Chap. 146.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 and 3 of an act e!
titled an act to incorporate the home for needy Confederate women, a)
proved March 3, 1898.

Approved February 14, 1901.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one and three of an act entitled an act to incorporate the home f«
needy Confederate women, approved March third, eighteen hundr«
and ninety-cight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That Mistre
B. F. Chesley, Mistress C. A. Stratton, Mistress M. A. Riddick, Mi
tress E. V. Johnson, Mistress M. A. Burgess, Mistress Ida Lyneh, Mi
tress M. B. Northern, and Miss Alice V. Loehr, their associates and
successors be, and they are, hereby created a body, politic and corporate.
by the name of the home for needy Confederate women, and in and
by that name the said corporation may contract and be contracted with.
sue and he sued, plead and be impleaded. It may also adopt a cor-
porate seal and alter or amend it at pleasure. It may also adopt all
such by-laws and regulations for its government and the conduct of its
affairs as it may deem requisite and as may not be inconsistent with
the law.

§ 3. The said corporation shall have power to acquire the title to
and hold Jand or other property for the purpose of establishing and
conducting the home aforesaid, and may sell or incumber the same;
and it shall have the right to receive donations either from states,
societies, corporations or individuals; and it shall also have the power
to administer the said home and funds donated to sustain and carry
on the same, cither through its officers and board of directors, consisting
only of women, or through such agency, consisting either of women
alone or of men and women, as in the judgment of the board of direc-
tors may be deemed most expedient.

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