Chap. 687.—An ACT to incorporate the Border mutual benefit association of
: anville, Virginia.

Approved March 3, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That J. E.
Perkinson, J. F. Carothers, J. H. Rhodes, W. E. Griggs, George T.
Fitzgerald and C. W. Throckmorton, of the city of Danville, Virgi-
nia, and their associates, successors and assigns, be, and are hereby,
constituted a body corporate and politic by the name of the Border
mutual benefit association, and by that name shall be known in
law, and shall have perpetual succession, and shall have power
to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts, and
may make and have a common seal and alter the same at plea-
sure, and shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, powers
and privileges pertaining to corporate bodies and necessary for the
purposes hereinafter set forth: and may make a constitution, by-
laws, rules and regulations, consistent with the existing laws of the
state, for the government of all under its authority, for the manage-
ment of its estates and properties, and for the due and orderly con-
duct of its affairs; the general objects of said association being:

First. To unite all persons of sound bodily health and good moral
character.

Second. To give all material aid in its power to its members and
the families of deceased members.

Third. To establish a fund for the relief of sick and distressed
members, and for the payment of benefits after certain periods of
membership.

Fourth. To establish a benefit funeral fund from which the fam-
ily or dependents of members of said association who shall have
complied with all its rules and regulations, and on satisfactory evi-
dence that the necessities of whose family require such aid, may re-
ceive, at the death of such member, a sum not to exceed one hundred

ollars.

2. The said association may acquire and own real estate not to ex-
ceed fifty acres at any one time, and its principal office shall be in
the city of Danville.

3. All taxes and debts due the state shall be paid in money, and
not in coupons.

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