New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-07
Secretary of State
No SO.
AN ACT

| N o SO.
AN ACT
To incorporate the Young Mems 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
vened, That Richard Il. Brown, James L
| Dunnica, Marshall j. Smith, James n
Beadles, William G.. Coyle Edward C
| Palmer, William G.. Shepherd, Moses NJ
| Greenwood, William H. Foster John S
| Walton, Thomas /. 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 a 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
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 9 BE if further enacted etc That
the proper authorities of said corporation
for holding and managing It's property
shall be a board of trustees, who shall be
elected by the Aactive 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 representative in said board
of trustees, but no denomination shall have
more than four representatives therein.
II 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 G. Palmer, William G. Shep-
herd, Moses NJ. Greenwood, William H.
Foster, John S. Walton, Thomas l. Dix,
Charles Clinton, Henry F. Given, Fred
erick j.. Odendahl and A. j. Tardey.
Jr.; that the said trustees shall be divided
into three classes, as follows; Richard
HI, Brown, James l.. Dunnica, James
n. Beadles and William G. Coyle shall
compose the first class, and shall hold Office
for three years; Edward G. Palmer, Will
liam c. Shepherd, Moses NJ. Greenwood,
JT., William H. Foster and John S. Walton
shall compose the second class, and shall
hold office for two years: Thomas /. 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 fill 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, |
apd 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 filed by a |
majority vote of the remaining trustees; |
provided, that the party so chosen to till 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 I
number a president, secretary and treas
lrer, and a 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
If the association, there must be present at
bo Of tho hnorJ
'esentatives from each religious denomina /
ion which may have members in said assO-
cations and said representative or repre-
Of each religious denomination
hall cast one vote only, and the majority
must be three-fourths to order said sale, or
transfer, or mortgage.
SEC. /. Be it further enacted, etc, That
he members of said association shall, from
ime 10 time, as they deem best make, |
dept, alter and amend a constitution, and
uch bylaws, rules and regulations, and do
verifying useful for the good government,
and support of said corpora
ion not repUgnant to the constitution and
avs of the United States, to the c2nstitu-
ion aad laws Of this State, or to this act of
Sec ). Be it further enacted. etc, That
he ddmicile of said association shall be at
he rooms of the corporation in the city of
(ew Orleans, and the president of the board
f trustees shall be authorized to receive
itations in all cases of suits instituted
gainst the association.
SEC. s. Be it further enacted, etc, That
4 consideration Of the work that this asso-
ion proposes to do, in providing free read
lg rooms and a public library for the
Dung men of New Orleans, the property of
aid association shall forever be free from
axation, State or municipal
(Sipned1 q Fl BREWSTER
peaker Of the House OF Representatives.
(Signed) P.B. S. PINCHBACK,
lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
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