The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-15
CHAP. CIV.
CHAP. CIV.
An Act to incorporate st. AIMS Infant Asylum,
in the District OF Columbia.

CHAP. CIV.
An Act to incorporate st. AIMS Infant Asylum,
in the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That Theresa A. Costello,
Lucy Gwynn, Margaret Bowden, Sarah NJ. Car
roll, Catherine Ryan, Louisa Fisher, and Catherine
Shea, and their successors, be- and they are here
by, made body polite and corporate forever, by
the name of &C St. AIMS Infant Asylum" for the
purpose of establishing and maintaining in the
city of Washington, IN the District of Columbia,
an institution for the maintenance and support OF
foundings and infant orphan and half orphan
children, and also to provide for deserving indi-
gent and unprotected females during their con-
finement in childbirth and by that name may sue
and be sued, prosecute and defend; may have and
use common seal, and the same alter and renew
at pleasure; may adopt and establish rules, regu-
lations, and bylaws not repugnant to the Con-
stitution and laws of the United States, for prop
erly conducting the affairs of said corporation;
may take receive purchase, and hold estate, real,
personal and mixed, not exceeding in value at
aany one time one hundred thousand dollars, and
may manage and dispose of the same, and apply
the same or the proceeds of the sales thereof, 10
the uses and purposes OF said corporation, ac-
cording to the rules and regulations which now
are or may hereatterat any time be established.
Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That said
corporation shall be entitled to retain under their
care, charge, and restraint, and subject to the
rules and discipline of said corporation, ali found
ings and infant children committed to their keep
ing as fully and completely, to all intents and
purposes, as if they were regularly indented and
bound apprentices to said institution, until said
foundings and infants shall be, if males, twenty
one years old, and if females eighteen years DID,
Or any shorter period that may be agreed upon ;
and said corporation shall have power to bind
them out fer time not to exceed said ages of
twcnty-one and eighteen years, respectively, as
apprentices to learn any trade or business, or to
learn to be useful in housekeeping, or may, under
terms proper in the view of the said corporation
and to be by them stipulated, place them for adop
ton or as inmates with any families or persons,
said corporation not being restricted in the eXcr
else of their powers of binding or placing out to
the District of Columbia; and all such acts shall
be in writing, signed by the president of said cor
poration and scaled with their corporate seal, ana
signed and scaled by the persons taking said chill
drer apprentices or as aforesaid, and acknowl-
edged by said parties before justice of the peace
in and for said District, and within one month
thereafter recorded in the office of the register OF
wills for said District.
Sec. g. And be it further enacted, That Con-
grcss may at any time hereafter alter, amend or
repeal this act.
Approved, March 3, 1868.