CHAP. 722.—An ACT to ingorporate Lynchburg lodge, No. 1,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Approved March 4, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That Royall Alexander, T. H. Jackson, Royal P. Butler,
Q. W. Duffy, Philip Franklin, D. A. Butler, Robert Chris-
tian, John Merchant, Stephen Servis, Holcomb Scott,
Benjamin Booker, Preston Murphy, John Curle, Charles
H. Shearer, William Logwood, Roderick Davia, Robert
Johnson, John Evans, John Jennings, Wesley Cunning-
ham, Edmund Eldridge, Charles Dickerson, James H.
Thomas, the present officers and members of Lynchburg
lodge, number one, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of
Lynchburg, Virginia, and their successors, be, and they
are hereby, declared to be a corporation and body politic
by the name, style and title of Lynchburg lodge, number
one, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and shall be
capable in law to have, receive and hold, by purchase,
gift, devise or bequest real or personal estate, and lease,
rent, sell or otherwise dispose of the same in such manner
as may be advantageous: provided, always, that the said
corporation or body politic shall not at any time hold or
possess property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding in
value the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.

2. The object of this association, incorporated by this
act, shall be the mutual] benefit, protection and assistance
of its members, the care of their widows and orphans and
provision for the burial of its members when dead.

3. The said corporation and their successors, by the
name and style aforesaid, shall be capable in law to sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be de-
fended in any of the courts of the state, and it shall be
lawful for the said corporation to have a common sea) for
its use, and the same to make, renew, alter or change at
will; in general, said corporation shall exercise such rights,
privileges and immunities as by law are incident or neces-
sary to incorporations, and especially what is necessary to
the corporation herein constituted, including the power to
make and adopt a constitution and by-laws, rules and reg-
ulations for the government and election of its officers, and
to define their duties, and for the safe-keeping and protec-
tion of its property: provided the same be not inconsist-
ent with the laws of the United States and of this state.

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