1879 private laws – Ch.6 Sec.1

That Edmund Michal, Alex. McEntire, Cezar Craton, John Carrier, Lewis McDowell, John Morrow, Lynch Twitty, Alfred Bryan, Jenkins Duffy, Raleigh Mills, Toliver Twitty, Thomas Foster, John Elliott, Martin Miller, Edmund Michal, Jr., Bryan Hogue, Ebeneza Revis, Eliza Baber, Eliza Davis, Pauline McEntire, Mary A. Michal, Mary E. Michal, Jane Davis, Caroline Twitty, Clarisa Leventhorpe, Caroline McKinney, Ella Miller, Mary Twitty, Sarah Michal, Milly Craton, Martha McDowell, Augusta Bryan, Lisby Miller, Jane Miller, Eliza Carrier, Louisa Morrison, Rachel Washburn, Louisa Twitty, Lucy Miller, Charity Walton, Brinkly Miller, and their successors be and they are hereby declared to bea community, corporation and body politic by the name and style and title Paynes Benevolent Society, and by that name they and their successors shall and may at all times be capable in law to have, receive and retain to them and their successors property both real and personal, also devises and bequests of any person or persons, bodies corporate or politic, capable of making the same, and the same at their pleasure to transfer or dispose of in such manner as they may think proper.