The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-11-08
TPUBLIC-No. 146. /
AN ACTlto incorporate s'The National Sol
diers,- and Sailors, Ornhan Hnme.N -

AN ACTto incorporate ''The National Sol
diers'~and Sailors Orphan Home"
BE 1t resolved By the Senate and House of Rep
reSentdti0eS otte United States Of Aneerica IN Con-
greSs assembled, That Mrs. Julia B. Grant, Mrs.
Ellen E. Sherman, Mrs. II. D. Cooks, Mrs
Margaret Fahnestock, Mrs. Kathleen Carlisle,
Miss Charlotte Taylor, Mrs. Jane Speed, Mrs.
Mary J. Wells, Mrs. A. G. Harlan, Mrs. Jane
Farnham, Mrs. Eliza M. Morris, Mrs. Cecilia
S. Sherman, Mrs Ellen Boyer, Mrs. Elizabeth
a. Howard, Mrs. Kate G. Sprauge, Mrs Elsie
b. Nye, Mrs. Annie Rouse, Mrs. Kate L. Plants,
Mrs. j. NJ. Trumbull, Mrs. Sarah Wood, Mrs.
Jane Anne Pirtle, Miss Elizabeth Howard,
and their successors, are constituted q body
corporate in the District of Columbia, by the
name of the National Soldiers and Sailors
Orphan Home, and by that name may sue
and be sued in any court of the United States.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
persons named in the first section of this act,
together with such as may be elected accord
ing to the form of the constitution under this
act, shall be the first trustees of the corpora
ton; and all vacancies caused by death, res
ignation, or otherwise, in the office of trustee
shall be filled by the board, by ballot, without
unnecessary delay,as may be provided in the
constitution and bylaws of the corporation
SEC. 3. And be IL fatYthe7. enacted, That said
corporation shall have power to provide a
home for, and to support and educate the des-
tltute orphans of soldiers or sailors who have
died in the late war in behalf of the Union of
these States, from whatever State or Territory
they may have entered the national service, or
their orphans may apply to enter the Home
and which is hereby declared to be the object
and purpose of said corporation, and to such
end, andfor such use, the said corporation
may take and hold property real or personal
to an amount necessary for the support and
maintenance of the Home and the orphans
partaking of its benefits.
SEC IL and be 1t further enacted, That the
affairs of this corporation shall be managed by
board of directors consisting of not less than
seventeen representing the district of Column
bia, and of seven each, from the respective
States and Territories, to be chosen in such
manner as the constitution and bylaws of
said corporation shall direct, and that the said
directors shall have power to make bylaws
prescribing the duties of the officers of said
corporation, their term of office, and to make
all other rules and regulations for said corpo-
ration, and the management ofits affairs subject
to the provisions of this act.
SEC. 5. Ind be 1t further enacted, That said
corporation shall have power to receive under
It's charge for support and education any mi
nor child of any such soldier or sailor, if so
placed in its charge by its surviving parent or
guardian, or, in the absence of either, by anv
person having the care or custody of such or
phan; and while such child remains under its
care and until withdrawn as hereinafter pro
vided, or discharged according to the regtIa-
tons of said corporation as any father or law
full guardian has by law over or relating to
such minor child.
Sc. 6. And be 1t further enacted That no
such orphan child shall ever be bound out bv
said corporation.
SEC. Z. And be 1t further enacted, That the
surviving parent or legal guardian of any child
placed under charge of said corporation NAV
at any time be by them withdrawn therefrom.
and any minor over sixteen years of age. upon
his Oh her own request in writing, shall be dis
charged th6refrom.
Sec 8. Ind be 1t further enacted. That, any
minor child so withdrawn or discharged as
provided in the preceding section of this act
shau nevertheless continue until majority I'M |
der charge of said corporation shall have the
control and management ofany moneys which
may be due to such minor from the govern
ment OF the United States by virtue of the
services Ofthe fathers of such minor children
paying to such minor child or children only
such amount thereof as in the Judgment of said |
corporation shall be necessary and beneficial
for such minor. -
Sec. 9. And be 1t further enacted. That the |
property ofsaid corporation, held or occupied |
by them Tor the uses and purposes of their in |
shall be exempt from ali taxes to |
be levied under the authority of the Congress |
OF the United States, or any municipal coYpo- |
ration Wltain the District ofColumbia, and no |
person -shaIllese or acquire a legal settlement |
by residence in the Home to be established nv
said corporation. rr1
Sec. 10. And be ii. further enacted, That Con |
gress may at any time hereafter repeal, alter, +
or amend this act. l /
Approved, July 25, 1865.
[PUBLIc-No. 1471 |,
An Act toamend can act to extend the char
ter of the Alexandria and Washington Rail
road passed March third, eighteen hundred Ii
and sixty-three. K
Be 1t enacted 6ythe Senate and House of Repye- Il
entatives oftte United States Of Anerica in CON
vress assembled, That the Washington, Alex /
lndria, and Georgetown Railroad Company, a Z
lawfully succeedingto the charter
lights, and privileges of the "Alexandria and 5
Railroad Company" be, and the c
anne is hereby, authorized to extend said rail- i
DAD from the track, as the same is now, or t
nay hereafter be, laid through Maryland ave '
Tue, at its intersection with Virginia avenue. r
through and along said Virginia avenue, in an c
asterly direction, to its intersection with ID t
treet SOUTH thence along d street, and across Z
he Washington canal, to New Jersey avenue: 5
hence by a curve to the left, of not less than r
ne thousand feet radius, to point in square C
lumber seven hundred and thirty-two; thence a
y an underground excavation or tunnel. 10
assing under squares number seven hundred n
nd thirty-two, seven hundred and sixty-two.
even hundred ard sixty-one, seven hundred 81
M sixty seven hundred and eighty eavar ~,