Chapter LXII. *declaring the Construction of “An Act to incorporate the National Theological Institute,” approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and also “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to incorporate the National Theological Institute, and to define and extend the Powers of the same,’” appro
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CHAP. LXII.— An Act *declaring the Construction of “An Act to incorporate the National Theological Institute,” approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and also “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to incorporate the National Theological Institute, and to define and extend the Powers of the same,’” approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven*. April 22, 1870.1866, ch. 79.Vol. xiv. p. 45.1867, ch. 164.Vol. xiv. p. 440. Whereas an act to incorporate the National Theological Institute, approvedPreamble.
May ten, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and also an act to define and extend the powers of the same, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, *has* [have] been misconstrued by an attempt to remove the seat of its operations to a distant locality, in direct[Preamble repealed.1870, ch. 117.*Post*, p. 148.] contravention of said acts; and whereas the following-named persons, Joseph C. Lewis, Edmund Turney, John S. Poler, Charles II. Morse, William T. Johnson, Lindsay Muse, William F.
Nelson, George F. McLellan, Clement Robinson, George M. Condron, S. Alexander, U. II. Hutchins, W. T. Wiswall, S. L. Crissey, continue to exercise their functions as the executive committee, by the authority of said corporation at its seat of operations within the said District of Columbia, according to the intention of said acts: Now, therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Seat of operations of the National Theological Institute and University, to be in Washington, D.
C.Branches may be established elsewhere. That the seat of operations of the National Theological Institute and University, incorporated under the act approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, which act was amended and extended by the act of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, shall be, and the same is hereby, located within the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent said corporation from establishing such branches without the limits of said District as may be now authorized by law.
Approved, April 22, 1870.