Chap. 529.—An ACT to incorporate the Petersburg society for the prevention
of cruelty to animals.

Approved February 26, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That J. M.
Mullen, James E. Cuthbert, R. T. Meade, William H. Cuthbert, W. W.
Gillette, Harrison Waite, T. S. Beckwith, E. R. Beckwith, and J. M.
Callender, medical doctor, all of the city of Petersburg, in the state of
Virginia, and such other persons as are now or may hereafter be asso-
ciated with them, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, con-
stituted a body corporate under the name and style of the “ Petersburg
society for the prevention of cruelty to animals,” and by that name shall
have perpetual succession and a common seal.

2. The object of the said corporation shall be the prevention of cruelty
to animals.

3. The said corporation may sue or be sued, contract and be contracted
with; may acquire by purchase, gift, devise, or bequest, property, real
or personal, and may lease, manage, control, exchange, mortgage, sell,
convey, or dispose of said property. The value of real property to be had
by said corporation at any one time shall not exceed the sum of three
thousand dollars, and the amount of personal property shall not exceed
five thousand dollars.

4. The officers of the said corporation shall consist of a president, two
vice-presidents, one secretary, one treasurer, who, together with the
counsel of said corporation, shall be ex officio members of the executive
committee, which committee shall consist of three members in addition
to the ex officio members aforesaid.

5. The foregoing officers shall be chosen from among the members
of the society in such manner as its by-laws may prescribe.

6. A library may be created for the use of the society.

7. The said society, for fixing the terms of admission of its members,
for the government of the same, for the election, changing, and altering
the officers above named, and for the general regulation and management
of its affairs, shall have power to form a code of by-laws not inconsistent
with the laws of the state of Virginia, or of the United States, which
code, when formed and adopted at a regular meeting, shall, until modi-
fied or rescinded, be equally binding as this act upon the society, its
oflicers, and members.
8. This act shall be in force from its passage.