Chap. 106.—An ACT to incorporate the Hermitage golf club.

Approved February 13, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the gener mu assembly of Virginia, That T. MM.
itherfoord, W. R. Massie. H. $. Jones, Ww. IT. Parrish, BE. 'T. D. Myers,
nior, Levin Joynes, H. K. Ellyson, R. F. Williams, W. B. Williams,
~B. Mill, kb. TL. Bemiss, George A. Gilson, Murray M. McGuire, B. B.
alentine, and such other persons as are now associated as the Hermitage
If club, or such of them as shall accept the provisions of this act, and
ch other persons as may hereafter be assoc ated with them, their sue-
ssofs and assigns be, and they are, hereby declared to be a body cor-
rate, under the name and style of the Hermitage golf club, and as
ch shall have and exercise all the powers and functions of a corporation
der this charter and the Jaws of the commonwealth.

. The said corporation is formed with the object, and shall have the
wer, to promote the interests of golf and other open-air and athletic
orts and social recreation among its members, and for such purposes
ay acquire and own, hold and possess all kinds of apparatus and prop-
ty, real and personal, necessary for the carrving ont of the objects
its incorporation; to enter into and make any contract or perform any
+ necessary and proper for its benefit and welfare.

3 The Hermitage golf club shall have all the rights of a corporation
‘ovided by the laws of the commonwealth to make and adopt a consti-
tion and by-laws, rules and regulations for its government, and, in
idition to the general right to make and adopt a constitution and by-
ws, shall have the power and authority, and the same are hereby given
, to make rules for the expulsion of members: and no member expelled
|} accordance with the same shall thereafter have or claim any right or
interest in the property of said club. Nor shall any member resigning
have, after the acceptance of his resignation, any right or interest in the
Property of the club.

The present officers, constitution, and by-laws of the Hermitage
soit club shall continue until other oflicers are elected or said constitu-
tion and by-laws are changed by the club.

5. The objects of said corporation being those of a purely social or-
ganization, there shall be no capital stock of said corporation and no
stockholders; but all property and rights now belonging to the unincor-
porated Hermitage golf club shall be, and by this act are, vested in the
corporation hereby created, and this property and these rights, and any
other property and rights that may hereafter be acquired by said cor-
poration shall belong to the Hermitage golf club, according to the laws
governing social corporations. And all lawful acts and contracts here-
tofore made by or with said Hermitage golf club are declared to be valid
and binding, as to the corporation hereby created.

6. The real estate held by said corporation shall not exceed five hun-
dred acres at any one time.

Said corporation may borrow money, and may issue bonds or notes
therefor, and may secure the same by deed of trust or otherwise.

v. A majority of the persons whose names are mentioned as incorpo-
rators in the first section of this act, or those of them who shall accept
the provisions of this charter, may, at any time and place, after giving
five days’ notice to all the incorporators mentioned by name, and to
such other persons now members of the unincorporated Hermitage golf
club as they may select, have full power and authority to hold a meeting
of said corporation, and to organize the same and to transact any busi-
ness that may come before said meeting.

A general meeting of said cor poration may be called at any time by
giving five days’ notice of the same.

8. The principal office of said corporation shall be in the county of
Henrico, Virginia.

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