Chapter 116. To incorporate the National Florence Crittenton Mission
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CHAP. 116.— An Act To incorporate the National Florence Crittenton Mission. April 9, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * District of Columbia.National Florence Crittenton Mission.Incorporation of. That Charles N. Crittenton, Franklin B. Waterman, Wager Swayne, Kate Waller Barrett, and Charles S. Morton, and their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate in the District of Columbia for the period of twenty years from and after March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, by the name of “The National Florence Crittenton Purposes of incorporation.Mission,” for the following purposes, namely:
To aid and encourage destitute, homeless, and depraved women and men to seek reformation of character and respectability and to reach positions of honorable selfsupport, and especially to provide for women and young girls who have led profligate lives, or having been betrayed from the path of virtue are sincerely willing to reform, temporary homes and employment until they can be restored to friends or established in honest industry; also to establish homes for working girls, and for those purposes to carry on such homes, industrial enterprises, and such other instrumentalities as Powers.may be adapted thereto.
Said corporation, through its board of trustees, shall have power to have and use a common seal, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded in any court of the United States, to collect subscriptions, make reasonable by-laws, rules, and regulations needful for the government of said corporation and giving effect to the objects of its creation not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States; to receive, have, and hold real and personal estate by purchase, gift, or devise, and the same to use, sell, and convey for the reasonable purposes and benefit of said corporation; to employ such officers, agents, and employees as they may reasonably deem necessary for such purposes; fix their compensation, duties, and obligations, and change or remove them as often as in their judgment the interests of the said corporation may require.
Sec. 2. Board of trustees. That the number of trustees for the first year of said organization shall be five, namely, Charles N. Crittenton, Franklin B. Waterman, Wager Swayne, Kate Waller Barrett, and Charles S. Morton; and —vacancies.any and all vacancies which may occur in said board of trustees shall be filled by an affirmative vote of a majority of the trustees present entitled to vote at any meeting duly called or set for that purpose. The Amendment.right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act at any time is hereby expressly reserved.
Approved, April 9, 1898.