Chap. 370.—An ACT to incorporate the Police benevolent association of Rich-
mond, Virgimia.

Approved February 17, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That R. M.
Taylor, B. F. Howard, J. BW elsh, J. B. Angle, L. C. Figg, E. P.
Hulce, D. A. W einbrann, W.L. Thomas, J. F. Jacob, W. B. Whitlock,
C. G. Bosher, J. A. Coshy, Joseph W. Laube, A. R. Cousins, Doctor
C. W. P. Brock, S. W. Noldcraft, FE. B. White, W. T. Foster and H.
W. Thomas, their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby,
constituted a body corporate and politic by the name of the Police
benevolent association of Richmond, Virginia, and by that name shall
have perpetual succession and a common seal, sue and be sued in all of
the courts of this commonwealth, and shall have and exercise all the
rights, powers and privileges, and be subject to all the laws, restrictions
and regulations pertaining to corporate bodies of this character.

2. The object of the said association shall be to provide by an agsess-
ment upon its active members a fund for defraying the funeral expenses
of deceased members of the police department of the city of Richmond
and the wives of such members, and also to accumulate a fund in order
to provide by way of a pension for the maintenance and support of
those members of the pulice department of the city of Richmond, who,
after honorable service in said department, shall be retired therefrom by
reason of sickness, old age, wounds and other infirmities.

The members of said association shall be life, contributing and
active members. The active members of said association shall be the
members of the police department of the city of Richmond. Only the
active members of said association and those who have been honorably
retired therefrom and the families of such members shall be entitled to
receive or share in any of the pecuniary benefits of said association.

+. The mavor, police surgeon, members and clerk of the board of
police commissioners of the citv of Richmond shall be ex ofhcio mem-
bers of said association, and may vote and hold office therein; but thev
shall not as such be liable to anv assessments or share in any of the
pecuniary benefits of said association,

5. The said association may make assessments upon its active mem-
hers for the payment of funeral benefits, and may receive by gift, grant,
bequest and devise real and personal estate and hold the same as a pen-

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sion fund, and the same shall be used for the maintenance and support
of retired members of the police department of the city of Richmond
and their families, and for no other purpose, unless otherwise specitied
in the deed, will or other writing by which such gift, grant, bequest or
devise is made.

6. The said association may acquire and hold real estate not excced-
ing one acre in the city of Richmond or one hundred acres elsewhere in
this state.

7. The said association shall elect such officers and directors as may
be proper, and may require from them bond and security conditioned
for the faithful performance of their duties, and may make all necessary
by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of the association not
inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of this state.

8. All taxes and debts which may become due to this state by said
association shall be paid in current money and not in coupons.

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