Chapter CV. to incorporate St
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Chap. CV.— An Act to incorporate St. Ann's Infant Asylum, in the District of Columbia.March 3, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That“St. Ann’s Intent Asylum” incorporated. Theresa A. Costello, Lucy Gwynn, Margaret Bowden, Sarah M. Carroll, Catherine Ryan, Louisa Fisher, and Catherine Shea, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, made a body politic and corporate forever, by the name of “St.
Ann’s Infant Asylum,” for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, an institution for the maintenanceObjects. and support of foundlings and infant orphan and half-orphan children, and also to provide for deserving indigent and unprotected females during their confinement, in childbirth; and by that name may sueName and seal. 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,By-laws. regulations, and by-laws not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States, for properly conducting the affairs of said corporation;Amount of estate. may take, receive, purchase, and hold estate, real, personal, and mixed, not exceeding in value at any one time one hundred thousand dollars, and may manage and dispose of the same, and apply the same, or the proceeds of the sales thereof, to the uses and purposes of said corporation, according to the rules and regulations which now are or may hereafter at any time be established.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* ThatCorporation may retain foundlings and infant children committed to its care, until, &c., said corporation shall be entitled to retain under their care, charge, and restraint, and subject to the rules and discipline of said corporation, all foundlings and infant children committed to their keeping as fully and completely, to all intents and purposes, as if they were regularly indented and bound apprentices to said institution, until said foundlings and infants shall be, if males, twenty one years old, and if females, eighteen years old, or any shorter period that maymay bind them but, place them lor adoption, &c. be agreed upon; and said corporation shall have power to bind them out for a time not to exceed said ages of twenty-one and eighteen years, respectively, as apprentices to learn any trade or business, or to learn to be useful in housekeeping, or may, under terms proper in the view of the said corporation and to be by them stipulated, place them for adoption, or as inmates with any families or persons, said corporation not being restricted in the exercise of their powers of binding or placing out to the District of Columbia; and all such acts shall be in writing, signed by the presidentTHIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 105, 106. 1863.799 of saidAct to be in writing, under seal, and acknowledged. corporation, and sealed with their corporate seal, and signed and sealed by the persons taking said children as apprentices or as aforesaid, and acknowledged by said parties before a justice of the peace in and for said District, and within one month thereafter recorded in the office of the register of wills for said District. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatThis act may be altered or repealed.
Congress may at any time hereafter alter, amend, or repeal this act. Approved, March 3, 1863.