An Act to provide for the incorporation of the National Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, organized 1883, seventy-eight years old
PL 87-650 (S.2250), enacted 09/07/1962

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(1) Section 303(c). 
SEC. 15. This Act shall take effect on November 1, 1962. Laws 
enacted after January 9, 1962, that are inconsistent with this Act 
shall supersede it to the extent of the inconsistency. 
Approved September 7, 1962. 
September 7, 1962 
[S.22S0} 
Public Law 87-650 
AN ACT 
To provide for the incorporation of the National Woman's Relief Corps, Aux-
iliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, organized 1883, seventy-eight years 
old. 
National Wom-
an's Relief Corps. 
Incorporation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
persons, to wit: 
President: Mabel R. Ginder, Toledo, Ohio; 
Senior vice president: Jessie Johnston, Cheyenne, Wyoming; 
Junior vice president: Irene Randolph, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 
Secretary: Bessie K. Coughlin, Providence, Rhode Island; 
Treasurer: Ocie M. Tumey, Springfield, Illinois, executive officers; 
Legislative committee: Laura 1. Smith, chairman, 16 Temple Street, 
Providence, Rhode Island; Ethel Ferris Hasenbuhler, Washington, 
District of Columbia; and Marie Morgan, Indianapolis, Indiana; 
Past national presidents: Cora M. Davis, Nehalem, Oregon; 
Catherine McBride Hoster, Indianapolis, Indiana; Annie Poole At-
wood, Wollaston, Massachusetts; Beatrice J. Tyson, DeBary, Florida; 
Lizetta Coady, Detroit, Michigan; Mary J. Love, Louisville, Ken-
tucky; Ida Heacock Baker, Parsons, Kansas; Elizabeth L. Kothe, 
Parkersburg, Iowa; Grace Houlette Hahn, Miami, Florida; Louise 
Haider, Santa Barbara. California; Anne Anschutz, Saint Louis, 
Missouri; Laura I. Smith, Providence, Rhode Island; Alice F, Lar-
son, Minot, North Dakota; Grayce L. Vedetta, Brooklyn, New York; 
Harriette G. McCollou'Hi, Des Moines, Iowa ; Eula M. Nelson, Spring-
field, Illinois; Daisy Heinemann, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Grace L. 
Johnson, Toledo, Ohio; Ruth E. Johnson, Bellflower, California; 
Lucille V. Rand, Worcester, Massachusetts; Gertrude M. Edwards, 
Iroquois, South Dakota; Bessie K. (Coughlin, Providence, Rhode 
Island; Elizabeth Jeans, Saint Louis, Missouri; and Josephine E. 
Parkhurst, Pulaski, New York, and their successors, are hereby created 
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and declared to be a body corporate of the District of Columbia, where 
its legal domicile shall be, by the name of the National Woman's 
Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the .Grand Army of the Republic (here-
after referred to as the corporation), and by such name shall be known 
and have perpetual succession and the powers, limitations and restric-
tions herein contained. 
It shall be the duty of the persons named in 
this section, jointly and severally, to file with the Superintendent of 
Corporations of the District of Columbia a copy of this Act within 
fifteen days after the date of its enactment. 
SEC. 2. A majority of the persons named in the first section of 
this Act, acting in person or by written proxy, are authorized to com-
plete the organization of the corporation by the selection of officers, 
the adoption of a constitution and bylaws not inconsistent with this 
Act, and the doing of such other acts as may be necessary for such 
purpose. 
SEC. 3. The purposes of the corporation shall be: To perpetuate 
Purposes, 
the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic, as we the National 
Woman's Relief Corps are their auxiliary and were organized at their 
request in 1883, and of men who saved the Union in 1861 to 1865; 
to assist in every practicable way in the preservation and making 
available for research of documents and records pertaining to the 
Grand Army of the Republic and its members; to cooperate in doing 
honor to all those who have patriotically served our country in any 
war; to teach patriotism and the duties of citizenship, the true history 
of our country, and the love and honor of our flag; to oppose every 
tendency or movement that would weaken loyalty to, or make for the 
destruction or impairment of, our constitutional Union; and to incul-
cate and broadly sustain the American principles of representative 
government, of equal rights, and of iinpartial justice for all. 
SEC. 4. The corporation shall have power— 
corporate 
(1) to have succession by its corporate name; 
powers. 
(2) to sue and be sued, complam and defend in any court of 
competent jurisdiction; 
(3) to adopt, use, and alter a corporate seal; 
(4) to choose such officers, as the corporation may require; 
(5) to adopt, amend, and alter a constitution and bylaws; not 
inconsistent with the laws of the United States or any State in 
which the corporation is to operate, for the management of its 
property and the regulation of its affairs; 
(6) to contract and be contracted with; 
(7) to take by lease, gift, purchase, grants, devise, or bequest 
from any public body or agency or any private corporation, asso-
ciation, partnership, firm, or individual and to hold absolutely 
or in trust for any of the purposes of the corporation any prop-
erty, real, personal, or mixed, necessary or convenient for attain-
ing the objects and carrying into effect the purposes of the cor-
poration, subject, however, to applicable provisions of law of any 
State, (A) governing the amount or kind of property which may 
be held by, or (B) otherwise limiting or controlling the owner-
ship of property by, a corporation operating in such State; and 
(8) to transfer, convey, lease, sublease, encumber, and other-
wise'alienate real, personal, or mixed property. 
SEC. 5. Eligibility for membership in the corporation and the rights. Membership, 
privileges, and designation of classes of members shall, except as pro- e^sibiiity. 
vided in this Act, be determined as the constitution and bylaws of the 
corporation may provide. 
P^ligibility for membership in the corpora-
tion shall be women, who are the wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters 
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of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines and other loyal women, who 
have not given aid or comfort to the enemies of the United States of 
America. 
SEC. 6. The supreme governing authority of the corporation shall 
be the national convention thereof, composed of such officers and 
elected representatives from the several States as shall be provided by 
the rules and regulations: Provided, That the form of the government 
of the corporation shall always b3 representative of the membership 
at large and shall not permit the concentration of the control thereof 
in the hands of a limited number of members or in a self-perpetuating 
group not so representative. 
The meetings of the national convention 
may be held in any State or in the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 7. (a) During the intervals between the national convention 
the executive officers shall be the governing board of the corporatio.nL 
and shall be held responsible for the general policies, program, and 
activities of the corporation. 
(b) Upon the enactment of this Act the membership of the initial 
executive officers of the corporation shall consist of the executive 
officers of the National Woman's Belief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand 
Army of the Republic, the corporation described in section 18 of this 
Act, or such of them as may then be living and are qualified members 
of said executive officers, to wit: Mabel R. Ginder, Jessie Johnston, 
Irene Randolph, Bessie K. Coughlin, Ocie M. Tumey, Mary J. Love, 
Laura I. Smith, Ethel Ferris Hasenbuhler, and Marie Morgan. 
(c) Thereafter, the council of administration of the corporation 
shall consist of not less than seven membsrs elected in the manner 
and for the term as may be prescribed in the constitution and bylaws 
of the corporation. 
SEC. 8. The officers of the corporation shall be a national president, 
senior vice national president, junior vice national president, secretary 
and treasurer (which latter two offices may be held by one person), 
and such other officers as may be prescribed in the constitution and 
bylaws. The officers of the corporation shall be elected in such 
manner and for such terms and with such duties and titles as may be 
prescribed in the constitution and bylaws of the corporation. 
SEC. 9. (a) The principal office of the corporation shall be located 
in Springfield, Illinois, but the activities of the corporation shall not 
be confined to that place, but may be conducted throughout the vari-
ous States, and the District of Columbia, of the United States. 
(b) The corporation shall have in the District of Columbia at all 
times a designated agent authorized to accept service of process, 
notice, or demand for the corporation, and service of such process, 
notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served upon the 
corporation may be served upon such agent. 
The corporation shall 
file with the Superintendent of Corporations of the District of Co-
lumbia a statement designating the initial and each successor reg-
istered agent of the corporation immediately following any such 
designation. 
As used in this Act the term "Superintendent of Corpo-
rations of the District of Columbia" means the Commissioners of the 
District of Columbia or any agent designated by them to perform 
the functions vested by this Act in the Superintendent of Corpora-
tions. 
Use of income. 
SEC. 10. (a) No part of the income or assets of the corporation shall 
inure to any of its members or officers as such, or be distributable to 
any of them, during the life of the corporation or upon its dissolution 
or final liquidation. 
Nothing in this subsection, however, shall be 
construed to prevent the payment of reasonable compensation to 
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officers of the corporation or reimbursement for actual necessary ex-
penses in amounts approved by the council of administration of the 
corporation. 
(b) The corporation shall not make loans to the .officers. 
Any 
member of the council of administration, who votes for or assents to 
the making of a loan or advance to an officer or member of the corpora-
tion, and any officer who participates in the making of such a loan or 
advance, shall be jointly and severally liable to the corporation for 
the amount of such loan until the repayment thereof. 
SEG, 11. The corporation and its officers and agents as such shall 
not contribute to or otherwise support or assist any political party or 
candidate for public office. 
SEC. 12. The corporation shall be liable for the acts of its officers 
and agents when acting within the scope of their authority. 
SEC. 13. The corporation shall have no power to issue any shares 
of stock or to declare or pay any dividends. 
SEC. 14. The corporation shall keep correct and complete books and 
records of account and shall keep minutes of the proceedings of its 
national convention. All books and records of the corporation may 
be inspected by any member, or his agent or attorney, for any proper 
purpose at any reasonable time. 
SEC. 16. (a) The accounts of the corporation shall be audited an-
nually in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards by 
independent certified public accountants or independent licensed pub-
lic accountants, certified or licensed by a regulatory authority of a 
State or other political subdivision of the United States. The; audit 
shall be conducted at the place or places where the accounts of the 
corporation are normally kept. All books, accounts, financial records, 
reports, files, and all other papers, things, or property belonging to 
or in use by the corporation and necessary to facilitate the audit shall 
be made available to the person or persons conducting the audit; and 
full facilities for verifying transactions with the balances or securities 
held by depositories, fiscal agents, and custodians shall be afforded to 
such person or persons. 
(b) A report of such independent audit shall be submitted to the 
Report to con-
Congress ngt later than six months following the close of the fiscal sress. 
year for which the audit was made. The report shall set forth the 
scope of the audit and include such statements as are necessary to 
present fairly the corporation's assets and liabilities, surplus or deficit 
with an analysis of the changes therein during the year, sources and 
application of funds, and the financial results of any trading, manu-
facturing, publishing, or other commercial-type endeavor carried on 
by the corporation, together with the independent auditor's opinion 
of those statements. Such report shall not be printed as a public 
document. 
SEC. 16. Not later than six months following the close of the fiscal 
year the corporation shall report to the Congress on its activities dur-
ing the preceding fiscal year. Such report may consist of a report 
on the proceedings of the national convention covering such fiscal 
year. Such report shall not be printed as a public document. 
SEC. 17. The corporation and its subordinate corps shall have the 
sole and exclusive right to use the name, the National Woman's Relief 
Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. The corpora-
tion shall have the exclusive and sole right to use, or to allow or refuse 
the use of, such emblems, seals, and badges as have heretofore been 
used by the Illinois corporation described in section 18 and the right 
to which may be lawfully transferred to the corporation. 
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SEC. 18. The corporation may acquire the assets of the National 
Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, 
a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, upon 
discharging or satisfactorily providing for the payment and discharge 
of all the liability of such corporation and upon complying with all 
laws of the State of Illinois applicable thereto. 
Distribution of 
SEC. 19. Upou any dissolution or final liquidation of the corporation, 
its assets shall be applied and distributed as follows: 
(a) All liabilities and obligations of the corporation shall be paid, 
satisfied, and discharged, or adequate provision shall be made therefor; 
(b) Assets held by the corporation upon condition requiring return, 
transfer or conveyance, which condition occurs by reason of the disso-
lution, shall be returned, transferred or conveyed in accordance with 
such requirements; 
(c) Assets received and held by the corporation subject to limita-
tions permitting their use only for charitable, religious, eleemosynary, 
benevolent, educational, or similar purposes, but not held upon a con-
dition requiring return, transfer or conveyance by reason of the disso-
lution, shall be transferred or conveyed to one or more domestic or 
foreign corporations, societies, or organizations engaged in activities 
of a charitable, religious, eleemosynary, benevolent, educational, or 
similar purpose, pursuant to a plan of distribution adopted as pro-
vided in this Act; 
(d) Other assets, if any, shall be distributed in accordance with 
the provisions of the articles of incorporation or the bylaws to the 
extent that the articles of incorporation or bylaws determine the dis-
tributive rights of members, or any class or classes of members, or 
provide for distribution to others; 
(e) Any remaining assets may be distributed to such persons, socie-
ties, organizations or domestic or foreign corporations engaged in 
activities not for profit, as may be specified in a plan of distribution 
adopted hj the council of administration of the corporation in com-
pliance with the constitution and bylaws of the corporation and all 
Federal, State, and District of Columbia laws applicable thereto. 
SEC. 20. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expresslj' 
reserved. 
Approved September 7, 1962. 
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Public Law 87-651 
September 7, 1962 
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[H. R. 10433] 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to codify recent military laws, and to 
improve the Code. 
Be it enacted hy the Seiiate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
Aimed Forces. 
T i T L E I . AMENDMENTS TO T i T L E 1 0 , U N I T E D S T A T E S C O D E T O 
INCORPORATE RECENT LAWS 
SEC. 101. The second sentence of section 280 of title 10, United States 
70A Stat. 14. 
Code, is amended T
b
y ^striking out "513," and "742,". 
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0 use 671-686. 
SEC. 102. (a) Chapter 39 of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
by adding after section 686: