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Volume | 1893/1894 |
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Law Number | 533 |
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Chap. 533.—An ACT to incorporate the Virginia home for incurables.
Approved March 1, 1894.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Mary
Greenhow, Samuel C. Greenhow, James B. Pace, Peyton R. Carring-
ton, Edward T. Crump, C. M. Blackford, Arthur B. Clark, Walter H.
Taylor, Henry L. Valentine, Henry M. Tyler, Mistress Sarah Carring-
ton, Mistress Bettie G. Maury, Mistress Juliet Powers, Mistress
Fannie C. Tucker, Mistress Sallie Bidgood, Mistress Bettie Pace,
Mistress Mary A. Tyler, Mistress Mary W. Tatum, Mistress Mary
Buford, and such others as are now or may hereafter become associ-
ated with them, and their successors, shall be, and are hereby, created
and constituted a body politic and corporate under the name of the
Virginia home for incurables.
2. The object and purpose of this incorporation is by voluntary con-
tributions and gifts to establish, provide and maintain within this
state a comfortable and permanent home for indigent white citizens of
this state afflicted with an incurable physical disability or disease not
malignantly contagious, and to provide such inmates with proper
medical treatment and attendance.
3. The said corporation may take and hold any estate, money,
property or effects which may be of value to it in promoting its ob-
jects, and may acquire the same by gifts, donation, lease, loan, pur-
chase, devise or bequest: provided that it shall not hold at any one
time property of any kind to an amount exceeding five hundred
thousand dollars, nor more than five hundred acres of land.
4. Membership shall consist of annual, life and honorary mem-
bers, upon such terms and conditions as shall be prescribed in the
by-laws. Any general or special meeting of the corporation regu-
larly called, at which are twenty members, shall be deemed a lawful
meeting for the transaction of any or all of the business of the cor-
poration.
5. The said corporation shall have perpetual succession and a
common seal; may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with,
and shall have power to adopt a constitution and make such by-
laws, rules and regulations for the admission and expulsion of its
members and inmates and their government, the election of its offi-
cers, agents and employees, and the defining their duties and fixing
their salaries, and provide for the safe-keeping and use of its property
and funds; and by its board of directors or trustees from time to
time to alter, amend or repeal such by-laws, rules and regulations,
fill all vacancies in the board or among its officers, agents and so
forth, and generally do every act and thing necessary or useful to
carry into effect this act and to promote, encourage and effect the
purpose and objects of this incorporation.
6. Inasmuch as this corporation is organized and to be maintained
by voluntary contributions asa charitable institution for the use
and benefit of the indigent white citizens of this commonwealth
suffering from incurable disease, all of its property, real, personal
or mixed, now owned, or which may be hereafter acquired by it,
shall be exempt from all state, county or city taxes and levies, as
well as the license tax imposed upon charters so long as said cor-
poration remains a purely charitable and benevolent institution.
7. This act shall be in force from its passage and shall be subject
to repeal, alteration or amendment by the general assembly.