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 768 FlFTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Gus. 90,91. 1903. of the eleven decennial enumerations from seventeen hundred and ninety to eighteen hundred and ninety, inclusive, that may be in the possession of the Department of the Interior, which transfer shall not _ change the a.llotment of such reports heretofore made to Senators and °°l"°'°’ Representatives; and the Director of the Census is hereby authorized, upon the request of a governor of any State or Territory, or the chief o cer of an municipal government, to furnish such governor or municipal officer with copies of so much of said files or records as may be requested, at the discretion of the Director of the Census, upon payment of the actual cost of makin such copies; and the amounts so received shall be covered into thegfreasury of the United States, to be placed to the credit of and in addition to the appropriation made for the taking of the census. Approved, January 12, 1903. Jmuary 12. 1903- CHAP. 91.-An Act To incorporate the General Education Board. [mmm` N0. mi Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRVgr·esentat¢}vea of the United gm mmm States of America in Ooagress assembled, at William H. Baldwin, mwmcnud. junior, Jabez L. M. Curry, Frederick T. Gates, Daniel C. Gilman, Morris K. J esgp, Robert C. Ogden, Walter H. Page, George Foster Peabody, and bert Shaw, an their successors, be, and they hereby are, constituted a body corporate of the District of Columbia; that the name of such body corporate shall be General Education Board, and that btyuspch name the said persons and their successors shall have succession. °*>9¢°*· 2. That the object of the said corporation shall be the romotion 0; education within she United States o America, without distinction o race, sex, or cree. S°°P°· Sec. 3. That for the promotion of such object the said corporation shall have power to bui d, improve, enlarge, or equip, or to aid others to build, improve, enlarge, or equip, buildin s for elementary or primary schools, industria schools, technical schools, normal schools, training schools for teachers, or schools of any grade, or for higher institutions of learning, or, in connection therewith, libraries, workshops, gardens, kitchens, or other educational accessories; to establish, maintain, or endow, or aid others to establish, maintain, or endow, elementary or primary schools, industrial schools technical schools, normal sc ools, training schools for teachers, or schools of any grade, or higher institutions of learning; to employ or aid others to emplov teachers and lecturers; to aid, copperate with, or endow associations or other corporations engaged in ucational work within the United States of America, or to onate to any such association or corporation any property or moneys which shall at any time be held by the said corporation hereby constituted; to collect educational statistics and information, and to publish and distribute documents and reports containing the same, and in general to do and perform all things necessa or convenient for the promotion of the object of the corporation. P<>w¤¤· gin:. 4. That the said corporation shall further have power to have and use a common seal and to alter and chan the same at its pleasure; to sue or be sued in any court of the United;} States or other court of competent jurisdiction; to make by-laws for the admission or exclusion of its members, for the election of its trustees, officers, and agents, and otherwise; for the casting of votes by its members or trustees by proxy; for the purchase, management, sale, or transfer of its property; the investment and contro of its funds and the general transaction of its business; to take or receive, whether by gift, grant, devise, bequest, or purchase, any real or personal estate, or to hold,