CHAP. 255.—An ACT to incorporate the Metompkin fish and
game associatian.

Approved February 17, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That Page McCarthy, Holmes Conrad, Robert W. Hunter,
John F. Bransford, George Ben. Johnston, and such other
persons as may hereafter be associated with them, are
hereby constituted a body corporate under the name and
style of the Metompkin fish and game association.

2. The said association may contract and be contracted
with, sue and be sued, and may generally do all such acts
as may be necessary for the purpose for which it is organ-
ized; and shall have all the rights and be subject to all
provisions of the law for the conduct of joint stock com-
panies, so far as they are not inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act.

3. The said association is authorized to do all lawful
acts for the promotion of the increase of game and fish in
this commonwealth and in the waters thereof, and for the
conviction of persons violating the laws relating to the
protection of game and fish.

4. The association may acquire and hold so much real
estate as may be necessary and desirable for its purposes,
not toexceed ten thousand acres, in the counties.of King
George and Westmoreland, and may also acquire and exer-
cise all such rights and privileges as to hunting and fish-
ing on the lands and in the waters within said counties as
may be desired for its purposes.

5. The association may, as it sees proper, sell, lease,
grant, or convey any or all of the lands, rights or privi-
leges that may be acquired by it, in such manner and upon
such terms as a majority of its stockholders may agree
upon. The capital stock of said association shall not be
lesg than fifteen hundred dollars nor more than one hun-
dred and fifty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares
of the value of one thousand dollars each.

7. The officers of the association shall be a president, &
secretary (who shall also be treasurer), and five directors,
to be elected annually by and from the stockholders of
the said association.

8. The said association, which shall not consist of more
than fifty members at any one time, may make such. by-
laws for the government of the same as may be consistent
with the laws of the state of Virginia and the object of
the said association ; and for the more effectively carrying
out the purposes of the said association, it may provide rules
regulating the admission of new members into the agso-
ciation, and prescribing the terms upon which the stock
therein owned by any member shall be transferred, and
no member shall hold less than three shares of the stock:
provided, that the action of this company shall be con-
fined exclusively to the two counties herein named.

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

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