Chapter 472. To incorporate the National Society of United States Daughters of Eighteen Hundred and Twelve
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CHAP. 472.— An Act To incorporate the National Society of United States Daughters of Eighteen Hundred and Twelve. February 25, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, National Society of United States Daughters of 1812 incorporated. That Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, of New York: Mrs. William Garry Slade, of New York; Mrs. Louis W. Hall, of Pennsylvania: Mrs. Edward Roby, of Illinois; Mrs. M. A. Ludin, of New York;
Mrs. Le Roy Sunderland Smith, of New York: Miss Helen G. Bailey, of New Hampshire: Mrs. Alfred Russell, of Michigan; Mrs. William Lee, of Massachusetts; Mrs. William Tod Helmuth, of New York; Mrs. Nelson V. Titus, of Massachusetts, their associates and successors, are hereby created a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia, by the name of the National Society of United States Daughters of Eighteen Hundred and Twelve, for patriotic, historical, educational, and benevolent purposes, the objects of which are as follows:
To perpetuate the memory and—objects. spirit of the men and women who were identified with the war of eighteen hundred and twelve by publication of memoirs of famous women of the United States during that period, and the investigation, preservation, and publication of authentic records of men in the military. naval, and civil service of the United States during the said period; by making the society one of the factors of educational and patriotic progress, and by the promotion and erection of a house or home where the descendants of the zealous and brave patriots who achieved American independence who have need of such a home may be sheltered from the storms of life.
Sec. 2. That the said society is authorized to hold real and personalPowers. estate in the United States, so far only as may be necessary to its lawful ends, to an amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, and may adopt a constitution and make by-laws not inconsistent with law. and may adopt a seal. Sec. 3. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repealAmendment. this Act. Approved, February 25, 1901.