Chap. 260.—An ACT to incorporate the State Executive Committee of the
Young Men’s Christian Associations of the State of Virginia.

Approved February 15, 1804.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That John R.
West, Charles K. Willis, R. E. Michaels, J. Taylor Ellyson, Joseph
Bryan, B. F. Johnson, D. J. Weisiger, W. W. Smith, P. W. Phillips, O.
V.Smith, R. M. Smith, W. W. Vicar, L. L. Marks, Simon Seward, W.
B. Brooks, J.JP. Pettyjohn, G. A. Diuguid, junior, R. J. McBryde, W.S.
McClanahan, H. M. McIlhany and T.C. Morton, being the persons who
how constitute the State Executive Committee of the Young Men’s
Christian Associations of the State of Virginia, and their associates
and successors in office, are hereby constituted a body corporate and
politic, with the general powers, privileges and liabilities of corpora-
tions, by the name of the State Executive Committee of the Young
Men’s Christian Associations of the State of Virginia. ,
2. The object of the said incorporation shall be to establish and
assist In maintaining young men’s christian associations in the state
of Virginia, and generally to provide for the spiritual, intellectual,
physical and social well-being of young men in accordance with the
aims and methods of young men’s christian associations of the state
of Virginia.

3. The management and disposition of affairs of said corporation
shall be vested in a committee composed of the individuals named
in the first section of this act as incorporators and their associates
and successors in office, chosen at the annual meetings of the young
men’s christian associations of the stateof Virginia. If any vacancy
shal] occur during the interim of the said annual meetings it shall
be filled by a majority of the votes of the remaining members of the
committee.

4. The said corporation shall possess the general powers, rights,
privileges and exemptions of religious, charitable and educational
institutions.

5. The said corporation shall be in law capable of taking, receiv-
Ing and holding absolutely and in trust for its general uses and pur-
poses and for any particular department of its work, and for any
particular association, by gift, devise, bequest, grant or purchase,
real and personal property, and, with the consent of the board of
trustees herein provided for, of letting, leasing and conveying the
same, and shall also have power, with the like consent, to issue bonds
and secure the same by mortgage upon its real estate and its improve-
ments, the consent of the said trustees to be evidenced by affixing
their seal to the instruments of conveyance and bonds and mort-
gages, and causing the rame to be-signed by their president and
treasurer, in pursuance of a resolution of their board to that effect.

6. The real estate of this corporation shall not be liable for any
debt or obligation of the corporation unless the same shall have
been contracted with the approval of the said board of trustees.

7. The said corporation shall have the power to make and adopt a
constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of
its business, the management of its affairs, the choice, powers and
duties of its officers and agents, and from time to time to repeal or
alter such constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations.

8. All real property which shall be given to or acquired by this
corporation, and all gifts and bequests of money to be held in trust,
shall be held and shall be managed by a board of trustees, not less
than five in number nor more than seven, and of which board the
chairman of said state executive committee shall be a member by
virtue of his office. Three members of the said board, for the time
being, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business.
S. W. Travers, J. W. Blanton, W. J. Whitehurst, Howard Swineford,
H. D. Peck, J. Gordon Payne and the chairman of said executive
committee are hereby created such board of trustees; and whenever
& vacancy occurs in the said board of trustees the same shall be
filled on nomination of said state executive committee by a majority
vote of the remaining trustees.
9. The income which the said board of trustees shall receive from
the property under its management, and the said property, shall be
devoted to the purpose of this act, and for no other purpose, and so
long as the state executive committee shall so expend the same, the
income of the property so managed by the said board of trustees
shall be paid over to the treasurer of the said state executive com-
mittee.

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