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 E f FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 33, 34. 1870. 79 Sec. 4. And be ztfurt/Her made0L That said company is also authorized P°?’°’¤ °f °°*'· to buy, build, charter, or run steamers, and to purchase, hold, and grant p°"m°°' such real, personal, or mixed estate as may be necessary to carry into x eH`ect the purposes of this act, and to build all necessary docks, wharves, and buildings thereon for their own use; may transport passengers and freight of every description, subject to the rules and regulations and laws of the United States; muy sue and be sued; may have a common Common seal. seal; and generally may have and possess the rights and privileges l usually possessed by similar corporations, or granted under this act, and may issue bonds of the denomination of not less than one hundred B¤¤dS· E dollars, in an amount not exceeding one half of the capital stock of said company. g Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the afairs of said company of6cm Md shall be managed by such officers as the stockholders in general meeting 3g°m` shall elect, and such agents as may be appointed by the board of directors. The persons named in the first section of this act, or 2. majority · of them, may call a meeting of the stockholders for the purpose of 2 organizing said company at such time and place in the city of Wash- Ofg¤¤iZ¤!i<>¤ s ington as they may determine upon, after advertising the time and °f °°rp°"'“°°' place of such meeting for ten days in one or more newspapers published in the city of Washington. The officers of said company, once elected, {-m,O($;‘;,";at‘Qh(.f;ld shall hold their offices for one year, or until their successors are chosen. &¤.° Sec. 6. Ami be it further enacted, That the board of directors may K make all necessary rules and by·laws For the issuing and transfer of the By·1aw¤- E stock and general management of the business of said company. Sec. 7. And be it further cnacied That this act shall be enforced from A¤*;l*°{¤ *° E the passage thereofl mw ° €°t’ E Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That Congress may at any time here- ";“§’ lg "°‘ after alter, amend, or repeal this act. pw 8 ’ c` Armoveo, March 25, 1870. { CHAP. XXXIV.—-·An Act to inco1£qrate the Washington General Hospital and Asylum March 25, 1870. E of the zsmctof Columbza. `it i Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represematives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That Silas L. Loomis, Robert Gem@‘g%;°Qtd Q Reyburn, Harvey Lindsly, Byron Sunderland, O. O. Howard, Sayles J. and Asyyumpog g Bowen, D. W. Anderson, Lewis Clephane, Geo. A. Balloch, Lafayette the Di¤f}‘i¤§ of h C. Loomis, Joseph T. Johnson, S. P. Brown, and Charles S. English, ggggggla '"°°" L their associates and successors, are hereby made, declared, and constituted h a. corporation and body politic, in law and in fact, under the name and “ style of the Washington General Hospital and Asylum of the District of' Columbia; and by that name they shall be, and are hereby, made capable P<;v~¤· °f°°'* in law to prosecute and defend suits befqre all proper courts and tribu— p°m`°°' nals; to have 0. common seal, the same to break, alter, and renew at pleasure; to purchase, lease, receive, hold, improve, possess, and enjoy, and the same to sell, grant, demise, and dispose of} personal and real property, as they may deem for the best interest and welfare of the hospital; to have full power and right; to make and ordein all by-laws for BY-NWS- the government of said corporation and hospital not inconsistent with the laws of the United States ; and to have and enjoy full power and all the right of opening and keeping a hospital and asylum in the District of C0- lumbia for the care of sick, wounded, and invalid persons and children: Provided, That the annual income of said corporation shall not exceed Limittc inthirty thousand dollars, and that all the real and personal property of said °°"“°' hospital and asylum shall be held, used, and devoted exclusively to the A P§;§°*’*f» how purposes beibre named: And provided further. That this act may be al- PRC, ,;,,0, be tered, amended, or repealed at the pleasure of Congress. altered, Gm. APPROVED, March 25, 1870.