Chap. 300.—An ACT to incorporate the Executive Committee on Ministerial
Relief of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United

States.
Approved March 25, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Russell
Cecil, Jere Witherspoon, George R. Cannon, C. D. Larus, J. N. Culling-
worth, Robert P. Kerr, J. Calvin Stewart, John S. Munce, 8S. H. Hawes,
William R. Miller, and John A. Coke, constituting the present Executive
(‘ommittee on Ministerial Relief of the General Assembly of the Presby-
tcrian Church in the United States, appointed by the said general assem-
bly, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, created a body politic
and corporate by the name of the Executive Committee on Ministerial
Relief of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and by that
name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and it shall
1 held and deemed to be a branch of the corporation known as the
‘Vrustees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States, chartered by act of the legislature of the State of North
Carolina, ratified the nineteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and
sixty-six. The said executive committee may contract and be contracted
with, plead and be impleaded, and for the purpose of collecting and dis-
tributing a fund for the relief of the disabled and invalid ministers of
the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and for the relief of
widows and orphans of deceased ministers of said church, the said
executive committee shall have power to receive and hold such gifts,
legacies, and devises as may be made to it or to the Trustees of the
(:eneral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States for it
at any time or in any manner upon the same terms and limitations as
are now prescribed by law; and it shall also have power to use and dis-
pose of such gifts, legacies, and devises as it may deem best to carry
out the objects for which this corporation is formed. The said executive
committee shall also have power to solicit and collect all such contribu-
tions, either in money or other property, as may be made to it for the
foregoing purposes from time to time, and hold or dispose of said money
or other property for the purposes for which it is formed as it may deem
best; but the discretion herein vested in said executive committee in
respect to the management and disposition of all such gifts, legacies,
devises, and contributions shall be exercised in subordination to the super-
vision and control of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States.

2. The said executive committee shall serve until the next session of
the said general assembly, or until their successors are appointed by the
said general assembly, but in case vacancies occur, the executive com-
mittee shall have power to fill same, the person or persons so selected to
be chosen from the said Presbyterian Church in the United States, and
to hold office only until the next session of said general assembly, or until
their successors are elected. It shall also have power to appoint such
officers, agents, or attorneys as it may deem requisite to carry out the
objects for which it is incorporated, and fix their compensation; to
exact from any of them such bond or other security in such penalty as
the executive committee shall direct, conditioned for the faithful dis-
charge of their duties.

3. The said executive committee shall have power to make such by-laws
as it may deem necessary and proper for the transaction of its business,
and as are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United
States and of this State, subject, however, to the approval of the general
assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
4. Five members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any
business of the executive committee.

5. The act of the general assembly of Virginia, approved the twenty-
second day of January, nineteen hundred and two, entitled an act tc
incorporate the Board of Trustees of the Ministerial Relief Fund of the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States is
hereby repealed.

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