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 278 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 784. 1900. and entitled to protection; and that a distinctive and uniform iiaishall be adopted for hospitals and ambulances, and convo s of sic and wounded, and an arm badge for individuals neutralizedli and Whereas said treaty has been ratified by all of said nations, and by others subsequently, to the number of forty-three or more, including the United States of America; and Whereas a permanent organization is an agency needed in every nation to carry out the purposes of said treaty, and especially to secure supplies and to execute the humane objects contemplated by said treaty, with the power to adopt and use the distinctive flag and arm badge specified by said treaty in article seven, on which shall be the sign of the Red Cross, for the purpose of cooperatin with the “Comité International de Secours aux Militaires Blessés" (International Committee of Relief for the Wounded in War); and Whereas, in accordance with the requirements and customs of said international body, such an association, adopting and using said insignia, was formed in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, in July, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, known as “The American National Association of the Red Cross," and reincor orated April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, under tlhe laws of the District of Columbia; and- - VVhereas it is believed that the importance of the work demands a reincorporation by the Congress of the United States: Now, therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRe resentatives of the United I”°°"P°’°*’°”· States of America in Congress assembled, Tgat Clara Barton, Geor e Kennan, Julian B. Hubbell, of the District of Columbia; Stcwien Barton, of New York; William R. Day, of Ohio; Brainard H. arner, Ellen Spencer Mussey, Alvey A. Adee, of the District of Columbia; Jose h Sheldon, of Connecticut; Charles F. Fairchild, William Letch- ' wertli, of New York City; Hiliary A. Herbert, of Alabama; Joseph Gardner, Enola Lee Gardner, of Bedford, Indiana; John W. Noble, of Saint Louis, Missouri; Richard Olney, of Boston, Massachusetts; Alexander W. Terrell, of Austin, Texas; Leslie M. Shaw, Ben`amin Tillinghast, of Iowa; Abraham C. Kaufman, of Charleston, South Carolina; J. B. Vinet, of New Orleans, Louisiana; George Gray, of Delaware; Redfield Proctor, of Vermont; George F. Hoa1·, of Massachusetts; Charles A. Russell, of Connecticut; Robert W. Miers, of Indiana; Geo$ge`C. Boldt, William T. Wardwell, of New York; Daniel Hastings, J. ilkes O’Neill, of Pennsylvania; Thomas F. Walsh, of Colorado; John G. Lemmon, of California; Charles C. Glover, Walter S. Woodward, Elizabeth Kibbey, Mabel T. Boardman, Walter Wyman, Sumner I. Kimball, of the District of Columbia; Edward Lowe, of Michigan; Harriette L. Reed, of Boston, Massachusetts; William H. Sears, of Lawrence, Kansas; John K. Elwell, of Vinland, Kansas; E. R. Ridgely, of Pittsburg, Kansas; James Tanner, John Hitz, S. W. Briggs, Corry Curry, Lizzie W. Calver, Mary A. Logan, Mary L. Barton, S. B. Hege, and Helena H. Mitchell, of Washington, District of Columbia; Emma L. Nichols, of Chillicothe, Ohio; Lenora Halsted, of Saint Louis, Missouri; P. V. DeGraw, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Walter P. Phillips, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and their associates and successors, are hereby created a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia. uglme °* °°*'P°*°·· · Sec. 2. That the name of this corporation shall be “The American ' National Red Cross," and by that name it shall have perpetual suc- P¤W¢¤$ cession, with the power to sue and be sued in courts of law and equity within the jurisdiction of the United States; to have and to hold such real and personal estate as shall be convenient and necessary to carry out the purposes of this corporation hereinafter set forth, such real estate to be limited to such quantity as may be necessary for oihcial use or office buildings; to adopt a seal and the same to alter and destroy