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 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 33, 34. 18§3. 65] executive committee, whose duty it shall be to carry into effect the plans and purposes for which said association was formed, all of which officers shall be elected on the 'dfteenth day of March next, and hold their offices till the second Tuesday of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, on _ which day, and annually on the second Tuesday of January in each succeeding year, at the annual meeting of said association, which shall be held on said day, their successors shall be elected and hold their offices for the term of one year, and until their successors shall be duly elected. And in case of a vacancy it shall be lilled by the other members of the executive committee. · Sue. 3. And be it further enacted, That said society may receive into Society may rea house or building to be provided by it, any destitute child or children T.}'; d°’Sm“‘° at the request of the parents or guardians, or next friend, or the mother, C I mh if the father be dead, or has abandoned his family, or does not provide for their support, or is an habitual drunkard, such parents, guardians, or next friend, or mother, making a written surrender of such child or children. The superintendent or other officer in immediate charge may, with the concurrence of the executive committee, or of a board of trustees to be appointed by said committee, and to consist of three persons, citizens , of Wasliington City, govern the inmates, preserve order, enforce discipline, G$>V¤¥¤¤1¤¤l¤ of impart instruction in useful knowledge and some regular course of labor, the msmuu°n’ and establish rules for the preservation of health, and for their proper physical, intellectual, and moral improvement. The trustees may, with the consent of the executive committee, bind out by indenture, such chil- Children may dren as may be deemed capable of learning trades or of becoming useful b° b°““d °“° in other occupations to such persons as will give them the benefit of good examples, wholesome instruction, and other means of improvement in virtue and knowledge, and the opportunity of becoming intelligent, moral, and useful members of society. t Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for said asso- What lands asciatiou, by and with the advice and consent of the Secretary of War, to ;3‘gf“°“ ‘““Y °°‘ occupy for the objects of said association any lands, not exceeding one ` hundred acres, and the improvements thereon, which the Government may now own or may hereafter acquire, contiguous to the city of Washington, by confiscation or purchase, such occupation to continue for such a number of years as the Secretary of War may, in writing, prescribe. APPROVED, February 14, 1863. Cntr. XXXIV. -- An Act to establish the Office of Register of Deeds for the District of Feb. 14, 1866. Columbia. _——""`_—' Be it enacted by the Senate and House af Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be appointed Register of _ by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a Bf&d;,.f‘3"0il;fn€:;‘ register of deeds for the District of Columbia, who shall perform all the ` duties respecting the recording of deeds and other instruments of writing, and all other services connected there·with, authorized to be performed by the clerk of the Circuit Court of said District by the fifth section of the act approved March three, eighteen hundred and one, entitled “An act 1801,ch.2-1, §5. supplementary to the act entitled ‘An act concerning the District of V°1·“·P·u5· Columbia,"’ and shall receive the same fees and emoluments for the same. And the said register shall receive and have the charge and Duty of Regiscustody of all the records, papers, and property which may be in the *°"‘ custody or possession of said clerk of the Circuit Court, properly appertaining to and belonging to the office of the register of deeds; and the said clerk is hereby required to deliver the same to said register upon proper application therefor. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior Secretary of in. be directed to appropriate such rooms in any of the public buildings under ;‘;g;*° *¤*¤i¤h