said corporation shall have authority to have and
use a common seal and the same to alter and renew at will,
and by the name and title aforesaid, to sue and be sued, to
plead and by impleaded in any court.

4. That said corporation shall have the right and power
to acquire, purchase, take, and hold in its corporate name,
real and personal property, and the same to demise, grant,
sell, assign, exchange, and convey in fee simple or otherwise
not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars in value.

5. That said corporation shall have the power under such
rules and regulations as they may hereafter from time to
time adopt, create, and maintain a relief fund, and dispense
and pay out the same for the relief of sick and distressed
emer’ or of the families of deceased members of said cor-
poration or of said supreme, grand, and subordinate lodges.

6. This act shall be deemed and taken as a public act and
shall have perpetual succession. :

7. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this
act be and the same are hereby repealed. ,