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 GOO FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 23. 1905. of Miehigan· Horace Davis, W. W. Morrow, of California; Daniel C. Gilman, Eu ene Lovering, of Maryland; J. Taylor Ellyson, of Virginia DanieI R. Noyes, of Minnesota; Emanuel Fiske, Marshall Fiske, of Connecticut, together with five other persons to be named by the President of the United States, one to be chosen from each of the Departments of State, War, Navy, Treasury, and Justice, their associates and successors, are hereby created a body corporate and ` politic in the District of Columbia. ¤£f'"° °f °°"°"" Sec. 2. That the name of this corporation shall be "The American with the ower 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 rsonal estate as shall be deemed advisable and to accept bequests for fih; urposes of this corporation hereinafter set forth; to adopt a seal andp the same to alter and destroy at pleasure; and to have the right to have and to use, in carrying out its purposes hereinafter designated, as an emblem and badge, a Greek red cross on a white ground, as the same has been described in the treaty of Geneva, August twenty-see0nd, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and adopted by the several nations aceeding thereto· to ordain and establish y-laws and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof, and general] to do all such acts and things (including the establishment of regulhtions for the election of associates and successors) as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Act and promote the purposes of said organization; and the corporation hereby created is desi ated as the organization which is authorized to act in matters of reliizf under said treaty. In accordance with article seven of the treaty, the delivery of the brassard allowed for individuals neutralized in time of war shall be left to military authorit. . ‘ "`“'P°'°'· Sec. 3. That the purposes of this corporation are and shall be- First. To furnish vo unteer aid to the sick and wounded of armies in time of war, in accordance with the spirit and conditions of the conference of Geneva of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and also of the treaty of the Red Cross, or the treaty of Geneva, of August twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to which the United States of America gave its adhesion on March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. Second. And for said purposes to perform all the duties devolved upon a national society by each nation which has acceded to said treaty. Third. To succeed to all the rights and property which have been hitherto held and to all the duties which have heretofore been erformed by the American National Red Cross as a corporation chil incorporated by Act of Congress June sixth, nineteen hundred, which Act is hereby repealed and the organization created thereby is hereby dissolved. ‘ Fourth. To act in matters of voluntary relief and in accord with the military and naval authorities as a medium of communication between the people of the United States of America and their Army and Navy, and to act in such matters between similar national societies of other governments through the "Comité International de Secours," and the ovemment and the people and the Army and Navy of the United States of America. Fifth. And to continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same_ in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, hoods, and other great national calamities, an to devise and carry on measures for preventing theé same. Tha d h Q¤¤!¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¢.·>f 1:0. 4. t from an after the ssa e of this Act it shall be iii5m' m" mma` unlawful for any person within the idrisdiction of the United States
 * ’°"°”· National Red Cross," and by that name shall have perpetual succession,