Chap. 310.—An ACT to incorporate the King’s daughters’ hospital of Staunton,
Virginia.

Approved February 13, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That James
N. McFarland, G. G. Gooch, James H. Skinner, H. C. Tinsley, W. P.
Tams, R. P. Bell, J. J. Prufer, Henry Walker, Howard Wayt, J. L.
Barth, Reeves Catt, R. P. Ker, A. M. McFultz, F. B. Miller, S. Ker,
V. M. Henkel, S. Martin, H. B. Wilson, H. Guy, P. Wheat, M. Wailke,
¥. McCue, E. Brown, M. Price, M. J. Bissell, F. McIlhaney, M. Shel-
ton, K. Lefwich, J. M. Kinney, M. Speck, M. Ker, L. Woodward, S.
Frazier, N. Miller, 8S. Wren, J. Woods, C. Crowle, J. Bumgardner, M.
Bell, E. Claxton and-E. Miller, or such of them as shall accept this
act, with such other persons as may hereafter be associated with
them, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, constituted and
declared a body politic and corporate, to be known as the King’s
daughters’ hospital of Staunton, Virginia, by which name they shall
be known in Jaw, and shall have perpetual succession and a common
seal, which they may alter at pleasure; shall sue and be sued, and
shall have and exercise all the rights, powers and privileges pertain-
ing to corporations and necessary for the purposes of this act.

2. The corporation shall have the following powers in addition to
the general powers above mentioned, and these powers, or such of
them as it shall exercise, are the purposes for which this corporation
shall exist:

First. To maintain at Staunton, Virginia, a hospital for the medi-
cal and surgical aid, treatment and cure of persons who are sick, de-
formed or suffering from bodily injuries.

Second. To instruct and train suitable persons in the duties of
nurses for the sick.

3. To enable the corporation to exercise the powers hereby granted,
or any of them, it may acquire by purchase, gift or otherwise, all
kinds of property, real and personal or mixed, including the stocks
and bonds of corporations and the obligations of individuals, and
may hold and use the same and take the rents, issues, profits and in-
come thereof for the purposes aforesaid; and may sell, transfer,
mortgage and dispose of said property in any manner, at any time
or times, and on any terms; and all property and the rents, issues,
profits and income thereof while owned by the corporation to an
amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars, shall be wholly exempt
from taxation.

4, The corporation shall have full power to exclude such forms of
disease or sickness as it may be deemed unsafe, improper or imprac-
ticable to admit to its hospital. It shall have the power to collect
tees for medical and surgical treatment and incidental expenses and
to remit the same at its pleasure, and shall have the power to. pre-
scribe and enforce such regulations and adopt such by-laws as it may
deem proper for the conduct of its affairs and for the management
of its hospital, provided the same be not inconsistent with the laws
of the United States and of this commonwealth.
5. The officers of the corporation shall be a president, a secretary
a treasurer, and such other officers as the corporation may appoint;
and the corporation may, by its by-laws, provide for the appoint.
ment of a board of managers or a superintendent, to have general
supervision of its hospital.

6. Meetings of the corporation shall be held annually at such
times and piaces as the corporation may determine, and called meet-
ings shall be held as provided by its by-laws. At all meetings mem-
bers of the corporation shall be entitled to vote by proxy, and after
it shall be fully organized five members shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business.

7. The consolations of religion may be extended to the patients in
the care of the corporation in whatever forms the patients may de-
sire; but no influence shall be exerted within the hospital in the
special interest of any particular religious sect or denomination.

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