CHAPTER CXLII.

AN ACT to provide for the organization of corporations.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That charters may be granted to any association of individuals for the following pur

poses:

1st. The support of public worship, the building of original Act. churches and chapels, and the maintenance of all mis- Religion. sionary undertakings.

1895.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Section 1973, Subsection 1, Amendment, of Milliken & Vertrees' Compilation of the Laws of Ch, 32, Acts Tennessee, being Chapter 142 of the Acts of 1875, of the General Assembly of Tennessee, be amended so as to provide that the following shall be the form for charter of executive committees, boards, or trustees of religious foreign missionary societies, to-wit:

Be it known, that__.

____and their successors,

chosen under the usages and regulations of the_.

charter.

____church, by which they are appointed, and holding Form of office at the pleasure of said church, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the executive committee, or board of trustees of foreign missions of_____ church, for the purpose of the maintenance of all missionary undertakings by the said church, among nations and countries foreign to the United States of America; and to that end employ missionaries, male and female, in the United States of America and elsewhere, and natives of foreign nations and countries; which missionaries are to engage in religious and educational work in nations and countries foreign to the United States of America, for the purpose of disseminating the religion of the said church; to establish, maintain and conduct churches and schools of learning; to establish, maintain and conduct hospitals for the care of the sick; to purchase, own or lease land upon which to build such churches, school buildings, hospitals, residences, and all other structures necessary thereto; to lease, build or own, manage and run boats or other vehicles for transporting passengers and freight, propelled by steam or otherwise, for the use of missionaries, in nations and countries foreign to the United States of America; to lease or purchase, establish, maintain and conduct schools

General powers.

of learning for the education and missionary training, either or both, for children of deceased or living missionaries in the United States of America; to borrow money when necessary for the carrying on of the business of the corporation, under such rules and restrictions as may be prescribed by the said executive committee or board of trustees; to sell and make title to any real estate owned by the corporation, or heretofore under the management of said executive committee or board of trustees and its predecessors, which may not be needed or desired for corporate purposes; to sell any personal property owned by said corporation or heretofore owned by said executive committee, board or trustees; to employ all necessary agents and canvassers; to solicit, collect and receive subscriptions in money or otherwise, legacies and devises, to be used in aid in forwarding any and all of the purposes and causes above set out, or herein provided for; to have printed, or print, edit, conduct and carry on for missionary uses and purposes, a magazine or magazines, paper or papers; to rent or purchase a room or rooms, or building, for the office of the corporation, and all necessary appliances, furniture and material for conducting the business of the corporation; to purchase or rent all necessary printing presses, type, material and stationery to be used in the United States of America, or in nations and countries foreign to the United States of America, for the purpose of printing and disseminating all literature deemed necessary for the purpose of carrying on the work of the corporation. But in all the transactions of the said corporation it is to be governed by the rules and regulations of said__ _church,

so far as the same are consistent with the constitution of the State and the laws of the land.

The general powers of said corporation shall be: To sue and be sued by the corporate name; to have and use a common seal, which it may alter at pleasure; if no common seal, then the signature of the name of the corporation by any duly authorized officer shall be legal and binding; to purchase and hold, or receive by gift, devise or bequest, in addition to the personal property owned by the corporation, real estate necessary for the transaction of the corporate business; and also to purchase and accept any real estate in payment or part payment of any debt due to the corporation, and to sell the same; to establish by-laws and make all rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of the State and of the United States of America, and not contrary to the constitution and rules and regulations of the said ----church, deemed expedient for the man

agement of the corporate affairs; and to appoint such
subordinate officers, in addition to a chairman and treas-
urer, not chosen by the governing body of said.......
church, as the business of the corporation may require,
and as are not forbidden by the rules and regulations of
the said____ ---church, and to designate the officer

and fix the compensation of the officer.

apply.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the charter above provided for shall be procured, registered and governed General laws by the general laws of the State regulating the procurement of charters, and that the minimum number of incorporators as above provided for shall be five.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Paragraph 1, of Section 1, Amendment, of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the organization Ch. 385, Acts of corporations," passed March 19, 1875, approved March

23, 1875, and being Chapter 142, of Acts of 1875, be so amended as to read as follows:

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The support of public worship, the building and maintenance of churches, parsonages, schools, hospitals, chapels, and such other religious, educational, or benevolent institutions as may be necessary or proper to the work of missionary bodies in the United States, or in any foreign country, and the maintenance of all missionary undertakings."

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That any religious association heretofore incorporated under said Section 1, of Chapter 142, of the Acts of 1875, and now in existence, shall have and enjoy the power to do and enjoy all those things enumerated in said paragraph, as amended, upon the acceptance of said amendments by proper resolution.

1905.

2d. The support of any benevolent or charitable undertaking, as a lodge of Masons, Odd Fellows, hospitals Original Act. for the sick, houses of refuge or correction, orphan asy- Charity. lums, and all other objects of like nature.

Ch. 55, Acts

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That Subsection 2, Section 1, Amendment, Chapter 142, of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for 1881. the organization of corporations," passed March 19, 1875, be so amended as to provide for the incorporation of life insurance orders, and orders for the protection of property against any cause or causes of loss or damage, in all cases where such orders are based upon the principal of the mutual assessment of their members, and when the general good and not individual profit is the object of their organization.

Ch. 160, Acts

1915.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Amendment, of the State of Tennessee, That any corporation not for profit, already chartered or hereafter chartered under the provisions of Section 1, Subsection 2 of Chapter 142 of the Acts of 1875, being for the support of any benevolent or charitable undertaking, may increase its Directors to a number not more than one hundred, by due and proper amendment to its by-laws.

Ch. 39, Acts

1917.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Amendment, the State of Tennessee, That corporations, chartered and organized under Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 142 of the Acts of 1875, entitled as set out in the caption hereof, are hereby authorized and empowered to combine into associations or federations with each other upon such terms as may be provided by their by-laws, and the associations or federations referred to in the caption of the Act may also be brought about by individual corporations organized under said Act of 1875 for the general welfare taking membership in a like corporation, upon such terms as may be provided by the by-laws of the 'association or federation" and the constitutional corporation.

Literature,

history,

painting,

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SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That Sections 1 and 2 of said Act of 1875, Chapter 142, entitled as set out in the caption hereof, be and the same are hereby amended so as to confer upon and vest in corporations organized under said section for the general welfare of society, and not for profit the power and authority provided in the first section of the Act.

3d. The support of any literary or scientific underOriginal Act. taking, as a college or university, with powers to confer degrees, an academy, a debating society, lyceum, the establishment of a library, the support of a historical society, the promotion of painting, music, or the fine arts, the support of boards of trade, or chambers of commerce, or other objects of like nature.

music,

fine arts, trade.

Ch. 11, Acts

1895.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Amendment, the State of Tennessee, That Paragraph 3, Section 1, Chapter 142, of the Acts of 1875, be and the same is hereby amended by inserting after the words "historical society" the following: the organization and support of battlefield associations.