Chap. 512.—An ACT to incorporate the John Marshall memorial association.

Approved February 24, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the genera] assembly of Virginia, That Melville
W. Fuller, John M. Harlan, and Henry Billings Brown, Washington,
District of Columbia; Hilary A. Herbert, Huntsville, Alabama; U. M.
Rose, Little Rock, Arkansas; David I. Withington, San Diego, California;
Lyman D. Brewster, Danbury, Connecticut; George Gray, Wilmington,
Delaware; Thomas Nelson Page, Washington, District of Columbia;
Walter B. Hill, Macon, Georgia; Azel F. “Hatch, Thomas J. Holmes,
John C. Black, ‘and Adolph Moses, Chicago, Illinois; Woodrow Wilson,
Princeton, New Jersev; Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana; Emlin
McClain, Iowa City, lowa: W. O. Harris and Alexander Pope Humphrey,
Louisville, Kentucky; William Wirt Howe, New Orleans, Louisiana;
Charles F. Libby, Portland, Maine; Charles Marshall and Skipwith
Wilmer, Baltimore, Maryland; M. F. Dickenson, junior, Leonard A.
Jones, and Moorfield Storey, Boston, and George F. Hoar, Worcester,
Massachusetts; William L. January, Detroit, Michigan; George P. Wanty
Grand Rapids, Michigan; H. T. Kent and Henry Hitchcock, Saint Louis
Missouri; Charles F. Manderson, Omaha, Nebraska; R. Wayne Parker
Newark, New Jersey; James C. Carter, Walter S. Logan, and John S
Wise, New York, New York; Edward Colston, Cincinnati, Ohio; James H
Hoyt, Cleveland, Ohio; George Tucker Bisham, John C. Bullitt, anc
Francis Rawle, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Simon P. Wolverton, Sun.
bury, Pennsylvania; Amasa M. Eaton, Providence, Rhode Island; Augus.
tine T. Smythe, Charleston, South Carolina; Ed. Baxter, Nashville
Tennessee; Edward J. Phelps, Burlington, Vermont: James M. Ambler
Parkersburg, West Virginia; R. M. Bashford and Charles Noble Gregory
Madison, Wisconsin, and the following from the state of Virginia—
namely: William M. Lyle, D. G. Tyler, William I. Clopton, Eppa Hun:
ton, junior, E. W. Saunders, William A. Anderson, H. Saint Georg:
Tucker, John H. Fulton, Rufus A. Ayers, J. K. M. Norton, Micajal
Woods, Harrison Robertson, James P. Harrison, A. J. Montague, Charle:
M. Blackford, John W. Daniel, Randolph Harrison, T. S. Garnett, W
W. Old, Alexander Hamilton, R. C. Marshall, James Lewis Anderson
Henry T. Wickham, William B. McIlwaine, Joseph Bryan, John A. Coke
Jackson Guy, William Wirt Henry, James Keith, James C. Lamb, Willian
J. Leake, Lunsford L. Lewis, Eugene C. Massie, Wyndham R. Meredith
Beverly B. Munford, Rosewell Page, 8S. S. P. Patteson, David C. Richard
son, William L. Royall, William Gordon Robertson, Alexander F. Robert
son, and Robert T. Barton, and their successors, be, and they are hereby
incorporated as a hody politic and corporate, under and by the nam
and style of the John Marshall memorial association, and by that nam
shall have perpetual succession, a common seal, which it may chang
at pleasure, contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, may tak
and hold real estate and personal property by purchase, gift, devise, o:
otherwise, and may sell, convey, invest, and otherwise manage or dispos
of any or all property, real and personal, which it may have acquired i1
carrving out the objects of this act. The corporation is not to hav
any capital stock or to declare any dividends, as the same is not intendec
for pecuniary gain or benefit. The incorporators of this association bein;
citizens from all sections of the union, who have joined in the grea
work which is the object of this charter, from motives of public spirit
it is expressly declared that the acceptance of the same by them an
their associates and successors in office shall in no wise render them pet
sonally liable by reason of their being incorporators or members of thi
association. The chief office or place of business of this corporation
and the place of holding its meetings, shall be at Richmond, Virginia.
2. That the object of this association is to procure by purchase th
residence of Chief Justice John Marshall in the city of Richmond, an
to preserve the same as nearly as can be in its original form as left b
him, and to collect therein such furniture, portraits, books, manuscript:
and other relics as were possessed by him or connected with his career
the same to be held and kept by the association as a perpetual memoria
of Chief Justice John Marshall, and to be open, without charge, to visit
that may be paid to it by any member of the bench or bar in the Unite
States. The said association shall also be charged with the duty of earin:
for and protecting the section in Shockoe Hill cemetery, Richmond
Virginia, containing the graves of Chief Justice Marshall and his wife.
and of preserving the same from ruin or decay. And for such purpos
the said association shall have authority to solicit and receive from indi-
viduals, corporations, and bar associations throughout the union sucl:
donations and gifts as may be made, and such devises and bequests a:
may be left to it, whether in money, books, papers, portraits, or other
property. And the association being entirely dependent for the resource:
with which to carry out its objects upon the liberality of admirers of the
high character of the chief justice, and of the great services rendered
by him to his country, it is provided that the names of all persons con-
tributing shall be transcribed upon a record book, and that the same
shall be safely kept among the archives of the home.

3. The property and affairs of the association shall be managed and
controlled by the incorporators hereinbefore mentioned, and by reason
of the residence of many of such incorporators being remote from the
place of meeting as herein designated, and the inconvenience of attend-
ance upon meetings from that cause, such management and control shall
be vested by those in attendance at the first called meeting under this
charter in twenty-five of such incorporators, to be known as the board of
governors, of which the chief justice of the United States ex officio shall
be a member, nine shall be from the membership of the American bar
association and from the associate justices of the supreme court of the
United States, to be non-residents of the state of Virginia, and the
remaining fifteen to be residents of the state of Virginia, of whom eight
shall be from the membership at large of the Virginia state bar associa-
tion, not residents of the city of Richmond, and seven from the bar
association of the city of Richmond. Any vacancy from death, refusal
to act, or otherwise, occurring in the board of governors shall be filled by
the three bar associations aforesaid from among their respective mem-
berships, taking care always to preserve the apportionment between them
above provided, except that the selection by the American bar associa-
tion may be, as above provided, from the associate justices of the supreme
court of the United States, who are non-residents of the state of Virginia,
and in the event of the failure of such bar associations, or any of them,
to fill such vacancy, the surviving members of the board may fill the
vacancy, and in so doing they shall carry out the apportionment above
provided as nearly as it is possible to do so. The board of governors
may appoint from their number an executive committee of seven, to
whom, subject to the control of the board, it shall be lawful to delegate
the practical management of the affairs of the association.

4. That all the property of this association, whether real, personal,
or mixed, shall be held in trust strictly for the objects hereinbefore se

forth.
5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.