Chapter 20. to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 20.— An Act to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia.January 6, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation. D. C., incorporated.Incorporators. That William Paret, John S. B. Hodges, William Keyser, of Maryland; Melville W. Fuller, Walter S. Cox, George William Douglas, Randolph H. McKim, Thomas Lincoln Casey, John G.
Parke, John M. Wilson, Henry E. Pellew, John A. Kasson, Charles C. Glover, George Truesdell, Edward J. Stellwagen, Alexander T. Britton, Calderon Carlisle, Henry E. Davis, Theodore W. Noyes, of the District of Columbia; Levi P. Morton, William C. Whitney, of New York; George W. Childs, Brinton Coxe, of Pennsylvania; John S. Lindsay, of Massachusetts; Marshall Field, of Illinois; George F. Edmunds, of Vermont; George W. Curtis Lee, William Wirt Henry, of Virginia, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia, with Powers.power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and have perpetual succession; to acquire, take by devise, bequest, or otherwise, hold, purchase, encumber, and convey such real and personal estate as shall be required for the purposes of its incorporation; to make and Trustees.use a common seal, and the same to alter at pleasure; to choose a board of trustees consisting of not more than fifteen, of whom five shall constitute a quorum to do business, and which board shall be authorized Officers, etc.to fill any vacancies in their number; to appoint such officers and agents as the business of the corporation shall require, and to make bylaws for the accomplishment of its purposes, for the management of *Provisos*.Chairman.its property, and for the regulation of its affairs: *Provided, however*, That bishop of the diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America of which the District of Columbia shall or may form the whole or a part shall be ex officio one of said trustees Alienation of property.and shall be chairman thereof: *And further provided*, That no part of the property of said corporation shall be aliened or encumbered without Cathedral, etc., to be established.the written concurrence of the said bishop of the diocese aforesaid.
Said corporation is hereby empowered to establish and maintain within the District of Columbia a cathedral and institutions of learning for the Degrees, etc.promotion of religion and education and charity. The said corporation shall have power to grant and confer diplomas and the usual college and university degrees and honorary degrees, and also such other powers as may be necessary fully to carry out and execute the general purposes of the said corporation as herein appearing.
Sec. 2. This act may be amended or repealed at any time by theAmendment, etc. Congress in its pleasure. Approved, January 6, 1893.