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An Act to Incorporate the Nashville Colored Benevolent Society. 1865-1866 281 (1865.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0250 and id is 1 raw text is: 281 CHAPTER XCVI. AN ACT to Incorporate the Nashville Colored Benevolent Society. SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Daniel Brown, and his associates of the City of Nashville, constituting a Society for thebonev- olent purpose of receiving funds for the benefit of the sick and poor of their race, and dispensing the same for such purpose in the City of Nashville, are hereby incorporated under the name of the Nashville Colored Benevolent Society, with power to elect such officers and make such by-laws as are necessary and proper to effect the purpose above stated. WILLIAM HEISKELL, Speaker of the House Qf Representatives. JOSHUA B. FRIERSON, Speaker of the Senate. Passed May 22, 1866. CHAPTER XCVII. AN ACT to Incorporate the Tennessee Steam Tanning Association. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Ad M. Heflebower, Frank S. Sowers, C. S. Cowan, Thomas B. McElwee, their asso- ciates, successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby created and declared a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Tennessee Steam Tanning Association, and by said name and style shall have suc- cession for the full term of ninety-nine years; and shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, unite and prosecute to final judgemet in all courts of law and equity; to make and use a common seal, and change the same at will; with full Rights, &c. power to acquire property, real and personal; and to con- vey the same at will; and all other powers proper and necessary for them to have in conducting their business in its several parts. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the incorporators, or their legal representatives, shall have full power to fix

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