Chap. 47.—An ACT to amend an act incorporating the Ladies’
memorial association of Fredericksburg, approved April 4, 1874.

Approved January 11, 1892,

Be it enacted by the genera] assembly of Virginia, That
the act entitled an act to incorporate the Ladies’ memo-
rial association of Fredericksburg, be amended and re-en-
acted to read as follows:

1. That Mrs. L. O. Magrath, Mrs. Lucilla Bradley, Mrs.
Josiah Hazard, Mrs. John T. Goolrick, Mrs. Wm. S. Bar-
ton, Mrs. M. M. Lewis, Mrs. J. H. Lacy, Mrs. M. K. Daniel,
Mrs. Ann F. T. Fitzhugh, Mrs. C. Ellen Ford, Mrs. S. W.
Carmichael, Mrs. Leslie T. Kearsley, Mrs. J. N. Barney, Mrs.
Chas. Cash, Mrs. Irene McDowell, Mrs. Margaret Alexan-
der, Mrs. L. L. Coghill, Miss Nora Goolrick, Miss Ellen P.
Chew and Miss Virginia Knox, be and are, constituted a
body corporate, under the name and style of the Ladies’
memorial association of Fredericksburg, and by this
name and style, shall be invested with perpetual succes-
sion, and have a common seal; may sue and be sued,
implead and be impleaded, and in all respects shall be
invested with the rights and privileges conferred and sub-
ject to the restrictions and regulations prescribed for
corporations, in the code of Virginia, eighteen hundred
and eighty-seven, so far as the same may be applicable to
such an association and not inconsistent with this act.
That Mrs. John T. Goolrick shall be president, Mrs. C.
Ellen Ford and Mrs. S. W. Carmichael shall be vice-pres-
idents, and Mrs. J. N. Barney, secretary. The whole of
the said before mentioned incorporators shall constitute
the executive committee of said association, seven of
whom shall constitute a quorum to transact business, and
said executive committee shall have authority, from time
0 time, to fill all vacancies that may occur in the offices’
f said association, or executive committee, whether by
eath, resignation, removal from the state or otherwise.

2. The object and purpose of this corporation shall be
o purchase and beautify grounds, to erect thereon suita-,
yle monuments and tombstones, and to identify, mark
nd decorate the graves of Confederate soldiers interred
n said grounds, or removed to the same, and the opera-
ions of said corporation shall be confined to such objects.

3. The officers of said corporation shall consist of a:
president, two vice-presidents, a secretary, treasurer, and
xxecutive committee of not more than twenty members.

4. In promotion of this object, the corporation may
acquire and hold real and personal estate not exceeding
in the aggregate, one hundred thousand dollars, and may
invest its funds in such a manner as may seem to it
best; but in no event shall said corporation be authorized
to acquire any property from, or have a lottery, gift, con-
cert, or any scheme of similar nature.

5. The said corporation may sell and convey any lots
in its grounds, for purposes of burial of others than Con-
federate soldiers, and said lots shall be considered as
personal and not real estate. - That section sixth of
the act of April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sev-
enty-four, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and in
lieu thereof, the following shall constitute section sixth
of this act.

6. The said association shall have authority to select
some suitable gentleman, resident of Fredericksburg, as
treasurer of the said association, and shall require of
him a bond, payable to the said association, in the pen-
alty of not less than two thousand dollars, with two good
securities, conditioned for the faithful performance of
his duties, and that he will account for, and pay over all
moneys that may come into his hands as such treasurer,
Wm. H. Russell being so regularly chosen as treasurer of
said association on December second, eighteen hundred
and ninety-one.

7. The voluntary association by the name of the La-
dies’ memorial association of Fredericksburg, organized
as such in eighteen hundred and sixty-five, having turned
over on the second day of December, eighteen hundred
and ninety-one, all of its affairs and assets to the said
incorporated association organized formally on said date,
though informally organized in eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, all the acts and doings of the said associa-
tion, whether voluntary or incorporated, since eighteen
and seventy-four are ratified; and all the property, real
and personal, belonging to the said voluntary association,
is hereby declared to be the property of the said incorpo-
ration; and all persons, whether as trustees or otherwise,
holding said property. or owning said voluntary associa-
tion are authorized and required to convey said property
and to account therefor to said incorporation, who shall
hold the said property, real and personal, strictly for the
objects contemplated by this association.

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