Chap. 1109.—An ACT to enlarge the powers of the Charlotte Williams hospital.

Approved March 7, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Robert
S. Bosher, E. T. D. Mevers, Doctor George Ben Johnston, John TL. Wil-
(ns John Skelton Williams, William R. Trige, Frederick E. Nolting,

W. ‘Tanner, E. L. Bemiss, Doctor Christopher Tompkins, Doctor
lewis C. Bosher, Doctor Ennion G. Williams, Doctor TH. Hl. Levy, Wil-
ham H. Palmer, W. M. Habliston, and their associates and successors,
as they have been and may be from time to time appointed as herein-
after provided, be, and thev are hereby, recognized and declared a body
politie and corporate, under the name and style of the “Charlotte
Williams hospital,” duly and properly organized for the purposes of
establishing and maintaining a hospital or hospitals and institutions in
connection therewith for the purpose of affording surgical and medical
aid to sick and disabled persons, and the instruction and training of
persons in the art of nursing and attending upon the sick, as provided
by an order of the cirewit court of the city of Richmond, entered the
twelfth day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and that
the powers and duties thereof are altered, enlarged, and declared to be
as follows

2. The management of the corporation shall be vested in a board of
trustees, consisting of the above-named parties, their successors and
associates, as they may be hereafter appointed. ‘The trustees may in-
crease their number to a number not exceeding twenty-five, and they
shall fill all vacancies in said board as may be preseribed in its by-laws.

3. The board of trustees shall have power to elect from their number
a oresident, who shall hold his office at their pleasure, and they may also
elect and appoint, and at any time remove, such other oflicers as may
be necessary or expedient in their Judgement, and shall have power and
authority to appoint an executive committee and such other cominittees
as they may deem necessary or expedient for the management of the
interests of the corporation.

Said board of trustees shall have power to make such regulations and
by-laws for the government of the corporation as are not inconsistent
with the laws of this state or of the United States.

4. Said corporation shall have full power and authority to acquire,
receive, hold, possess, and enjoy by purchase, gift, grant, bequest, or
devise, Or In any manner whatsoever, personal and real estate, and may
sell, convey, mortgage, pledge, invest, or otherwise dispose of other
property, real or personal, which may be given to, or otherwise aequired
bv, said corporation. .

5. Said corporation shall have authority to acquire by purchase or

otherwise, and to hold stocks and securities in other corporations,
whether organized under the laws of this state, or other states or coun-
tries.

. Inasmuch as the objects of this corporation are purely benevolent,
all ‘property, real and personal, of the said corporation shall be exempt
from taxation, both city and state, and shall be entitled to the benefit
of the provisions of law relating to charitable institutions.

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