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 662 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 805,806. 1900. June 6. 1900. CHAP. 805.-An Act To amend section one of the Act of Congress approved Feb- "_"‘““"_ ````‘ ruary twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act to amend section sixteen hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes, making an annual appropriation to provide arms and equipments for the militia." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqoresentatices of the Cmited igimis- States of America in Congress assembled, That section one of the Act of `l'1Ill`l8.1 8.])'pT0pl'lH.-. • tion r¤¤·mms,em. (longress a proved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty- §f’§j§;§;§},’};,,_2,,,,_ seven, entitled "An Act to amend section sixteen hundred and S1Xty· one of the Revised Statutes, making an annual appropriation to provide arms and equipments for the mi itia," be, and the same is ereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:· "That the sum of one million dollars is hereby annually appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of providing arms, ordnance stores, quartermaster stores, and camp equipage for issue to the militia." Approved, June 6, 1900. ` June 6, 1900. CHAP. 806.-An Act To incorporate the Frederick Douglass Memorial and His- -——··—······ torical Association. n Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rgpresentcttires of the United Mg`;j§!g;§¤ket]g°¤,§;:g_¤ States of America in Congress assembled, That Helen Dou lass, Wilciation mlm-p8mma. liam H. H. Hart, Francis J. Grimke, May Wright Sewall, Sdward A. Clarke, their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby declared to be, a body politic and cogporate, in the District of Columbia, with erpetual succession by an 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 Doulglass.— m§¤g?<>¤<>¤¤fi¤¤<>¤’P¤· Second. To collect, col ate, and preserve a historical record of the ' ince tion, progress, and culmination of the antislave movement in the Elnited States, and to assemble in the homestead oxfythe 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 bequest, or other lawful means. Powers Sec. 2. That the said association by and under the name and title aforesaid, and their successors, shall be competent at law and in equity to take to themselves and their successors, for the use and behoof of said association, any estate whatsoever, in any messua e, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, moneys, and otdner effects, by gift, devise, grant, donation, bargain sale, conveyance, assurance, or will; and the same to grant, bargain, sell, transfer, assign, convey, assure, demise, declare to use, and farm let, and to place out on interest, for the use of said association, in such manner as to them, or a majority of them, shall be deemed most benencial to said association; an to receive the same, their rents, issues, and proits, income, and interest, and to apply the same for the proper use and benefit of said ass0ciation for the objects and purposes hereinbefore mentioned; and by the same name to sue and be sued, to implead and be im leaded in any court of law or equity in all manner of suits, actions, and) proceedings whatsoever, and enerally by and in the same name to do and transact all and every] $16 business touching or concerning the prem- C,§d”g,P,§g{°m°“' °* ises; and that after the said association sha have acquired title in fee simple to a whole or a part of certain property situate and being in \