Chap. 830.—An ACT to incorporate the Stonewall Jackson memorial
association.

’ Approved March 6, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Charles
Marshall, Richard M. Venable, A. W. Hawks, Skipwith Wilmer, and
H. K. Douglass, of Maryland; William A. McCorkle, Charles J. Faulk-
ner, A. C. Hopkins, W. W. Gallagher, Robert White, and John Mitchell,
of West Virginia; Joseph G. Morrison, of North Carolina; Yates Snow-
den and Robert Adger Smythe, of South Carolina; Charles S. Arnall
and L. T. D. Quinby, of Georgia; Francis T. Nichols, of Louisiana;
John H. Leathers, of Kentucky; Leigh Robinson and Robert Hunter,
of the District of Columbia; and the following persons from the state
of Virginia—namely: Hunter McGuire, Stuart McGuire, James P.
Smith, H. Lacey Smith, Robert Gibson, W. E. Cutshaw, E. D. Hotch-
kiss, H. T. Wickham, Joseph Bryan, KE. P. Cox, E. Leslie Spence, junior,
John A. Lamb, W. T. Poague, David Moore, Greenlee D. Letcher, John
Preston Allen, Edward Echols, James Bumgardner, junior, John N.
Opie, Lyman Chalkley, Baldwin Ranson, Hampton Wayt, William A.
Pratt, H. J. Williams, Samuel Harper, John D. Lilly, George G. Grattan,
George N. Conrad, Samuel J. C. Moore, R. 8. Blackburn Smith, Hunter
McGuire, junior, Holmes Boyd, R. T. Barton, Philip Boyd, L. M. Black-
ford, Hugh McGuire, A. T. Embry, R. 8. Parks, C. E. Vawter, C. D.
Fishburne, John W. Fishburne, Carter Berkelev, J. C. Carpenter, R.
L. Parrish, junior, W. B. Pavne, William M. McAllister, J. T. Mc-
Allister, Frank Hopkins. Hugh C. Preston, James A. Walker, A. G.
Pendleton, Hugh Allen, James Mann, T. H. Edwards, W. H. Hurkamp.
John Harman, Eppa Hunton, junior, John W. Daniel, Norman V. Ran-
dolph, J. Taylor Ellyson, Charles U. Williams, J. Hoge Tyler, George
I.. Christian, Carlton McCarthy, Eugene C. Massie, and W. C. Preston
and those whom they may associate with them, and their successors,
be, and they are hereby, incorporated as a body politic and corporate,
under and by the name and style of the Stonewall Jackson memorial
association, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, a com-
mon seal, which it may change at pleasure, contract, and be contracted
with, sue and be sued, may take and hold real estate and personal
property by purchase, gift, devise, or otherwise, and may sell, convev.
invest and otherwise manage or dispose of any or all property. real and
personal, which it may have acquired in carrying out the objects of
this act. The corporation is not to have any eapital stock or to
declare any dividends, as the same is not intended for pecuniary gain
or benefit. The incorporators of this association being citizens from
different sections who have joined in the great work which is the object
of this charter, from motives of public spirit, it is expressly declared
that the acceptance of the same bv them and their associates and suc-
cessors in office, shall in no wise render them personallv liable by
reason of their being incorporators or members of this association. The
chief office or place of hnsinevs, and the place of holding its meetings,
shall be at Richmond, Virginia. ,
2. That the object of this association is to procure by purchase the
Chandler house, in Caroline county, Virginia, in which Stonewall Jack-
son died, together with the farm on which the said house is located, and
to preserve the said house, as nearly as can be, in its original form,
and to collect therein such furniture, portraits, books, manuscripts,
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 memorial
of General Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, and to be open without
charge, to visits that may be paid to it by any member of the associa-
tion.

And for such purposes the said association shall have authority
to solicit from individuals, corporations, and Confederate associations,
such donations and gifts as may be made, and such devises and bequests
as may be left to it, whether in money, books, papers, portraits, or other
property. And the association being entirely dependent for the re-
sources with which to carry out its object, upon the liberality of ad-
mirers of the high character of Genera] Stonewall Jackson, and of
the great services rendered by him to his country, it is provided that
the names of all persons contributing shall be transcribed upon a record
book, and that the same shall be safely kept among the archives of
the association.

3. By reason of the residence of many of such incorporators being
remote from the place of meeting, as herein designated, and the incon-
venience of attendance upon meetings, from that cause, and the need
of an immediate designation of an executive committee, it is provided
that Hunter McGuire, Stuart McGuire, James P. Smith, H. Lacy Smith,
A. T. Embrv, J. Taylor Ellvson, George L. Christian, E. D. Hotchkiss,
KE. P. Cox, E. Leslie Spence, junior, John A. Lamb, J. T. McAllister,
Edward Echols, EK. W. Cutshaw, and Baldwin Ranson, fifteen of the
incorporators, be, and they are hereby, appointed an executive com-
mittee with full power to manage and control the property and affairs
of the association, and generally to do any act which may be necessary
to further its objects, who shall hold office until March first, nineteen
hundred and one, or until their successors are appointed; any five of
said executive committee shall constitute a quorum to transact any and
all business of said executive committee: and it is further provided,
that such incorporators as are in attendance at the first meeting under
this charter or at any subsequent meeting shall have the powers to
prescribe such rules and regulations as mav be necessary to provide a
pérpetual executive committee, which shall have the same power as
the executive committee above named, and such additional powers as
the said incorporators mav delegate to them: and it is further pro-
vided, that the executive committee aforesaid shall have power to sell
and convey anv surplus propertv which mav be acquired by the asso-
ciation, and which is not needed for the purposes of the association.
and that the deed signed hv the president and secretary of the said
executive committee with the seal of the association attached thereto.
attested by secretarv of said executive committee, shall pass title to the
said property. And the said executive committee shall have full power
to determine how much land it is necessary to retain in connection with
said house, for the purposes of this association.
4. And it is further provided, that those in attendance at the first
meeting under this charter shall prescribe the rules and regulations
under which others may become members of this association.

5. That all of the property of this association, whether real, personal,
or mixed, shall be held in trust strictly for the purposes hereinbefore
set forth.

6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.