CHAP. 41.—An ACT to incorporate the Progressive endowment
guild of America.

Approved January 10, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That Joseph A. White, W. L. Waring, junior, J. Y. Down-
man, J. Taylor Ellyson, S. Galeski, William Ryan, and
George Bryan, of the city of Richmond, and their
associates, successors, and assigns be, and are hereby,
constituted a body corporate and politic by the name of
the Progressive endowment guild of America, and by that
name shall be known in law, and shall have perpetual
succession and shall have power to sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded in all courts, and may make and have a
common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and shall
have, exercise, and enjoy all the rights, powers, and priv-
ileges pertaining to corporate bodies and necessary for the
purposes hereinafter set forth; and may make a constitu-
tion, by-laws, rules and regulations consistent with the
existing laws of the state for the government of all under

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its authority, for the management of its estates and prop-
erties, and for the due and orderly conduct of its affairs;
the general objects of said guild being:

First. To unite fraternally all white persons of sound
bodily health and good moral character, who are socially
acceptable, and between the ages of eighteen and sixty-
five years.

Second. To give all material aid in its power to its
members and those dependent on them.

Third. To establish a fund for the relief of sick and dis-
tressed members. |

Fourth. To establish a benefit fund, from which the
members of said guild who shall have complied with all
its rules and regulations may receive at the end of a cer-
tain period a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, or
from which, on the satisfactory evidence of the death of a
member who shall have so complied with such rules and
regulations, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars
shall be paid to the family of such member as he may
direct, or, in case of his failure to direct, to his legal rep-
resentatives.

2. The said guild may acquire and own real estate not
to exceed five acres, and its principal office shall be in the
city of Richmond.

3. All taxes and debts due the state shall be paid in
money and not in coupons.

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