Chap. 212.—An ACT to incorporate the Odd-Fellows’ joint stock company of
Alexandria, Va., and to authorize the conveyance to said company of certain
real estate in the city of Alexandria, Va., purchased for its use and benefit.

Approved January 30, 1896.

Whereas James Webster, Robert Darnell, John H. Credit, and
others, on the twelfth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-
nine, associated themselves together under the name of the Odd-
Fellows’ joint stock company of Alexandria, Virginia, with a capital
stock of two thousand four hundred dollars, divided into shares of
the par value of five dollars each, and have since the date of the or-
ganization aforesaid conducted business as a joint stock company ;
and,

Whereas by deed dated November twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-nine, recorded in liber A, number four, folio eighteen of
the land records of Alexandria county, Virginia, a lot of ground on
the west side of Columbus street, between Wolfe and Wilkes street,
in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, was conveyed to James Webster,
Hannibal King, John W. McK. Ware, Robert Darnell, Henry Bailey,
and John H. Credit, trustees of the said company, to be held for its
use and benefit; and,

Whereas the said company has never been incorporated according
to Jaw, but now desires to be legally incorporated: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
said James Webster, Robert Darnell, John H. Credit, and such other
persons as are now or may be hereafter regularly associated with
them, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, incorporated
and created a body politic and corporate under the name and style
of the Odd-Fellows’ joint stock company of Alexandria, Virginia,
and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common
seal, which seal it may amend, alter, or renew at pleasure, and by
that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and may
exercise all the rights and privileges of a corporation under the
laws of the state of Virginia.

2. That the said company shall have power to acquire by grant,
purchase, lease, or other lawful method, and to hold so much real
estate as may be necessary for its purposes, not to exceed in quan-
tity five acres of land, and may dispose of, incumber, or charge the
same at its pleasure by deed, deed of trust, mortgage, or otherwise.

3. That the said James Webster, Hannibal King, John W. McK.
Ware, Robert Darnell, Henry Bailey, and John H. Credit, or the sur-
vivor or survivors of them who are now members and stockholders of
the said company, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered
to convey to the said company the real estate on the west side of
Columbus street, between Wolfe and Wilkes street, in the city of
Alexandria, Virginia, conveyed to them by the said deed of Novem-
ber twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, recorded in liber
A, number four, folio eighteen of the land records of Alexandria
county, Virginia.

4. That the capital of said company shall be five thousand dollars,
divided into one thousand shares of the par value of five dollars
each. The present stockholders of said company shall be entitled
to one share of the stock herein authorized for each share held in
the present organization and surrendered for cancellation and the
issuance of new stock under this charter. The residue of the stock
authorized by this charter shall be held in the treasury and shall
not be issued unless authorized by a three-fourths vote of the stock-
holders at an annual meeting.
5. That the said company shall have power to borrow money, from
time to time as its needs may require, not exceeding in amount at
any one time five thousand dollars, and may secure the payment of
the same by deed of trust or mortgage upon its property, real, per-
sonal, or mixed. .

6. That the said company shall have a president, secretary, treas-
urer, and four directors, who shall be elected annually by the stock-
holders, and shall constitute a board for the management of the
affairs of the said company.

7. That the following named persons shall constitute a board for
the management of the affairs of said company for the first year and
until their successors are duly elected, namely: President, Christo-
pher Brook; secretary and treasurer, Robert Darnell; directors, Wil-
liam H. Davis, Paris Simms, Stanton Miller, and Beverly Diggs.

8. That the first annual meeting of said company shall be held on
the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and
annually thereafter on the first Monday in January of each and
every year.

9. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.