, 1868-12-11
OFFICIAL!
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Second Session Of the FOrtisth Coz
gress.


LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Second Session ofhs Fortieth Con-
grsss.
PuBLIo-No. "a.
AN ACT to incorporate the " Washington Target
shooting association" in the District Of
Columbia.
Be ii enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
sentdtiUes of the United States Of America in Con-
gress assembled, That Charles Klomann, Frede,
rick Hugler, Charles Ebel, John H. Stailey,
Adolf ClusS, G. Dill, Gustav Hartig, B. Hence,
John Kessel, Casper Kueessi, E. l.. Schmidt,
Richard Wallach, NJ. Michler, Lewis Clephane,
and A. G. Richards, of Washington city, in the
District of Columbia, and their associates and
successors, be, and are hereby, incorporated and
made body corporate, by the name of the
Washington Target shooting Association" and
by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded, in any court of law of competent ju'
risdiction, and be entitled to use and exercise
all the powers, rights, and privileges incident to
such corporation, for the purpose of establishing
and maintaining, in the District of Columbia, a
Park" designated and named the " Washing
ton Schutzen- Park" the object of which shall
be moral and social and to acquire proficiency
and skill as marksmen.
Sec. 2. And be 1t further enacted, That the
capital stock Of said corporation shall not exceed
one hundred thousand dollars, and that the stock
shall be divided into shares of twenty five dol
lars each, and shall be transferable in such man.
ner as the said corporation, BY its bylaws may
direct.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the
government and direction of the affairs of the
corporation shall be vested in board of direc-
tors, not less than nine in number, who shall be
elected by the stockholders from among the
corporators and their associates and successors,
in such manner as the bylaws of the corporation
may direct.
SEC. 4. And Be ii further enacted, That the
said corporation shall have full power to make
and prescribe such bylaws, rules, and regula.
tiOns they may deem needful and proper for
the management of the stock, property, estate,
and effects of the corporation not inconsistent
with the laws in force in the District of Coum-
bia to have and use a common seal, with the
privilege of altering the same at pleasure to
purchase, take, and hold, by deed or otherwise,
any property, real personal, or mixed, and the
same, or any part thereof to dispose of at pleas
ure and 10 execute, such deed or deeds or other
cooveyaLces as may be necessary therefor to
issue stock, and make all suitable and necessary
regulations for the purchase sale, and transfer
of the same to borrow money to impose fines
upon the members, and collect the same as other
small debts are collected to expel members
to make provision for the admission of members,
and to provide for the election of such officers
as may be deemed necessary for the proper man,
agement of the affairs Of said corporation and
generally to have and exercise all such other
and further corporate powers as may be deemed
necessary for the purpose of carrying out effect
ually the object and purposes OF this act: Pro-
vided That the property of the said association,
real, personal, aud mixed, shall be held for the
purposes, and none other, expressed in the first
section of this act.
SEC. 5. AHd be it further enacted That the
members of said corporation shall have power to
exercise in target. shooting at any time they may
deem proper, except on the Sabbath day, com
monty called Sunday.
SEC 6. And be it further enacted, That MOTH
ing in this act contained shall give to said corpo-
ration any banking privileges.
SEC. 7. And be ii further enacted, That this
act shall take effect from aud after dts passage
aud that the same may be altered, amended, or
repealed, at the pleasure of Congress.
Approved, July %, 1868.