An Act to supplement and modify the act of May 24, 1828 (6 Stat. 383, ch. CXII), insofar as it relates to the corporate powers of the Sisters of the Visitation of Georgetown in the District of Columbia
PL 86-32 (H.R.4282), enacted 05/26/1959

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Public Law 86-32 
AN A C T 
May 26, 1959 
To supplement and modify the Act of May 24, 1828 (6 Stat. 383, cli. CXII), 
[H. R. 4:Z82] 
insofar as it relates to the corporate powers of the Sisters of the Visitation, 
of Georgetown in the District of Columbia. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That in addition to th^Vuit^tion? °' 
the rights, powers, duties, and obligations granted to and imposed upon ^^°^^ 
por a t 
the Sisters of the Visitation (hereinafter referred to as "the corpora-
tion"), of Georgetown in the District of Columbia, by the Act of 
May 24, 1828, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Sisters of Charity 
of St. Joseph and the Sisters of the Visitation of Georgetown, in 
the District of Columbia" (6 Stat. 383, ch. CXII, Little and Brown's 
edition), the corporation shall have the power— 
(a) to appoint a board of trustees or a board of directors, con-
sisting of such number of Sisters of the Visitation, or other per-
sons, as may be desired; and to appoint a president, secretary, and 
treasurer for the corporation; 
(b) to create, establish, and operate schools and colleges and 
departments of learning to be connected with and become a part 
of the corporation, such schools and colleges to be known as 
Georgetown Visitation Junior College and Georgetown Visita-
tion Preparatory School and by such other name or names as may 
be appropriate; and to appoint a dean or principal for each of 
the same, and such professors and teachers and other personnel 
as may be necessary or desirable, and to displace any of them, as 
the interests of the institution may require; 
(c) to fill vacancies which may happen by death, resignation, 
or otherwise among such trustees, directors, officers, professors, 
teachers, and other personnel; 
(d) to prescribe and direct the courses of studies to be pursued 
at such schools and colleges; and the branches of the arts, sci-
ences, literature, subjects, and courses which may be taught in such 
schools and colleges are the following: Philosophy, natural sci-
ences, mathematics, history, belles-lettres, ancient and modern 
languages, library science, shorthand and typing, and allied sub-
jects; 
(e) to admit any of the students in attendance at the George-
toAvn Visitation Preparatory School and Georgetown Visitation 
Junior College, and such other schools and colleges so established, 
and other persons meriting academic honors, to any degree in the 
faculties, arts, sciences, and the liberal professions to which such 
persons usually are admitted in other and similar schools and 
colleges; and to issue in an appropriate form the diplomas or 
certificates which may be requisite to testify to the admission to 
such degrees; 
(f) to establish such scholastic boards and offices as may be 
required for academic operation and direction in education; 
(g) to enter into affiliation agreements with any institutions 
of learning, within or outside of the District of Columbia, for 
the purpose of making available to the students of such institu-
tions the educational facilities of the corporation upon such terms 
as are mutually agreed upon by each of the affiliated institutions; 
(h) to receive, invest and administer endowments and gifts of 
money and personal property absolutely, or subject to payments 
by way of annuities during the life of the donor, for the main-
tenance of educational work by the corporation and by any school, 
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striction. 
6 Stat. 383. 
Reservation. 
college, department, or chair thereof now established or which 
may hereafter be created or established by the corporation. 
SEC. 2. (a) The corporation shall not employ its funds or income, 
or any part thereof, in banking or insurance operations, or for any 
purpose or object other than those expressed herein and in such Act 
of May 24, 1828. 
(b) The limitation with respect to annual income from real estate, 
contained in the proviso at the end of section 3 of such Act of May 24, 
1828, shall not apply hereafter to the corporation. 
SEC. 3. No misnomer of the corporation, or of any of its schools 
or colleges, shall defeat or annul any donation, gift, grant, devise, or 
bequest to or from the corporation. 
SEC. 4. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Enactment, or any 
part thereof, is hereby expressly reserved. 
Approved May 26, 1959. 
May 26, 195? 
[H. R. 4597] 
Public Law 86-33 
AN ACT 
To provide for the training of postmasters under the Government Employees 
Training Ac-t. 
Postmasters. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 4(a) (5) 
of the Government Employees Training Act (72 Stat. 329; 5 U.S.C. 
2303(a)(5)) is amended by inserting "(other than a postmaster)" 
immediately following the word "Senate". 
Approved May 26, 1959. 
May 29, 1959 
[H. R. 3681] 
Public Law 86-34 
AN ACT 
To provide for the free entry of certain chapel bells imported for the use of 
the Abelard Reynolds School Numbered 42, Rochester, New York. 
Abelard 
R e y n -
olds School, N. y . 
Chapel bells. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Treasury is authorized and directed to admit free of duty 
twenty-five chapel bells, which are more particularly described as 
two fully chromatic octaves, twenty-five bells, in the key of C, num-
ber 22 size, imported for the use of the Abelard Reynolds School 
Numbered 42, Rochester, New York. 
Approved May 29, 1959. 
May 29, 1959 
[H. R. 4695] 
Public Law 86-35 
AN ACT 
To amend section 108(a) of title 23 of the United States Code to increase the 
period in which actual construction shall commence on rights-of-way acquired 
in anticipation of such construction from Ave years to seven years, and for 
other purposes. 
H i g h w a y s , 
rights-of-way. 
72 Stat. 893. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate atid House of Repr-esentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress a^semhled^ That the second 
sentence of subsection (a) of section 108 of title 23 of the United 
States Code is amended by striking out "five years" and inserting in 
lieu thereof "seven years".