Chap. 230.—An ACT to incorporate the board of trade of Martinsville, for the
purpose of encouraging, promoting, and regulating the sale of and trade in
leaf tobacco in said town.

Approved February 5, 1896.

1. Be it-enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That for the
purpose of encouraging, promoting, and regulating the sale of leaf
tobacco and trade therein in the town of Martinsville, Virginia, so
far as the same may be done under and in accordance with the laws
of this commonwealth, W. M. Semple, G. B. Dudley, W. R. Nunn, J.
D. Stultz, G. H. Semple, J. H. Spencer, Pannill Rucker, W.S. Brown,
P. P. Watson, George W. Coan, J. L. English, J. B. Sparrow, A. D.
Stultz, B. F. Gravely, H. C. Lester, J. H. Stanley, J. E. Philpott, B.
P. Davis, J. M. Jarrett, O. C. Smith, A. T. Jones, A. J. Bullington,
and such other persons as they may associate with them, are hereby
chartered and incorporated as a body corporate and politic under the
corporate name of the board of trade of Martinsville.

2. Said board of trade shall be authorized and empowered to make
all necessary rules, by-laws and regulations as a majority of its
members may deem proper for the promotion of its objects and the
purposes of its incorporation, and such rules, by-laws, and regula-
tions to alter, amend or repeal whensoever determined by a majority
vote of any duly constituted meeting of said board of trade.

3. Said board of trade shall have power to elect all such officers as
may be required for its organization and successful operation, and to
enforce the proper observance of all its rules, regulations and by-
laws by such fines and penalties as a majority of the members pres-
entat any call meeting may determine to impose, and by the expulsion
of a member or members by a vote of two-thirds of the members
present at such call meeting; but the mode of assembling any such
call meeting, and also the number of the members necessary to consti-
tute the same, shall be fixed by the by-laws of the said board of
trade, and its regular meetings shall be held at such times as said
board of trade shall determine.

4. All fines and penalties imposed by said board of trade upon its
members may be collected hy warrant in the name of its treasurer
before any justice of the peace of the town of Martinsville, and in
case of any offending or delinquent member shall remove from said
town, or shall not reside therein, then before any justice of the peace
within whose jurisdiction he may reside; and said board of trade
moreover shali be authorized to punish by expulsion any member
who may neglect or refuse to pay any fine imposed on him for more
than five days after the same shall have been imposed; but no fine
or penalty impos3d by said board of trade shall exceed fifty dollars
for any one offence.

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