Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-03-30
IPuBLIc-No. 34.1

PUBLIc-No. "a
AN ACT to incorporate the Sisters of Mercy
in the District of Columbia.
lie Il enacted by the Senate and House Of Repye-
sentdtires Of the United States Of iner,ca IN to,e-
gress assembled. That Isabel Atkinson. Eliza.
beth Medcalf, Teresa Byrne. Ellen Matthews,
Mary Duly, Teresa Moran and Ellen Wynne
and their SUCCESSORS, hereafter to become Sis
tiers of Mercy, and to be appointed according
to the rules and regulations that have been or
may hereafter be established 10y their associ,-
ton, be, and they are hereby, made, declared.
and constituted, "a corporation or body polite,
in law and in fact, to have continuance forev-
er. by the name, style. and title of the isis
ters of Mercy in the District of Columbia"
Sec 2. Ind be AZ further enacted, That all
and singular the lands. houses. tenements,
rents, Iegacies, annuities. rights, property,
privileges. goods. and chattels, heretofore Civ
en-, granted, devised or bequeathed to the said
Sisters of Mercy, in the District of Columbia,
or to any individual of the said corporation, or
To any person or persons for the use OF said cor
poration, or that have been purchased for or
on account of the same be, and they are here
by vested in, and confirmed to, the said cor
poratlOn; ard that the said corporation may
purchase, take, receive hold and apply to the
uses and purposes of the same. according to
the rules. regulations, and by laws that they
may establish from time to time, for the man
agcment OF the concerns of the said society or
corporation. any lands, tenements rents, leg
ac;,s, annuities, rights, property and privile-
ges or any goods, chatiels or other effects Of
what kind or nature soever, which shall or
may have been or may hereafter be given.
granted sold, lequ6athed or devised unto the
said association or corporation, by any person
or persons, bodies polite or corporate, capable
of making such grant, sale, or bequest, and
that the said association or corporation Of the
Sisters of Mercy, in the District of Columbia,
may dispose of and convey the same as they
may deem proper: Fropided, That the said
association or corporation shall not, at any one
time, hold, use, possess. and enjoy, within th,
District of Columbia, either by legal seizure,
or trust, for its use and benefit, more than
three hundred and twenty acres of land, nor
shall the said association or corporation hold,
in its own right, or by any other person in
trust or for its benefit, real estate the annual
net income OF which, after discharging all its
expenses, debts and liabilities, shall exceed
the sum OF fifty thousand dollars.
Sec 3. And be a. further enacted That the
said corporation, by the name of the Sisters Of
Mercy, in the District of Columbia be, and
shall be hereafter, capable in law and in eani-
ty to sue and be sued, within the District Of
Columbia and elsewhere, IN as efectual man
ncr as other persons or corporations can sue or
be sued, and that the said corporation or u
majority OF the persons composing the same,
shall adopt and use common seal, and tho
same TO use. alter, or change at pleasure, and
from time to time make such bylaws, not in
consistent with the Constitution of the United
States OF any law Of Congress, as they may
deem expedient and proper for carrying into
effect the objects Of the said association or cor-