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 162 F lFTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 207 5. 1905. Bi? CHAP. 2075.-An Act To incorporate The Edes Home. Te{tii{nKHoT Be it enacted by the Senate amt Ilouse ofRq1resentattves of the. United DistrictofColumbia. States of America in Ozmgress assevndlea', That George L. Nicolson, c0'§`,*}§,§,‘;§“f H°“‘“ ‘“‘ Albion K. Parris, R. Douglas Simms, Robert D._ Weaw*e1·, Archibald 1¤¢>¤¤1><>¤¤>¤· Greenlees, Edward F. Locker, and George A. King, all residents of that i rtion of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, which:)on the tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninet -tive, constituted the city of Georgetown, in the said District, and their successors, from the aforesaid portion of the said city of Washington, to be supplied in the manner hereinafter directed, be, and they are hereby, created and declared to be a body §{';,§‘,‘§;_ politic and cor rate in the District of Columbia, by the name, style, and title of "The Edes Home," and by that name to have perpetual succession, to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to 0b5¤¤¢- implead and be impleaded, and to erectand forever maintain and support, in the said portion of the said city of Washington, a home for aged and indigent widows residing, or to reside, within the said portion of the said city of Washington; and the said home shall be forever exempt from the control of any particular religious sect or persuasion. h0’;f,'i:1*Sfs‘§,cP’°P°”Y Sec. 2. That the said corporation may acquire, take, receive, invest, ' Y reinvest, and dispose of property of every nature whatever for the use N°°'-'*“bl°· and benefit of the said home. The property held by the said corporation actually and exclusively used and occupied for the home provided in section one of this Act shall while and as long as so actually and exclusively used and occupied, be free from any tax, burden, or assessment, laid or to be laid by the United States or under any authority emanating therefrom. P°"°”· Sec. 3. That the said corporation shall have power to adopt a common seal, and to break and alter the same at pleasure; to supply vacancies occurring in the membership) of the said corporation from male pprsons residing or to reside wit in the said portion of the said city of ashington; to appoint a president, secretary, treasurer, and such other officers as the said corporation may deem necessary, and define the duties and tix the compensations or emoluments of such president, secretary, treasurer, and other officers; to detern1ine how many and what particular persons of those qualified for admission into the said home shall be actually received therein; to exclude at pleasure from said home any person who shall have been admitted thereto as an inmate thereof; to make, ordain, establish, and execute all such ordinances and by-laws, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as the said corporation may deem needful in the interests of the said home; and to (provide for the abrogation, alteration. or amendment of any of said or inances or by~laws, whether by a majority, for the time being, of the members of the said corporation or by a fixed number or proportion exceeding a majority of the whole number of members of which the said corporation may lawfully consist, but the provision in such latter case shall itself be iirst adopted by the like fixed number or proportion exceeding a majority of the whole number of members of, which the said corporation may lawfully exist: _ m·‘};‘;;*Q,B;§d*€m°"' _ Sec. 4. That the said corporation shall cause to be printed and published on three successive days, Sunday exclusive, of the mont of May in each and every year, in some morning newspaper printed and published in the said city of Washington and possessing the largest or next largest general circulation therein, a true and correct statement, under the seal of the said corporation and attested by the signatures of the majority. for the time being, of the members of the said corporation, setting forth the number of widows residing in the said ionic, as free inmates thereof, at the date of such statement, and the number departed therefrom. through death or other cause. since the publication of any next previous like statement by the said corpora-