Chap. 410.—An ACT to incorporate the Church Erection and Missionary Board of
the German Baptist Brethren Church for the Second District of Virginia, and
to authorize and empower said corporation to use its funds to assist congrega-
tions financially unable to erect church buildings and support a minister by
grants or donations to them of its funds.

Approved March 29, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That George
Miller, J. Carson Miller, D. H. Zigler, A. B. Glick, and J. M. Kagey, and
such other persons as may be associated with them, and their successors,
be, and they are hereby, constituted a body politic and corporate under
the name and style of “The Church Erection and Missionary Board of
the German Baptist Brethren Church for the Second District of Vir-
ginia,” and by that name have perpetual succession and common seal,
which they may use and amend at their pleasure, sue and be sued, con-
tract and be contracted with, purchase and hold and grant estates, real
and personal, and make by-laws and regulations consistent with the laws
of this State concerning all matters of organization and business, and
generally do every act and thing necessary and proper to carry out the
purposes of this act, and promote the objects of the corporation.

2. The said corporation ig authorized and empowered to receive, by
gift, grant, or devise, real and personal property to an amount not exceed-
ing in the aggregate at any one time fifty thousand dollars, to be used
solely and exclusively as auxiliary to, and for the purposes of assisting
needy congregations of, the German Baptist Brethren Church of the
Second District of Virginia in the erection, construction, repairing, im-
provement, and maintenance of churches and church buildings exclusively
used for benevolent, charitable, educational, and religious purposes; and
in assisting congregations of said church financially unable to support a
minister by gifts or donations to them of money or property of the cor-
poration for the support of ministers: provided, that said corporation
shall not be capable of holding at any one time real and personal estate
exceeding in the aggregate the sum of fifty thousand dollars.

3. The said incorporators, and those that may be hereafter associated
with them, shall have power to fill any vacancies that may occur in their
body: provided, always, that the membership thereof shall at no time be
less than five, after filling vacancies, and that they shall be citizens of the
State of Virginia.

4. The principal office of the said corporation shall be in the town of
Harrisonburg, Virginia, but said corporation may have power to change
the location of its principal office at any time by unanimous vote of the
members thereof: provided, that the same shall always be within the
State of Virginia. .

5. The moneys and funds that may be owned by the corporation, so
long as the same are devoted exclusively to benevolent, charitable, educa-
tional, and religious purposes, shall be exempt from taxation.

6. Organization under this charter shall take place within twelve
months from the passage of this act by an acceptance thereof by the incor-
porators and the adoption of by-laws.

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