Chap. 324.—An ACT to Ineorporate the Fredericksburg and adjacent national
battlefields memorial park assuciation of Virginia,

Approved February 12, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the fol-
lowing, nearly all of whom served in the Union and Confederate
armies during the war eighteen hundred and sixty-one-sixty-five, from
the states respectively named, viz: Maine—Joshua Chamberlain, Frank-
lin M. Drew, A. C. ILamlin, Thos. W. Hyde; New Hampshire—R. N.
Batchelder, W. IT. D. Cochrane, 8S. G. Griffin; Vermont—Charles G.
Gould, Wm. W. Henry, T. 8. Peck,J. H. Walbridge ; Massachusetts—
John D. Billings, Augustus J. Hoitt, A. P. Martin, George W. Morse,
Hannibal D. Norton, OW. Scott ; "Rhode Island—D. Russell Brown,
Herbert W. Ladd ; Connectieut—G. D. Bates, L. A. Dickinson, Henry
C. Dwight, FE. kK. Marvin ; New York—Daniel Butterfield, L. P. di
Cesnola, Amos Cummingygs,* Peter C. Doyle, H. 8. Fairchild, F. D.
Grant, Horatio C. King, M. T. McMahon, Warner Miller, Charles
Broadway Rouss, George D. Ruggles, Daniel E. Sickles, Orland Smith,
James Tanner, B. F. Tracey, Samuel Truesdell, Alex. 8. Webb, Thos.
Wilson, Jno. S. Wise, John T. Lockman; New Jersey—K. A. Carman,
Henry D. Clark, John J. Gardner, W. J. Sewell, Julian Scott, Wm. 8.
Strvekler, George B. Fielder; Pennsylvania—Jas. A. Beaver, W. W.
Brown, H. H. Cummings, Col. Durland, D. M. M. Gregg, J. D. Hicks,
Ss. W. Hill, J. W. Ifofman, Thaddeus M. Mahon, George W. Me-
Cracken, St. Clair A. Mulholland, R. R. Ricketts, Roy Stone, William
A. Stone, Jno. M. Vanderslice, John Russel Young : Delaware—Benj.
]). Bogia, A. M. Hizar ; District of Columbia—Henry L. Briscoe, John
C assels, Thos. 8S. Hopkins, James B. Sener, H. G. Wright ; Mary land—
R andolph B arton, A. EK. King, Charles Marshall, Geo. Alfred Town-
send, Felix Agnus; Virgina—Chancellor Bailey, Wm. E. Bradlev,
James D. Brady, J. IT. Capers, Henry G. Chesley, E. Dorsey Cole,
B. C. Cook, James P. Corbin, Leander Cotton, J. P. H. Crismond,
Hf. F. Crismond, John W. Daniel, A. T. Embrey, St. George R. Fitz-
hugh, Hf. R. Gouldman, O. Ik. Hine, W. A. Jones, John T. Knight,
Fitzhuch Lee, Daniel M. Lee, W. A. ‘Little, Jr., Jas. S. Knox, Dabney
If. Maury, Terence MeCrac Ken, T. E. Morris, J. W. Morton, E. T. D.
Meyers, i. B. Nichols, J. S. Potter, S. J. Quinn, A. P. Rowe, M. B.
Rowe, G. W. Shepherd, James P. Smith, Walter H. Taylor, A. W.
Wallace, James A. Walker, John G. Williams, M. G. Willis, Robert
W. Hunter, G. C. Wharton, A. L. Minter, Morton Marye, S. S. Sur-
gener, R. S. Parks, J. Bell Bigger, B. W. T.. Blanton, W. R. Duke, J. W.
Southall, W. E. Foster, Jos. E. Willard, J. F. Ryan, Geo. W. LeCato,
Jed. Hotchkiss, R. G. Turpin, W. D. Quesenberry, J. C. Featherstone ;
West Virginia—Cecil Clay, Charles J. Faulkner, John W. Mason, A. C.
Moore; North Carolina—James E. Boyd, Walter Clark, A. B. Andrews,
John B. Hussey, A. M. Waddell; South Carolina—M. C. Butler, Wil-
liam Elliott, W. Jasper Talbert; Georgia—Clement A. Evans, Leonidas
F. Livingston, James Longstreet, William A. Wright; Florida—D. Lang,
F. P. Flemming; Alabama—John T. Morgan, Leander J. Bryan, E. W.
Pettus; Mississippi—T. C. Catchings, Edward C. Walthall, Thomas H.
Woods; Louisiana—Dawson A. Blanchard, Doneldson Caffery; Texas—
J)avid B. Culberson, F. Charles Hume, J. C. Hutcheson, Rudolph Kle-
berg, Samuel T. W. Lanham, A. F. Watts; Arkansas—James K. Jones,
Wilham L. Terry; Tennessee—William B. Bate, N. N. Cox, James D.
Richardson, William H. Jackson; Kentucky—J. C.S. Blackburn, Wal-
ter Evans, William Lindsay; Ohio—Josiah B. Allen, R. R. Dawes, Cor-
nelius B. Cadle, Lucien J. Fenton, Archibald Lybrand, A. J. Warner,
Charles L. Young; Indiana—R. S. Foster, W. W. Dudley, J. Smith
Talley; Illinois—John C. Black, D. W. Mills, R. N. Pearson, George E.
White, Thomas J. Henderson; Michigan—J. C. Burrows, Byron M.
Cutcheon, A. Milnes; Wisconsin—E. 8. Bragg, Thomas 8. Allen, John
J. Jenkins; Minnesota—William W. Folwell, Page Morris, Elisha B.
Wood; Iowa—John F. Lacey, George A. Stone; Missouri—R. R. Hutch-
inson, George Minch, Robert McCulloch, John B. Pachall; California—
Harlow L. Street; South Dakota—Freeman Knowles; Nebraska—John
M. Thurston, Jesse B. Strode; Kansas—Case Broderick; Wyoming—C.
F. Miller, F. E. Warren; Colorado—Jacob Downing, and their successors
be, and they are hereby, incorporated as a body politic and corporate
under and by the name and style of ‘‘the Fredericksburg and adjacent
national battlefields memorial park association of Virginia.’”? This cor-
poration may sue and be sued, and have and use a common seal and
have succession and make such by-laws as it wishes not inconsistent with
the laws of this state or of the United States, and may alter and amend
the same at pleasure, and shall have the power to receive, rent, lease,
purchase, hold, acquire, and operate, in any way that a natural per-
son might acquire and operate the same, such real and personal pro-
perty of all kinds as may be necessary for the ligitimate purposes of this
corporation. The incorporators and members of the association are not
to have any capital stock or to declare any dividends as their corpora-
tion is not organized for pecuniary or personal gain or benefits. And
the incorporators of this association being distinguished soldiers and
citizens from all sections of the Union, who have joined in the great
work which is the object of this charter, from motives of the highest
patriotism, it is expressly declared that they in accepting as incorpora-
tors herein, and those who may hereafter be associated with them, they
and their successors shall in nowise be personally liable by reason of
being incorporators or members of this association.
_ The chief office and place of business of this corporation and the
place of holding its meetings shall be in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

2. That the object of this association is to mark and preserve the
battleficlds of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, and
Spotsylvania Courth oysay lend adjacent battle grounds, “6n which were
fought those great battles of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, eighteen
hundred and sixty-three and eighteen hundred and sixty-four, together
with the natural and artificial features, as far as possible, as they were
at the times of said battles, by such memorial stones, tablets, or monu-
ments as the generous people ‘of the United States or the government of
the United States may see fit to erect to commemorate the valor dis-
played by the American soldiery on those bloody fields, and it may
tuke such steps as it deems proper to induce the congress of the United
States to do all necessary work appertaining thereto.

3. That the particular business for which this charter is granted is to
acquire and hold by purchase, lease. devise, grant or gift, such real and
personal property and effects, and all such portions of said. battlefields
or roads leading thereto through or therefrom.as may be neces*ary or
convenient to promote and accomplish the objects of this incorporation
and upon the grounds thus acquired and upon private grounds with the
permission of the owners, to enclose and take fitting care of all such
grounds, to keep them in repair and preservation, to construct and
minaitain ways and roads, to improve and ornament said grounds and
to erect and secure the erection by the association, and by contributions
from states, counties, corporations and citizens of the United States, of
suitable monuments, and the association, for the purposes of its incor-
poration, shall have authority to solicit and receive subscriptions from
the national, state, county and city governments, and from corporations
and individuals, but the company is not to buy lands for the purpose of
selling them to the government at an increased price.

4. The property and the affairs of this incorporation shall be managed
and controlled by the incorporators hereinbefore mentioned and their
successors, and the association is authorized to fill all vacancies in its
body that may happen from death, resignation, failure to act, or other-
wise, so that the number of said members of this association shall always
havea membership of at least twenty-nine, and in this body the counties
of Orange, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and the city of Fredericksburg, shall
always be represented by one or more members; and a quorum of said
association shall consist of fifteen or more members for the transaction
of business.

5. The officers of this association shall consist of a chairman, vice-
chairman, secretary and a treasurer to be chosen by the association at
its first mecting which may be within ten days after the passage of this
act. The said ollicers and their successors shall hold their offices at the
pleasure of the association which shall have authority from time to time
to change such oflicers or to fill vacancies in such offices. This associa-
tion may delegate and appoint an executive committee of not more than
fifteen members of this’ association, to whom, subject to the control of
the association, it shall be lawful to delegate the management of its
alfairs.

6. That all the property of this association whether real, personal or
mixed, shall be held in trust strictly for the objects hereinbefore set
forth, and none other, and shalJl be forever exempt from all taxation
whether state, city or county.

7. That this act shal] take effect from and after its passage.