Chap. 30.—An ACT to provide for the appointment of trustees to hold gifts,
grants, or devises of real estate for charitable purposes to unincorporated
bodies or societies, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such trustees.

[H B 32]
Approved February 20, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That in
any case where, since the eighteenth day of June, nineteen hun-
dred and fourteen, there has been, or at any time hereafter there
may be, any gift, grant or devise of real estate for charitable pur-
poses to an unincorporated body or society, whether such gift,
grant or devise be directly to such body or society, or to it in trust
for charitable uses, trustees to hold the same may, if such unincor-
porated body or society so elects, be appointed in accordance with
the procedure prescribed by section thirty-nine of the Code ot

irginia, and such trustees shall hold the trust subject in accord-
ance with the provisions of sections forty-two, forty-four, forty-five
and forty-six of the Code of Virginia, in like manner as if said sec-
tions had been made expressly applicable to such unincorporated
body or society. For the purposes of this act the words church,
society, denomination, congregation, religious congregation, re-
ligious body, religious denomination and religious congregation or
organization, appearing in the aforesaid sections thirty-nine, forty-
two, forty-four, forty-five and forty-six, shall be interpreted to refer
to such unincorporated body or society.

ACT to amend and re-enact section 4447 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to the removal, etc., of goods distrained or levied on with intent,
etc, larceny. [H B 36]
Approved February 20, 1928

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section forty-four hundred and fortv-seven be amended and _ re-
enacted so as to read as tollows:

Section 4447. If any person fraudulently remove, destroy, re-
ceive or secrete any goods and chattels that have been distrained
or levied on, with intent to defeat such distress or levy, he shall be
deemed guilty of larceny thereof. And any person who under the
provisions of this act w ould be eiulty of grand larceny shall, in the
discretion of the jury, be confined in the penitentiary not less than
one year or more than ten years, or be confined in jail not exceeding
twelve months and fined not exe eeding five hundred dollars.