Chapter CXVIII. *to incorporate the Colored Union Benevolent Association.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That Gurden Snowden, CharlesColored Union Benevolent Association incorporated
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Chap. CXVIII.— An Act *to incorporate the Colored Union Benevolent Association.* March 3, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That Gurden Snowden, CharlesColored Union Benevolent Association incorporated. Brown, James Wright, Sandy Alexander, Henry Logan, Charles Wilson, Henry Brooks, John Shorter, Joseph Shorter, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby, constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and title of the Colored Union Benevolent Association, located in the city of Washington, and by its corporate name said association shall have perpetual succession, with power to sueCorporate powers. and be sued, to implead and be impleaded, in any court of the United States or of the District of Columbia of competent jurisdiction; to receive subscriptions, gifts, and benefits, and to make such rules and by-laws as shall be deemed necessary and expedient for the government of the association, and to alter the same, from time to time, in such mode as shall be prescribed therein: *Provided, always*, That such rules and by-lawsBy-laws. shall be in nowise inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States, or with the objects of the association.
The objects of theObjects of the association. association are hereby declared to be to provide for the care and comfort of such members as shall be sick, disabled, or dependent, and of the families of such members, in cases where the proper officers of the association shall deem it expedient, and also to provide for the decent interment of such persons as may die in membership of the association or belonging to the families of such members. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That said association shall haveMay hold real and personal estate, &c. power to hold real estate, or personal and mixed estate, by purchase, gift, or devise, for the purposes of such association and no other, and to536THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 118, 119. 1865. lease, sell, or convey such real estate, or mixed estate, or personal property, as may be devised or donated to such association, and the leasing or sale of which will promote the interests of said association. Sec. 3. Act may be altered.*And be it further enacted*, That congress shall have the right, at any time, to modify, amend, or repeal this act. Approved, March 3, 1865.