Chap. 651.—An ACT to amend the charter of the Richmond eye, ear and throat
dispensary and infirmary.

Approved March 2, 1898.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the charter
rranted the Richmnand eve aenr and throat dienanearv and infirmary Ihe
the judge of the circuit court of the city of Richmond on the thirteenth
day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and amended by
said court in vacation on August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-
five, be so amended and altered as to provide that said corporation shall
have power and right to receive and take and to hold the same for the
uses and purposes designated by the donor or testator, if he shall so
designate, and for the general purposes of said dispensary and infirm-
ary, when the grant, bequest or devise is not so designated, whether the
same be given or willed directly to said corporation or be given to trus-
tees, with power to turn over the principal or interest to said corpora-
tion, every gift, grant, devise or bequest heretofore or hereafter made to
said corporation for charitable, educational or humanitarian purposes,
or for the general or special objects of said corporation, by whatsoever
name or description the said corporation is designated by the donor or
testator.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.