Chap. 315.—An ACT to incorporate the Staunton society for the prevention of
cruelty to animals.

Approved February 20, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Alex-
ander F. Robertson, R. D. Haislip, Jed. Hotchkiss, Thomas D.
Ranson, R. M. Guy, H. M. MclIleaney, H. W. Henry, W. W. McGuf.-
fin, I. A. Templeton, A. Lee Knowles and A. J. Burkholder, all of the
city of Staunton, in the state of Virginia, and such other persons ag
are now or may hereafter be associated with them, and their succes-
sors, be, and they are hereby, constituted a body corporate, under the
name and style of the Staunton society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals, and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a
common eeal. The object of the said corporation shall be the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals. The said corporation may sue or be
sued, contract and be contracted with; may acquire by purchase, gift,
devise or bequest, property real or personal, and may lease, manage,
control, exchange, sell, convey or dispose of said property. The
value of real property to be held by said corporation at any one
time shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, and the
amount of personal property shall not exceed one thousand dollars.
The officers of said corporation shall consist of a president, five
vice-presidents, one secretary, one treasurer, who, together with the
counsel of said corporation, shall be ex officio members of the ex-
ecutive committee, which committee shall consist of ten members
in addition to the ex officio members aforesaid. The foregoing
officers shall be chosen from among the members of the society, in
such manuer as its by-laws may prescribe. A library may be created
for the use of the society. The said society, for fixing the terms of
admission of its members, for the government of the same, for the elec-
tion, changing and altering the officers above named, and for the
general regulation and management of its affairs, shall have power to
form a code of by-laws not inconsistent with the laws of the state of
Virginia or of the United States, which code, when framed and adopted
at a regular. meeting, shall, until modified or rescinded, be equally
binding as this act upon the society, its officers and members.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.