1995 US Code
Title 36 - PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES
CHAPTER 76 - FREDERICK DOUGLASS MEMORIAL AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Sec. 4401 - Corporation created; objects and purposes
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 1994 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 36 - PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 36 - PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES CHAPTER 76 - FREDERICK DOUGLASS MEMORIAL AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Sec. 4401 - Corporation created; objects and purposes |
Contains | section 4401 |
Date | 1995 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 1996 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | June 6, 1900, ch. 806, §1, 31 Stat. 662. |
Statutes at Large Reference | 31 Stat. 662 |
§4401. Corporation created; objects and purposes
Helen Douglass, William H. H. Hart, Francis J. Grimke, May Wright Sewall, Edward A. Clarke, their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby declared to be, a body politic and corporate, in the District of Columbia, with perpetual succession, by and under the name, style, and title of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, for the following objects and purposes, to wit:
First. To preserve to posterity the memory of the life and character of the late Frederick Douglass.
Second. To collect, collate, and preserve a historical record of the inception, progress, and culmination of the antislavery movement in the United States, and to assemble 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 commemorative of the antislavery movement and history as may be donated to said association or acquired by purchase 1 bequest, or other lawful means.
(June 6, 1900, ch. 806, §1, 31 Stat. 662.)
1 So in original. Probably should be followed by a comma.
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