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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1 ST SESS.-CHS. 642, 643-DEC. 31, 1941 thereof, while acting in the performance of their duties, who are authorized by law or by rules or regulations to own or possess any such weapon or explosive. SEC. 3. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter, amend, or repeal any provision of section 4472 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (54 Stat. 1023; U. S . C. 1940 Ed., title 46, sec. 170). Approved, December 31, 1941. [CHAPTER 643] AN ACT To incorporate the Union Church of the Canal Zone. Whereas the Union Church of the Canal Zone is an unincorporated evangelical religious organization which has established and main- tained union churches at various points in the Canal Zone since its organization in 1914, succeeding in that year separate union churches which had been maintained for a number of years pre- viously; and Whereas it has parsonages and church buildings at the following points, to wit: Balboa, Pedro Miguel, Gatun, and Colon; and Whereas the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, a corporation of the State of New York, and the boards of various cooperating churches in the United States desiring to make pro- vision for worship by the adherents of their respective denomina- tions who from time to time reside temporarily on the Isthmus of Panama and who do not desire to sever their denominational ties in the United States have contributed toward the establishment of the Union Church of the Canal Zone; and Whereas the said Union Church of the Canal Zone is not related to any of such denominations in the way of ecclesiastical subordination or subjection thereto; and Whereas it is desired to insure the continuance of the work in which the said Union Church of the Canal Zone has been engaged: Therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asseimbled, December 31, 1941 [H R. 628] [Public Law 391] The Union Church of the Canal Zone, in- corporation. CORPORATION CREATED SECTION 1. The following persons, to wit:,Roy B. Guild, Thomas S. Donohugh, and Frank H. Mann, of New York, New York; Wilson H. Kromer, H. R. Harris, F. H. Hohmann, of Balboa Heights, Canal Zone; N. L. Wine, R. L. Klotz, Leslie Evans, R. T. Toone, of Balboa, Canal Zone; R. R. Gregory, I. W. Metzger, A. R. Campbell, H. V. Rowe, of Cristobal, Canal Zone; A. E. Wood, Fred Newhard, Mrs. G. D. Poole, E. Clark, of Gatun, Canal Zone; N. M. Shaw, E. D. Stillwell, K. C. Simons, L. S. Kizer, of Pedro Miguel, Canal Zone; and L. H. Fourcher, H. I. Tinnin, C. F. Browne, T. N. Etchberger, of Gamboa, Canal Zone; and such persons as are on the date of the enactment of this Act members of The Union Church of the Canal Zone; and their associates and successors, are hereby created and declared to be a body corporate of the Canal Zone, where its domicile shall be. The name of this corporation shall be "The Union Church tN1 ame of corpora- of the Canal Zone". POWERS OF THE CORPORATION SEC. 2. The corporation (a) shall have perpetual succession; (b) may sue and be sued; (c) may adopt a corporate seal and alter or destroy the same at pleasure; (d) may adopt and alter a constitution, 877

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