The evening times., 1900-02-24
FOR A DOUGLASS MEMORIAL.
A Bill Authorizing the incorporation
of an Associatfou

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| Representative Mudd, from the House
| Committee on the District, has favorably
reported a substitute for the bill to incor-
porate the Frederick Douglass Memorial
| and Historical Association. 1t provides
that Helen Douglass, William H. H. Hart
| Francis ]. Grimke, May Wright Sewall
Edward A. Clarke, their associates and
! successors shall be declared body polite
and corporate in the District of Columbia,
with perpetual succession, under the name
of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and
Historical Association, for the following
objects and purposes:
To preserve to posterity the memory of
the life and character of the late Frederick
Douglass.
To collect, collate, and preserve a his
torical record Of the inception, progress,
and elimination of the anti-slavery move
ment in the United States, and to assem-
BILE in the homestead of the late Frederick
Douglass, commonly called Cedar Hill, in
/ the village of Anacostia in the District Of
Columbia, all such suitable exhibits of
records or things illustrative or commemo-
rative Of the anti-slavery movement and
history as may be donated to the associa-
ton or acquired by purchase or bequest.
The association shall be competent to
take to themselves and their successors
for the use and behoof of said association
any estate whatsoever. After the associa-
tion shall have acquired title in fee simple
TO a whole or a part of certain property
called Cedar Hill, and occupied by the late
Frederick Douglass as his homestead. il
may manage, repair, improve, and adorn
the same IN such manner as the incorpora-
tors or their successors, or majority of
them. may deem proper
The first meeting of the incorporators Is
10 be held at said Cedar Hill, at such timy
as majority Of the managers shall deter
mine upon. after ten days notice given to
each OF the incorporates, at which first
meeting, or at such other time thereafter
as the incorporators may fix, they may en-
act bylaws
The government Of the association is to
be vested in a board of TRUSTEES Of not less
than five members nor more than nine.
who shall be elected by the corporators
at their first meeting or at such time
thereafter as the corpOrators may at the
frs; meeting appoint for that purpose or
otherwise. it is to be filled by the remain
tees shall have perpetual succession. They
are 10 elect such officers as they may deem
necessary, including a treasurer for such
terms and at such compensation as they
may prescribe. The treasure shall give
such bond as may be fixed by the bylaws,
and all Of the officers of the association,
together with such agents and employees
as il may be deemed necessary TO employ,
shall be subject TO removal for such causes
and under such conditions and regulations
as may be prescribed by the bylaws
The corporation may cause 10 be erected
at such suitable site upon the homestead
aforesaid, after acquisition Of title 10 same
as aforesaid. as may be selected by the
board Of trustes a monument 10 the mem
ory OF the late Frederick Douglass. Of sucn /
character and at such cost as. in their |
judgment. may seem fit.
The board Of trustees of the Frederick /
Douglass Memorial and Historical Assocla- !
tion is authorized 10 organize auxiliary /
associations in the various States and .
counties Of the Union, or elsewhere. for /
the purpose of soliciting funds.
4 bill Of the same general character a. I
this and for the same purpose was ia
vorably recommended by the Commission !
ers and reported by the Committee on the /
District Of Columbia during the last se=-
sion of the Fifty-fif Congress
The substitute recommended by the COM /
mite herewith embraces the substantial .
provisions and adopts the notifications ,
by the Commissioners for the |
bill heretofore reported.