Chap. 591.—An ACT to incorporate the Virginia state veterinary medical asso-
ciation.

Approved March 3, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That W.
H. Harbaugh, E. P. Niles, George C. Faville, William T. Gilchrist,
J. H. Adamson, T. A. Donaldson, Joseph T. Bushman, A. W. Swed-
berg, as well as all others who may be hereafter admitted to mem-
bership with them, be a body politic and corporate by the name of
the State of Virginia veterinary medical associations that they shall
be capable of suing and of being sued; that they shall have perpetual
succession and be authorized to use a common seal.

2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the veterinary
medical association thus constituted to enact all such by-laws as
they may deem necessary and proper for obtaining the objects of
their institution and not contrary to the constitution or laws of the
United States or of the commonwealth of Virginia.

3. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said asso-
ciation to require of persons admitted to membership therein such
admission fees and annual contributions as a legal quorum thereof
may from time to time enact; and if any member shall refuse or
fail to pay such admission fee or annual contribution, that the same
shall be recoverable by the association on motion, with ten days’
notice, before the proper courts of this commonwealth, or in any
county, city or corporation whereof the member so failing or refusing
to pay shall be an inhabitant.

4. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said asso-
ciation to hold, under any title recognized by the laws of Virginia,
such buildings as may be required for their immediate personal ac-
commodation as an association, for lecturing rooms, for a dissecting
room, and such other apartments as may be manifestly necessary or
convenient for the promotion of veterinary medical knowledge.

5. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said asso-
ciation to hold, under any title recognized by the laws of Virginia,
whether coming to them by purchase, donation or otherwise, s0 much
real property, exclusive of that mentioned in the fourth section of
this act, whereof the clear income, on an average of ten years, shall
not exceed two thousand dollars per annum.

6. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be at all times subject
to be altered, amended or repealed, as the legislature of Virginia
shall deem necessary and proper.

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