Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1864-08-25

said corporation shall possess and en-
Joy all the powers essential aud prop
or for the carrying out of the purpo.
scs of its creation.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That said corporation may receive,
take, and hold, by purchase, gift, or
devise, any real or personal estate,
for the purposes contemplated in this
act Prorided, h01ccrcr, That tho nett
annual income of their real estate shall
not exceed thirty thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,
That Mary T. Hay, Eliza M. Morris,
Eliza Wade Fitzgerald, Georgiana
Speaks, Emily B. Ruggles, Indiana
Plant, Jane i. James, Mary Grayham,
Maria Virginia Brown, shall consti-
tute the board of managers until the
first Monday of May, A. ID. eighteen
hundred and sixty-ivc, and until
their successors shall be chosen or
elected as herein provided. 4 meet
ing of the members of the association
shall be held on the first Monday of
May, eighteen hundred and sixty-five,
at some convenient hour and place,
in the city of Washington, Of which
two weeks public notice shall be Civ
en- by the board of managers, in two
daily newspapers published in the
city of Washington and at such
meeting the members of the associa-
ton who shall be present shall pro-
coed to elect board of managers
in the places of those hereby designa-
ted or authorized and any manager
may be reelected from time to time.
Each member, at such meeting, shall
| be entitled to one vote. An annual
meeting of the associates or corpora
tors shall, in like manner and upon
like notice, he held on the first Mon
day of May, in each year after eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-fivc, for the
election of managers for the ensuing
year; but if, in any case, the said
meeting shall, for any reason, fail to
be held on the day herein designated,
the same may, upon the notice above
provided, be held on any other day
within three months thereafter and
the managers then elected shall hold
their Offices until the first Monday of
May next ensuing, and until their sue
cessors shall be chosen, as aforesaid.
The said board of managers shall
have power to fill any vacancies &C.
curing therein between the regular
elections above provided in this act,
and majority of said board shall
form quorum for the transaction OF
business.
Sec. 4. And he it further enacted,
That the board Of managers shall
have power to appoint such agents,
matrons, assistants, and teachers, and
to employ such domestics and SER
wants, as shall be deemed necessary,
and to make all ncedful and proper
regulations for their respective, gen.
eral, or specific duties, as well as for
the government, direction, and control
of all persons who may at any time
become inmates of the Home" an-
thorized by this act, and may pre-
scribe for the children and youth COM
mittcd to their care such rules of dis
ciplinc as shall be deemed by them
necessary.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted,
That whenever any child who, from
the neglect or inability of its parents
or guardian to support it, shall be-
come a charge upon public charity,
and shall be surrendered to the charge
Of the association, pursuant to the
:. provisions Of this act, by such parent
or by its guardian, or by the overseer
or superintendent Of the poor of said
city Of Washington, or other officer
having the charge of the poor, or
whenever any destitute and depend
ent orphan shall be surrendered to
such institution, in the manner herein
provided, by an instrument in writing,
duly signed by such parent, guardian,
or public officer, the said board OF
managers may, in their discretion,
place such child to service with some
proper person under articles OF indent-
ure, to be executed in due form of law,
with such provisions for maintenance
and education as shall be approved by
one of the Judges of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia !;
and the said board of managers are
hereby authorized to permit the adop-
ton of any such child by any respecta-
bic and proper person who, under pro-
visions to be approved as aforesaid,
shall undertake the maintenance, care,
and proper education of such destitute
or orphan child.
Sec. 6. And he it further enacted,
That in case of the death or legal ca
pacity Of the father oi any dependent
child, or Of the Imprisonment of such
father for crime, or of his abandoning
or neglectng to provide for his fami-
ly, the mother, If residing in the Dis
trict of Columbia, shall be deemed the
legal guardian of her children for the
purposes Of this act, and shall have
power to make the surrender afore-
said. But in case the mother also be
dead, or q nonresident of said Dis
trict, or legally incapable of acting in
the premises, or be imprisoned for
crime, or neglect to provide for such
child, and in case there be no guardi-
an or other person legally bound to
support such child, or qualified to
make the surrender aforesaid, then,
and in any such case, the superintend-
ent of the poor, or the Mayor of Wash
ington, or other public officer having
charge of the poor, shall, for the pur-
poses of this act, be required, as ex-
oliicio guardian of such child, and
may make, as such, the surrender of
such child to the said corporation by
the instrument in writing aforesaid,
which surrender shall, in all respects.
be as valid and eifectual as if made
by the father or parent of such child :
I Prorided, That no surrender OF any
such child shall be made under the
provisions of this section, unless such
surrender shall, on examination, be
approved by one Of the Judges of the
: Supreme Court of said District.
]. Sec. l. And be it further enacted,
That tho hoard of yoanarars NAV