Chap. 647.—An ACT incorporating the Association for the pres-
ervation of Virginia antiquities.

Approved March 8, 1892.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,

That Belle S. Bryan, Cynthia B. T. Coleman, Mary Jeffrey
Galt, Parke C. Bagby, Elizabeth Henry, Lyons, Mary Pe-
gram Anderson, Ann S. Meredith, and such other persons as
are now associated under a charter granted by the circuit
court of the city of Richmond on the thirteenth day of
February, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, under title
of the Association for the preservation of Virginia antiqui-
ties, or may hereafter become associated with them, are
hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the
Association for the preservation of Virginia antiquities,
for the purpose of acquiring, holding and preserving real
and personal property relating to the history of Virginia,
and particularly to restore and preserve the ancient his-
toric buildings, tombs, monuments and grave-yards, and
to acquire by purchase, gift or otherwise, the sites of such
property, buildings, tombs, and grave-yards with a view to
their perpetuation and preservation.

2. The principal office of said association shall be in the
city of Richmond, Virginia, and the said association shall
have power to establish branch associations in such other
places as said association may select; and the branches
so established shall be subordinate to and governed by the
parent association established in the city of Richmond;
and the parent association may make such rules, by-laws
and regulations for the government of the branch associa-
tions as to if may seem proper and necessary.

3. The said association shall have power to make and
adopt a constitution and by-laws, rules and regulations
for the admission of its members and the members of its
branch associations, the election of its officers, and to de-
fine the rights and interests of members and the duties of
officers, and for the safe-keeping and preservation of its
property and funds, and from time to time to alter or re-
peal such constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations:
provided that the same be not inconsistent with the con-
stitution and laws of the United States or of the state of
Virginia.

4. The association shall have the power to receive, use,
manage and dispose of all funds and property, either real
or personal, that may be purchased, granted, donated, de-
vised or bequeathed it, in such manner and to such amount
as shall seem to it best calculated to advance the objects
of its incorporation.

5. All the property, real, personal or mixed, which said
association now owns or may hereafter acquire by gift,
purchase or otherwise, shall be exempt from all state,
county and city taxes or levies.

6. The amount of real estate which the association may
hold at any one time shall not exceed five thousand acres.

7. Any general meeting of the members of the associa-
tion, regularly called, at which there are present not less
than twenty members, shall be deemed a lawful meeting
for the,transaction of any and all of the business of the
association.
8. All acts hitherto done by the persons associated to-
gether as the Association for the preservation of Virginia
antiquities, and the purchases of all property in the name
of said association, are hereby ratified and confirmed
as if said persons had at the time been regularly incorpo-
rated as said association.

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