Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-09-13
Approved June 90, 1860.
AN ACT to Incorporate the National Gallery and
School of Arts in the District of Columbia

AN ACT to Incorporate the National Gallery and
School of Arts in the District of Columbia.
BE il enacted By he SENATE and House of Repre-
septatoes Of The United States Of America in Com
gress assembled, That there may be established in
the District of Columbia by the persons herein
after named a gallery and school of arts, for the
purpose of promoting the Improvement of the fine
arts and their application to patriotic purposes, by
means of exhibitions, libraries, museum, instruc-
ton, and any other practicable operations.
SEQ. 2, .iHd be " fHrtteJ endcted, That the said
institution shall be under the management, direc-
ton, and government of n number of trustees, not
exceeding twenty five, to be elected annually by
the contributors TO the said gallery and school, in
such manner and under such limitations and re-
strctions as may he provided in the bylaws there
of; and the first trustees of the said institution
shall consist of the following persons, namely
Horatio Stone John Cranch, J. NJ. Stauly, J. G..
Bruff, Robert Boyle, w. w. Corcoran, A. f. Gun.
ningham, II. G. Clemson, J, g. Bcrret, +. =.
Stanton A. Thomas Smith, ii, G.. FAINT, Charles
Fam 5, b. Ogle Taylor, George w. Riggs, Char.
les Haskins, Sclh Eastman, Samuel +. Ninton,
and l.. D. Gale, which said trusrees and their
successors shall be a body polite and corporate,
with perpetual succession, by the name and style
of "1he National Gallery and School of Arts;''
by which name and title the said trustees and their
successocs shall he competent and capable, in law
and equity, to take to themselves and their sue
cessors for the of the said institution, any es-
tate in any lands, tenements, hereditaments,
goods, chattels, moneys, and other effects, by gift
grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, WILL
devise, or bequest OF any person or persons what
soever: Propded, The same do not exceed, in
the whole, the yearly value OF fifty thousand dollars
aud the same property and effects, real and per-
sonal to grant, bargain. sell, convey, assure, de
misc and TO farm let, and to place out on interest
for the use of the said institution; and by the
same name to sue and be sued, to plead aud be
inpleadcd, in any courts of law and equity; and
to make aud use common seal, and the same to
break and alter at their pleasure; and generally,
by and in the same name, to do and transact all
and every the business touching or concerning the
premises.
SEC, ?. And be n further enacted, That the trus-
tees aforesaid shall hold their offices until the
first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty,
and until their successors shall be elected And
in the mean time, the said trustees shall pass all
necessary ordinances and by laws for the complete
organization, government, and administration OF
the institution herein established. They may
appoint OF elect president and secretary of their
own body, and all such officers, professors, or
teachers, rs TO them may seem expedient, and
may confer upon them such powers, not inconsist-
ent with the Constitution and laws of the United
States, as may 20 them seem suitable to the end
in view. They shall provide for the election of
their successors on the first day of October, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty, and annually thereafter;
but, if from any cause, such election should take
place at the times herein provided, they may be
appointed for any other convenient time. And the
said trustees for the first election, and their sue
cessors ever thereafter shall determine and estab
lish the rules and conditions upon which subscribers
and contributors to the said gallery and school
shall be admitted rs members OF the said institu