New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-04
No 80.
AN ACT

10 incorporate the Young Men g Christian
Association of New Orleans, and to ex-
empt the property Of The same from taxa
ton.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House OF Representatives of the State
OF Louisiana in General Assembly CON
yened, That Richard II. Brown, James L.
Dunnica, Marshall J. Smith, James n.
BeadLes, William G.. Coyle. Edward C.
Palmer, William G.: Shepherd, Moses NJ
Greenwood, William II. Foster, John S.
Walton, Thomas l. Dix, Charles Clinton,
Henry F.. Given, Frederick j. Odendahl
and A. J. Tardey, Jr, and their associates
and successors, be and are hereby specially
made body corporate and polite for the
Improvement Of the spiritual, intellectual
and social condition of young men and the
promotion of Christian works in the city of
New Orleans, under the name and style Of
the Young. Mems Christian Association of
New Orleans, and under this name shall
exist for the term OF ninety-nine years, and
shall be capable, for the purposes emu
merated in this act, and for all other pur-
poses enumerated in this act, of buying,
selling and mOrtgaging all kinds, of real es-
tate and other kinds of property, OF suing
and being sued in any of the courts of law
and equity of this State, of having a COM
mon seal, and OF altering it at pleasure, to
acquire, have and hold estate real, per
sonal and mixed; and said association shall
be capable in law of inheriting, receiving,
holding, selling and transferring all manner
of property, whether by donation, bequest,
devise, or in any other manner or form,
from any or all persons, body or bodies
corporate in or out Of this State; provided
that the value thereof does not exceed
five hundred thousand dollars.
SEC. 3 Be it further enacted, etc., That
the proper authorities Of said corporation
for holding and managing ITS property
shall be board of trustees, who shall be
elected by the ''active members" of said
association, all of whom shall be members
in good and regular standing in some Pro
testant Evangelical church in the city Of
New Orleans, and each of the Evangelical
Christian denominations of the city OF New
Orleans shall be entitled to and. if desiring
it, shall have a representative in said board
Of trustees, but no denomination shall have
more than four representatives therein.
SEC. g.. Be it further enacted, etc, That
for the present, and until their successors
are elected, as hereinafter provided, the
following named persons shall constitute
the board Of trustees, viz: Richard H.
Brown, James l.. Dunnica, Marshall j.
Smith, James n. Beadles William G.
Coyle, Edward c. Palmer William G. Shep-
herd, Moses M. Greenwood, William H.
Foster, John S. Walton, Thomas L. Dix.
Charles Clinton, Henry f. Given. Fred
y
Jr.; that the said trustees shall be divided
into three classes, as follows: Richard
II. Brown. James L. Dunnica, James
n. Beadles and William G. COyIe shall
compose the first class, and shall hold Office
for three years; Edward C. Palmer, Viii
liam c. Shepherd Moses M. Greenwood,
Jr., William IL. Foster and John S. Walton
shall compose the second class, and shall
hold office for two years Thomas l. Dix,
Charles Clinton, Henry F. Given, Frederick
j. Odendahl and A. j. Tardey, Jr., shall
compose the third class, and shall hold Of
fee for one year. The term Of office of said |
trustees shall commence on the first Tues |
day of February 1872, and shall continue
as herein provided. Five trustees shall be |
elected annually thereafter by the life and |
active members of the association, at an |
annual meeting to be held on the first Tues |
day in February OF each year succeeding, |
to till~ the places. of the trustees whose |
terms of Office shall expire that year, and |
the trustees so elected shall hold Office for |
three years from the date of the election,
and until their successors in Office are
elected. Whenever any vacancy by
death or otherwise shall occur in said board
Of trustees, the same shall be filled by a
majority vote of the remaining trustees:
provided, that the party so chosen to fill the |
shall be of the same religious de-
nomination as the one whose place he is
elected to fill. Said board OF trustees shall,
from time to time, elect from among their
number a president, secretary and treas
urer, and majority of said board Of
trustees shall constitute quorum for the
OF business, but in matters of
sale, transfer or mortgage OF the real estate
Of the association, there must be present at
he meeting of the board one or more rep
'esentatives from each religious denOmina
ion which may have members in said ass0-
I
5entatiyes OF each religious denomination
shall cast 0neevote only, and the majority
must be three-f0urths to order said sale, or
transfer, or mortgage.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, etc, That
he members Of said association shall from
ime 10 time, as they deem best, make
ldOpt, alter and amend a constitution, and
uch bylaws, rules and regulations, and do
useful for the good government,
and support of said corpora
ion not repugnant to the constitution and
avs of the United States, to the -cOnstitu--
ion and laws Of this State, or to this act Of
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted etc, That
he domicile Of said association shall be at
he rooms of the corporation in the city Of
New Orleans, and the president Of the board
# trustees shall he authorized to receive
citations in all cases Of suits instituted
sgainst the association.
SEC 6. Be it further enacted, etc, That
n consideration of the work that this asso
ion proposes to do, in providing free read
ng rooms and a public library for the
'oung men of,New Orleans, the property Of
aid association shall forever be free from
axatfon, State or municipal. =
(Signed) o. H. BREWSTER.
speaker of the House OF. Representative. 4
(Signed 2. B. s. PINCHBACK,
lieutenant Governor and President Of the
Senate. -Fa 49,.