Chap. 108.—An ACT. to amend and re-enact sections 1,2 and 3 of an act ap-
proved February 24, 1890, entitled an act to incorporate the Baptist orphan-
age of Virginia.

Approved January 30, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
ions one, two and three of an act of the general assembly of Vir-
yinia, entitled an act to incorporate the Baptist orphanage of Vir-
rinia, approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and
1inety, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1. That A. B. Woodfin, A. A. Gray, J. William Howard, James
3. Taylor, Peter Howard, J. B. F. Mills, Carter N. Williams, W. I.
‘ordan, B. F. Johnson, A. Broaddus, junior, F. N. Maxey, M. M.
forris, W. W. Baker, J. A. Leslie, W. C. Parks, T. J. Nottingham,
. B. Lake, William Campbell, J. Hunt Hargrove, junior, George W.
one, W. L. Jeffries, W. R. L. Smith, C..L. Cocke, and their succes-
ors, as they may be from time to time appointed, as hereinafter
provided, are appointed a body politic and corporate under the name
and style of the Trustees of the Baptist orphanage of Virginia, for
the purpose of maintaining, training and educating the Baptist
orphans of Virginia, or such other orphans as in the discretion of
the trustees they may deem fit to assist, and by that name shall
have perpetual succession and a common seal; may contract and be
contracted with, sue and be sued, may acquire, receive, hold, possess
and enjoy, and may sell, convey, invest and otherwise manage or
dispose of all property, real or personal, which may be given to or
otherwise acquired by the aforesaid trustees. And the said trustees
and their successors shall hold office as trustees no longer than they
remain in office as members of some Baptist church in Virginia, or
until their successors enter upon the discharge of their duties as
trustees: provided that the property, real and personal, shall not
exceed in value three hundred thousand dollars.

& 2. The said trustees and their successors, to a number not ex-
ceeding forty as a board, shall have power to fill vacancies in their
own body, the persons to fill such vacancies to be chosen from a list
of not less than two persons for each vacancy, which list of persons
the Baptist general association of Virginia shall have the privilege
of furnishing; and should said trustees fail or refuse to fill vacan-
cies In their body from such list when so furnished, then and in
that event any person in fellowship with any regular Baptist church
in Virginia may apply for and obtain a writ of mandamus from any
court of this commonwealth having jurisdiction of such writs, com-
pelling said trustees to fill vacancies from such lists. But if the
Baptist general association of Virginia, when duly notified, does not
furnish such list of persons as aforesaid, then the trustees may fill
vacancies independent of such list of persons: provided the persons
to fill the vacancies be chosen from the Baptist denomination of
Virginia. The trustees shall have power to appoint such officers as
may be requisite, and exact from any of them such bond or other
security in such penalty as the trustees may direct, conditioned upon
the faithful performance of their duties, and to select a suitable
place for the location of the buildings necessary for the purposes of
said corporation.

< 3. Seven trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
of business, but it shall require a majority of all the trustees to con-
stitute a quorum in any meeting ordering the sale of real estate be-
longing to the corporation.

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