Chap. 420.—An ACT to incorporate the trustees of the Joseph H. Sands division,
No. 401, of the Grand international brotherhood of locomotive engineers.

Approved February 21, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That O. P.
Woodson, Martin Peters and J. M. Sanderson, and their successors, be,
and they are hereby, appointed a body politic and corporate by the
name and style of the trustees of the Joseph H. Sands division, num-
ber four hundred and one, of grand international brotherhood of loco-
motive engineers, and by that name shall have perpetual succession and
a common seal; may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued;
Inay acquire, receive, hold, possess and enjoy, and may rent, mortgage,
exchange, sell, convey and otherwise manage or dispose of all lands,
money or other property, real or personal, which may hereafter be given
or otherwise acquired by them for the use of the Joseph H. Sands divi-
sion, number four hundred and one, of grand international brotherhood
of locomotive engineers. And the said trustees shall hold their office as
trustees only so long as they shall remain members of said division of
the grand international brotherhood of locomotive engineers: provided,
the amount of land acquired and held by them shall not exceed one
acre in the city of Roanoke, Virginia, and the amount of money
acquired and held by them shall not exceed twenty thousand dollars.

2. The trustees herein named shall continue to act as such until
their successors are duly elected and enter upon the discharge of their
duties as trustees.

3. The trustees, three in number, shall be elected according to the
rules and laws of the aforesaid Joseph H. Sands division, number four
hundred and one, grand international brotherhood of locomotive en-
siicers, and shall have power to appoint such officers as may be requi-
site, and may exact from any of them such bonds or other security, in
such penalty as the trustees shall direct, conditioned for the faithful
performance of their duties; and the bonds so exacted of such officers
of the trustees, and the bonds of the secretary and treasurer of said
Joseph H. Sands division, number four hundred and one, grand inter-
national brotherhood of locomative et iwineers, and other ofticers thereof

of whom bonds may be required, may be made payable to said
trustees.

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4. Two trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business, but it shall require all three trustees to make a sale of any
real estate.

5. Whenever said Joseph H. Sands division, number four hundred
and one, grand international brotherhood of locomotive engineers,
shall surrender its charter to the grand lodue of grand international
brotherhood of locomotive engineers, or for any other cause shall cease
to exist, the said trustees shall have authority to sell and convey the
lands and other property held by them for the use of said division of
grand international brotherhood of locomotive engineers and distribute
the money arising from such sale, and any other money or property
belonging to said division of evrand international brotherhood of loco-
motive engineers in the hands of said trustees ratably among the mem-
bers in good standing at the time of such surrender of said charter or
existence of said division.

All taxes due to the commonwealth shall be paid in currency and not
in coupons.

6. This act shall be in force from its passuge.