Chap. 184.—An ACT to amend an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Alexan
dria Infirmary,” approved December 23, 1872.

Approved March 14, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That William N.
Berkley, Allen P. Harman, James Green, Charles P. Shaw, John B.
Daingerfield, William Arnold, Jefferson Tacey, William @. Chapman,
Reuben Johnston, Hiram O. Claughton, William J. Boothe, F. L. Smith,
senior, Rector Smoot, Charles R. Hooff, C. C. Bradley, John Perry, Enoch
M. Lowe, Hugh Latham, George H. Robinson, John T. Creighton, John
P. Agnew, Andrew Jamison, Lewis McKensie, Samuel Miller, William
Logan, Arthur Herbert, George R. Hill, and David G. Wilkins be, and
they are hereby, constituted a body politic and corporate by the name and
style of “The Alexandria Hospital,” in the city of Alexandria, and by
that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, may sue and
be sued, plead and be impleaded, with power to purchase, reccive, and to
hold to them and their successors forever any lands, tenements, rents,
issues, and profits, interest, annuities, goods, chattels, of whatever kind
whatsoever, and donations in money, legacies, and devises of real estate
which may be purchased by, devised, given to, or acquired for the use of
the said hospital; and that all grants, gifts, donations, devises, and be-
quests of property, real, personal, or mixed, made to “The Alexandria
Infirmary” shall pass to and vest in “The Alexandria Hospital” for the
uses and purposes in this act set forth: provided, however, that the lands,
tenements, rents, issucs, and profits, interest, annuities, goods, and chat-
tels, of what kind soever, and donations in money, legacies, and devises of
real estate so authorized to be taken and held shall not exceed in amount
or value the sum of twd hundred thousand dollars: and provided, further,
that not less than a majority of the acting trustees for the time being
shall have the power to authorize the sale or mortgage of any real estate
belonging to the said hospital.

2. The said trustees and their successors, or a majority of those acting,
shall have power to appoint a president of the board, a treasurer, and
board of managers, and such other officers as they may deem necessary,
and to make and establish, from time to time, such by-laws, rules, and
regulations, not contrary to the constitution and laws of this State or of
the United States, as they may judge necessary for the good government
of the said hospital. A majority of the acting trustees shall constitute a
board for the transaction of business, and vacancy or vacancies among
the trustees occasioned by death, resignation, or legal disability shall,
from time to time, be supplied by the city council of Alexandria.

3. The treasurer shall receive all money accruing to the hospital and
property delivered to his care, and shall pay or deliver the same to the
order of the board. Before he enters upon the discharge of his duty he
shall enter into bond, with such security and in such penalty as the board
may direct, made payable to “The Alexandria Hospital,” and condi-
tioned for the faithful performance of his duty, under such rules and
regulations as may be adopted by the board ; and it shall be lawful for the
trustees to obtain a judgment for the amount thereof, or for any special
delinquency incurred by said treasurer, on motion in any court of record
in this Commonwealth against the said treasurer and his securities, his
or their executors or administrators, upon giving ten days’ previous notice
of such motion.

4. The legislature reserves the right to modify or repeal this charter.

5. This act shall be in force from the passage thereof.