CHAP. 432.—An ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake agricultural
and industrial eociety.

Approved March 3, 1890.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
John A. Palmer, William C. Currell, J. B. Cralle, L. M.
Flippo, 8. G. Eubank, E. Brown, Warner Ball, William
Chitwood, William Cox, R. M. Saunders, John E. Waters,
R. W. Chilton, J. H. Tapscott, T. W. Bonner, W. F. Davis,
F. C. Snow, A. C. Harding, Doctor William M. Kirk, T. J.
Haydon, Eubank and brother, and of the
voluntary association known as the Chesapeake agricul-
tural society, and all other persons who may become asso-
ciated with them under the provisions of this act, be, and
they are hereby, constituted a body politic and corporate
by the name and style of the Chesapeake agricultural and

industrial society, and as such shall have perpetual suc-
cession and a common seal, and may sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with,
and make all proper and needful by-laws, ordinances and
regulations not inconsistent with the laws of the United
States or of this commonweaith.

2. The purposes and object of the society shall be to estab-
lish and conduct fairs and other exhibitions of agricultural
and other products as a means of developing the resources of
the commonwealth and of promoting and advancing all
industrial pursuits. The office of the society shall be, and
its stockholders’ meetings, fairs, and exhibitions, held at
Kilmarnock, and at such other places as may -be deemed
expedient.

3. The said society shall be entitled to purchase, lease,
or rent and hold real and personal property in, value not
to exceed one hundred thousand dollars, and shall have
the right to sell, mortgage, or lease any part or all of said
property.

4. The capital stock of the society shall be divided into
shares of twenty dollars each, which shall be paid as re-
quired by the by-laws; and the personal liability of every
and any stockholder, for the debts of the society, shall be
limited to the amount unpaid on the shares of stock sub-
scribed for by such stockhoider. All certificates of stock
shall be signed by the president and countersigned by the
treasurer and secretary of the society.

5. The officers and directors shall be elected and the
annual meetings held at such time as may be provided by
the constitution and by-laws of the society.

6. The board of directors, including the president, sec-
retary and treasurer, shall have the management and con-
trol of the property, affairs, business and concerns of the
society.

7. Such constitution as shall be adopted by a two-thirds
vote of the stockholders of the society, shall be held and
deemed to be the constitution of said society, and shall
not be altered or amended except as may be therein pro-
vided.

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