Chap. 436.—An ACT to incorporate the union brothers, a colored organization,
with powers to care for its sick and to bury its dead.

Approved February 20, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Nathan
Johnson, J. D. Jackson, N. B. Hudson, Edward Scott, Robert Leftwitch,
Randolph Quarles, Douglas Smith, Spencer Taylor, "Louis Harris, Lill
Allen, and Alexander Jackson, all colored, and all of the county of “Alle-
ghany and state of Virginia, and their associates and successors, be, and
they are hereby, constituted and made a body corporate and politic, by
the name and style of the union brothers, for the purpose of caring for
the sick members of said organization and the sick of the families of such
members, and for the decent interment or burial of deceased members of
said organization and of the dead of any member of any family of any
such organization.

2. That the said organization shall have the power to assess its mem-
ber with such monthly, bimonthly, quarterly, biennial, or annual sums
as may be deemed necessary for the purposes aforesaid, such assessment
or assessments, however, to be made at a general meeting of the said
association as hereinafter provided.

3. That the annual meeting of said union brothers shall be held on
~ ‘Tuesday after the first Monday in March in each year, in the town
of Covington, in said county of Alleghany, or at such other time or place
as the members in general meeting may hereafter appoint, and in all
meetings of said corporation each person, who is hereby made a member
or who. may hereafter become a member, may cast one vote in person or
by proxy.

4. The board of directors of said union brothers shall consist of five
members, to be chosen from the charter members or from those who
may hereafter become members, and said board of directors shall choose
one of their number as president of said organization; but the members
shall have the power at any general meeting of said organization to in-
crease the number of directors.

5. Until the first meeting of said organization to be held on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday i in March, nineteen hundred, the said
Nathan Johnson, J. D. Jackson, N. B. Hudson, Edward Scott, and
Robert Leftwitch shall be the directors of said organization, with the
power to choose from their own number a president, and to discharge all
the duties of directors.

6. The principal office of said organization shall be at Covington,
Virginia, or at such other place in the state of Vi irginia as may be here-
after from time to time fixed by the members in general meeting assem-
bled.

?. The said board of directors shall have power to employ or appoint
a corresponding secretary, a treasurer, and a financial secretary, and to
prescribe the duties of each, and also to prescribe the conditions of mem-
bership and generally to adopt and change from time to time any and
all rules and regulations which may be, or become, necessary for the
purposes of the said organization.

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