An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1897/1898 |
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Law Number | 445 |
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Chap. 445.—An ACT to incorporate the American annuity order.
Approved February 25, 1898.
1. Be it Enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That George L.
stone, C. 8. Campbell, R. W. Courtney, George A. Lathrop and Edgar
Allen, junior, of the city of Richmond, and their associ lates, successors
and assigns, be, and are hereby, constituted a body corporate and poli-
tic by the name of the American annuity order, and by that name shall
be known in law, and shall have perpetual succession; and shall have
power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts; and
may make and have a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure; and
shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges per-
taining to corporate bodies and necessary for the purposes hereinafter
set forth; and may make a constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations,
consistent with the existing laws of the state, for the gov ernment of all
under its authority, for the management of its estates and properties,
and for the due and orderly conduct of its affairs, the general object of
said order 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 sixty-five years.
Second. To give all material aid in its power to its members and
those dependent on them.
Third. To establish funds for the relief of sick and distressed mem-
bers.
Fourth. To establish benefit funds, from which the members of said
order who shall have complied with all the rules and regulations may
receive, at the end of a certain period, a sum not exceeding ten thou-
sand dollars, which may be payable in a lump sum or in weekly,
monthly or annual instalments, or from which, on the satisfactory evi-
dence of the death of a member who shall have so complied with such
rules and regulations, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, which
may be payable in like manner, shall be paid to the family of such
member as he may direct, or, in case of his failure to direct, to his lezal
representative:
2. The said order may acquire and own real estate not to exceed five
acres, and its principal office shall be in the city of Richmond.
3. All taxes and debts due the state shall be paid in money and not
in coupons.
4. This act shall be in force from its passage.