Chap. 105.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of chapter 4 of an act
entitled an act concerning corporations, which became a law on May 21,
1903. as amended und re-enacted by an act approved March 14, 1910, and
as further amended und re-enacted by an act approved February 9, 1912,
entitled an act to amend und re-enact section 4+ of chapter 4 of an act
concerning corporations. —_ {H B 26]

Approved March 6, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion four of chapter four of an act concerning corporations, which
h-came a law on May twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, as
amended by an act approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred
and ten, and as further amended and re-enacted by an act approved
lebruary ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows: )

Section 4. Any corporation incorporated under the provisions
of this chapter, and any corporation heretofore organized under any
charter heretofore granted by any court or by the general assembly,
and authorized to do any act, to conduct any business, or to carry
on any object or purpose, permitted under section one of this chap-
ter, may change its name, change the location of its principal office,
and make such other amendments, changes, or alterations of its
charter as may be desired, in the manner following: the board of
trustees, directors or managers shall pass a resolution declaring that
such amendment, change or alteration is advisable, and calling a
meeting of the members of the corporation to take action thereon,
the meeting to be held upon gotice by publication, at least six times
a week for two successive weeks prior to such meeting 1n some news-
paper published in the place wherein its principal office is located.
or having a general circulation therein, or upon ten days’ notice
given in person or by mailing it to all the members having voting
powers then of record. Ifa majority of the members of the said
corporation having voting powers shall vote in favor of such amend-
ment, change or alteration, a certificate thereof shall be made by the
president, or one of the vice-presidents, under the seal of the corpora-
tion, attested by the secretary and acknowledged by them before an
officer authorized by the laws of this State to take acknowledgments
of deeds or if it is a corporation composed of trustees, directors or
managers, who nominate and elect its trustees, directors or managers,
if a majority of these trustees, directors or managers, after a notice
to all of them in one of the ways hereinbefore set forth, shall vote
in favor of the amendment, change or alteration, a certificate thereof
shall be made by the president or one of the vice-presidents, under
the seal of the corporation, attested by the secretary, and acknowl-
edged by them before an officer authorized by the laws of this State
to take acknowledgments of deeds; or if it be a cemetery company,
created by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, or by order of
court, whose members are lot owners exclusively, if a majority of so
many of such lot owners as constitute a quorum for a business meet-
ing under the provisions of the charter of such cemetery company,
after notice to all of such lot owners, by publication as hereinbefore
set forth, shall vote in favor of such amendment, change, or altera-
tion, a certificate thereof shall be made by the president or one of the
vice-presidents, under the seal of the corporation, attested by the
secretary, and acknowledged by them before an officer authorized
by the laws of the State to take acknowledgments of deeds; and if
the amendment, change or alteration be one in respect to which the
payment of a fee to the State is imposed by law, a receipt for such
payment shall be presented to the State as a sinking fund for the
payment of the principal of such county or district road bonds, as
provided by law, provided such purchase is made at not less than
par and accrued interest.

3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.