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 414 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ons. 20, 21. 1893. J &¤¤¤¤‘y 6. 1893- CHAP. 20.-An act to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation _"_""“ of the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Protestant Evi¤<=<>· States of America in Congress assembled, That William Paret, John S. },’§{,',f“'j§{°(‘§f‘1i,g§’,¥‘,,'f,',lf B. Hodges, William Keyser, of Maryland; Melville W. Fuller, Walter sw!-` to S. Cox, George William Douglas, Randolph H. McKim, Thomas Lin- 1°°°°°° "` coln Casey, John G. Parke, John M. Wilson, Henry E. Pellew, John A. Kasson, Charles C. Glover, George Truesdell, Edward J. Stellwagen Alexander T. Britton, Calderon Carlisle, Henry E. Davis, Theodore  Noyes, of the District of Columbia; Levi P. Morton, William C. Whitiney, of New York; George W. Childs, Brinton Coxe, of Pennsylvania; John S. Lindsay, of Massachusetts; Marshall Field, of Illinois; George F. Edmunds, of Vermont; George W. Curtis Lee, William Wii·t Henry, of Virginia, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Protestant . Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia, with roam. power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and have perpetual succession; to acquire, take by devise, bequest, or otherwise, hold, purchase, encumber, and convey such real and personal estate as shall be required for the purposes of its incorporation; to make and mmm. use a common seal, and the sameto alter at pleasure; to choose a board of trustees consisting of not more than fifteen, of whom five shall constitute a quorum to do business, and which board shall be authorized mmm to iill any vacancies in their number; to appoint such officers and agents as the business of the corporation shall require, and to make by-laws for the accomplishment of its purposes, for the management of 1*~·i•¤•- its property, and for the regulation of its affairs: Provided, however, ` That bishop of the diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America of which the District of Columbia shall or . may form the whole or a part shall be ex omcio one of said trustees A¤¤¤•¤¤¤ ¤f rmr and shall be chairman thereof: And further provided, That no part of °"" the property of said corporation shall bealiened or encumbered without _f_·;*f;•j°*;'·°“·· *°°° the written concurrence of the said bishop of the diocese aforesaid. Said ` corporation is hereby empowered to establish and maintain within the District of Columbia a cathedral and institutions of learning for the Degrees. ¤¤=- promotion of religion and education and charity. The said corporation shall have power to ·grant and confer diplomas and the usual college and university degrees and honorary degrees, and also such other powers as may be necessary fully to carry out and execute the general purposes of the said co ration as herein appearing. A¤¤•¤•*¤°¤*· °*°· Sec. 2. This act may-be amended or repealed at any time by the Congress in its pleasure. Approved, January 6, 1893. January u, 1893. CHAP. 21.-An act authorizing the sale of land in the vicinity of Fort Mitilin on Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 1;:}* lgiggbgg M_ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of YVar and tn0h3Q_ ’ the Secretary of the Navy for the time being are authorized to sell, at such price as may be agreed upon by the Attorney—General and themselves, and convey to the International Navigation Company, a COI'~ poration created under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, subject to such conditions as they shall deem proper for the public interest, the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to so much of the land described in deed by John W. Ashmead and wife to the United States, dated the twenty-eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, being in the vicinity of Fort Mifflin on the river Delaware, lying outside the dike or river bank and eastward of the fort, as will, in the judgment of said Secretary of lVar, the Secretary
 * ·······"‘—···· the river Delaware.