Chap. 15.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled ‘ An act to
Incorporate the Progressive endowment guild of America,’ approved January
10, 1590, and to change the name of said corporation to The American guild.

Approved December 20, 1897.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act entitled An aet to incorporate the Progressive endow-
ment guild of America’? approved January tenth, eighteen hundred
and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to re ad as tullaws:

S$ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Joseph
A. White, W. L. Waring, junior, J. Y. Downman, J. Tavlor Kellvson,
S. Galeski, Wilham Ryan, and George Bryan, of the city of Richmond,
and their associates, successors and assigns, be, and are hereby, consti-
tuted a bedy corporate and politic by the name of The American guild,
and by that name shall be known in law, and shall have perpetual sue-
cession, and shall have power to sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded in all courts, and may make and have a common seal, and
alter the same at pleasure, and shall have, exercise, and enjoy all
rights, powers, and privileges pertaining to corporate holies and neces-

sary for the purposes hereinafter set forth, and may make a constitu-
tion, by-laws, rules and regulations consistent with the ex xisting laws of
the state for the geovernment of all under its authority, for the manage-
ment of its estates and properties, and for the due and orderly conduct
of its affairs, the general objects of said guild being:
' First. To unite fraternally all white persons of sound bodily health
and good moral character who are socially acceptable, and between the
ages of eighteen and fifty-five years.

Second. To give all material aid in its power to its members and
those dependent on them.

Third. To establish a fund for the relief. of sick and distressed mem-
bers.

Fourth. To issue certificates to its members and to establish benefit
and other funds, from which the members of said guild, who shall
have paid all required assessments or dues, and shall have complied
with all its rules and regulations, mav receive at the end of a certain
period a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, or from which, on
satisfactory evidence of the death of a member who shall have so paid
and shall have so complied with such rules and regulations, a sum not
exceeding five thousand dollars may be paid to such person or persons
from among the family heirs or blood relatives of the member or persons
dependent upon the member, or to his or her affianced husband or wile,
as the member may have designated in the certificate, or in case of
failure to so designate, to such persons among the foregoing as the by-
laws of the said guild may determine.

All: acts done, and property, real and personal, acquired by the
sald corporation heretofore, shall stand and be valid in all respects as if
the same had been done and acquired under the name of The American
guild, and be binding on the said corporation under the said name.
And the said corporation may in respect to any of said acts or of said
property, real or personal, validly use the corporate name of the
American guild, and make valid cony eyances, by deed or grant, under
the said corporate name.

3. An act approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-
six, entitled ‘‘ An act to authorize the Progres ssive endowment guild of
America to deposit securities with the state treasurer and to make
annual reports to the auditor,’’ shall apply in all its provisions and
terms to the American guild, ‘with the same effect as if the corporate
name of the said fraternal beneficiary order had been denominated in
said act The American guild.

4. This act shall be in force on and after the first dav of January,
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.