CHAP. 392.—An ACT to incorporate the Richmond society for
the eprovention of cruelty to animals.

Approved February 25, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That Robert Stiles, William B. Palmer, James Lyons, John
L. Williams, Hill Montague, Thomas N. Carter, J. R. V.
Daniel, B. Rand. Wellford, D. C. Richardson, W. W. Lan-
drum, George N. Woodbridge, W. J. Leake, all of the city
of Richmond, in the state of Virginia, and such other per-
sons as are now or may hereafter be associated with them,
and their successors, be, and they are hereby, constituted
a body corporate under the name and style of the Rich-
mond society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and
by that name shall have perpetual succession and a com-
mon seal.

2. The object of the said corporation shall be the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals.

3. The said corporation may sue or be sued, contract and
be contracted with; may acquire by purchase, gift, devise,
or bequest, property, real or personal, and may lease, man-
age, control, exchange, mortgage, sell, convey, or dispose
of said property. The value of real property to be held
by said corporation at any one time shall not exceed the
sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and the amount of
personal property shall not exceed ten thousand dollars.

4. The officers of the said corporation shall consist of a
president, five vice-presidents, one secretary, one treasurer,
who, together with the counsel of said corporation, shall
be ex-officio members of the executive committee, which
committee shall consist of ten members in addition to the
ex-officio members aforesaid.

5. The foregoing officers shal] be chosen from among
the members of the society in such manner as its by-laws
may prescribe. °

6. A library may be created for the use of the society.

7. The said society, for fixing the terms of admission of
its members, for the government of the same, for the elec-
tion, changing, and altering the officers above named, and
for the general regulation and management of its affairs,
shall have power to form a code of by-laws not inconsist-
ent with the laws of the state of Virginia or of the United
States, which code, when formed and adopted at a regular
meeting, shall, until modified or rescinded, be equally
binding as this act upon the society, its officers, and mem-
bers.

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