Chapter XCIX. *to Incorporate the Sisters of the Visitation of Washington, in the District of Columbia.* March 3, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Eliza Matthews, Eleanor Corporators
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Chap. XCIX.— An Act *to Incorporate the Sisters of the Visitation of Washington, in the District of Columbia.* March 3, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Eliza Matthews, Eleanor Corporators.Cummings, Mary O. Stonestreet, Mary Stubbs, Sarah Mitchell, Eliza Snowden, Ann O’Hare and Ann It. Osborn, with such female associates as now are or may hereafter become sisters or lay-sisters of the Visitation, according to the rules and by-laws thereof which have been or which may be hereafter established, and their successors, be, and they hereby are, made a body politic and corporate forever, by the name of “The Sisters Corporate name.
Object and powers of the corporation.of the Visitation of Washington,” for purposes of charity and education; and by that name may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend; may have and use a common seal, and the same alter and renew at pleasure; may adopt and establish rules, regulations and by-laws, not repugnant to the laws of the United States, for properly conducting the affairs of the corlos poration; may take, receive, purchase and hold estate, real, personal and mixed, not exceeding in value one hundred and fifty thousand dollars at any one time, and manage and dispose of the same at pleasure, and apply the same, or the proceeds of the sales thereof, to the uses and purposes of the association, according to the rules and regulations which now are or which may hereafter be established.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That Congress may at any time Subject to alteration and repeal.amend or repeal this act. Approved, March 3, 1853.