Chap. 386.—An ACT to incorporate the Mary Custis Lee children of the Con-
federacy.

Approved February 17, 1893.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That James
Cardinal Gibbons, Randolph H. McKim, Hunter McGuire, L. M. Black-
ford, S. A. Wallace, Delaware Kemper, Mary Lee Lloyd, Jean C. Yeat-
in, Mary Amelia Smith, Mistress Thomas Turner, Mistress 8. A.
illace and Mistress Robert W. Hunter, and such other persons as may
associated with them, and their successors are hereby constituted
1 declared to be a body politic and corporate by the name and style
the Mary Custis Lee children of the Confederacy, and by that name
ill be known in law and shall have perpetual succession and a com-
yn. seal, with the right to change the same at pleasure, and shall have
izht to sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with and to enjoy
the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the rules incident to
ilar corporations under the general law of the commonwealth.
Phe objects of the said corporation are social and patriotic, and that
ough the children of the Confederacy the name of Mary Custis Lee
v be linked with that of her husband, General Robert Edward Lee,
the hearts of the southern people, and to perpetuate among their de-
ndants the memory of men who assisted the Confederate States in
> Jate civil strife and for the collection and preservation of historical
ics and documents relating to that period.
3. The principal office of the said corporation shall be in the city of
exandria, Virginia.
4. The members of the said corporation shall have authority to adopt
constitution and by-laws, to prescribe rules and regulations for its
vernment and the promotion of its interests, for the adinission, sus-
nsion and expulsion of members, and to amend the constitution and
-laws in the manner to be therein prescribed. The oflicers of the
id corporation shall be a president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer,
d such other officers as may be deemed necessary, and they shall be
-cted in such manner and at such times and shall hold oflice for such
‘ms and perform such duties as the constitution and by-laws shall pre-
ribe.
6. Said corporation may acquire property by gift, devise or purchase
di may use, manage and dispose of the same in such manner as may
deemed best to advance the object of its incorporation.
7. All the property, real, personal or mixed, which said corporation
yw owns or may hereafter acquire by gift, purchase or otherwise shal
-exempt from all state, county and city taxes or levies.
8. The amount of real estate which the said corporation may hold at
1y time shall not exceed one thousand (1000) acres.
Y. This act shall be in force from its passage.