The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-10-05
foFFIcIAL.
LAWS on THE UNITED STATES,
Passed. at the First Session of tte Thirty-Ninth
Congress.
[PUBLIC-No. 1871

PUBLTC-No. rs.
An Act to incorporate the Howard Insti-
tute and Home" of the District of Column
bia -
BE Il enacted By the Senate and Hoase Of Rep :
reseRfaftres Of the United States OF 4Amei1ed ~
Congress assembled, That James u. Edmuuds'
Sayies j. Bowen, Cordial Storrs, Agustih
Chester, John r. Elvans, ]. Sayles Brown,
and Linus ID. Bishop, and their assosiates
and successors, are hereby declared TO be
body polite and corporate, under the name
and style of "The Howard Institute and
Home OF the District of Columbia, and a.
such shall have perpetual succession, WIN
power TO receive, purchase, and hold real VI
personal property, and be able to sue and be
sued, and to plead and be implicated IN an
courts OF law equity and in the United States
and to ordain and establish such bylaws,
ordinances, and regulations as may be
deemed necessary to carry into effect TINS
act, and promote the objects of the corpora
ton hereby created
SEC. 2. Ind be it further enacted, That
the object for which this corporation Is
declared to be the establishment of charl-
table institution for the instruction of freed
men in the industrial pursuits of life and mt
them for independent self-support, and TO
afford a temporary home for such freedmen
as may, from sickness, misfortune, age or IN
trinity, require fostering case until other
wise relieved.
SEC. 3. Aad be it further enacted, That
James NJ Edmunds, Sayles j. Bowen, Cor
dial Storrs, Augustin Chester, John X. FL
vans, j. Sayles Brown, and Linus ID. Bishop,
are hereby appointed a board of managers
of said Howard Institute and Home" for
one year from and after the passage of this
act and that thereafter board of mana
| gers, consisting of seven persons, shall be
! elected from and by the contributors to the
means to establish said institution, for such
time and according to such rules as SAID cor
poratiOn may establish. And said board OF
managers shall have the exclusive control OF
| all the property, real or personal, contrlbu-
ted or belonging to said corporation, and to
/ appoint such officers as may be deemed re-
quiSite for the conduct of its business. for
such time and at such salaries as they may
determine, and to change either at pleasure.
SEC. 4. 4Rd be it further enacted, That
! the corporation hereby created shall be es-
tabhshed and maintained by voluntary con-
tributions, gifts, donations, or requests OF
money or other property, made to the same
for that purpose And the board sr mana
gers shall cause 4 record to be kept of all
such contributions, gifts, donations, and be
Quests, with the name and residence of each
person making the same, and of all eXpen
ditures made by said board for the establish
ment and conduct of said Institute and
Home, and make an annual report of the
same, exhibiting the several items of eX
penditare and objects thereof, and geneTally
the work accomplished by said corporation
to the Secretary of the Interior, Il copy o
which report shall be sent to each individ
ual who shall have contributed not less thar
five dollars to said incorporation during the
year previous to the issuing of said report
SEC. ;. Ind be II further enacted That
! Congress may, at any time, alter, amend, OF
annuI this act.
Approved, Jnne 81, 1866