Chapter 860. Granting a charter to the General Federation of Women’s Clubs
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CHAP. 860.— An Act Granting a charter to the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. March 3, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.General Federation of Women’s Clubs incorporated.—incorporators. That Mrs. Rebecca D. Lowe, Atlanta. Georgia; Mrs. Dimies T. S. Denison. New York, New York; Miss Margaret J. Evans, Northfield. Minnesota: Mrs. Emma A. Fox, Detroit. Michigan; Mrs. George W.
Kendrick, junior, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Emma M. Van Vechten, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; 1439Mrs. George H. Noyes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Mrs. Edward L. Buchwalter, Springfield, Ohio: Mrs. William J. Christie. Butte, Montana: Mrs. William T. Coad, Rapid City. South Dakota: Mrs. Laura Rock-well Priddy, Wichita. Kansas: Mrs. Frank Sherwin Streeter, Concord, New Hampshire: Mrs. Anna D. West, Somerville, Massachusetts; Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, Indiana: Mrs. Lucia E. Blount, Washington, District of Columbia:
Mrs. Ralph Trautman. New York: Mrs. John L. McNeil, Colorado; Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood. Washington, District of Columbia: Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Indiana: Mrs. J. C. Croly, New York; Miss Mary V. Temple, Tennessee; Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, California: Mrs. Kate Tannett Woods, Massachusetts: Mrs. Julia Plato Harvey, Illinois; Mrs. Jane O. Cooper, Colorado: Mrs. Harriet H. Robinson, Massachusetts; Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin. Illinois; Mrs. Mary E. Mumford, Pennsylvania: Mrs. C. P. Barnes, Kentucky;
Mrs. Philip N. Moore, Missouri: Mrs. Alice Ives Breed. Massachusetts; Mrs. Frank Trumbull, Colorado; Miss Annie Laws, Ohio: Mrs. Sarah S. PlattDecker, Colorado: Mrs. J. C. Royle, Utah; Josephine Bates, Mary Rogers, Octavia W. Bates. Fanny Purdy Palmer. Julia Ward Howe, Cordelia I. Sterling. Katherine Nobles, Mary D. Steele, and their associates and successors, are hereby created a body corporate and politic, of the District of Columbia, by the name, style, and title of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, for educational, industrial, philanthropic, literary,—purposes. artistic, and scientific culture, and to bring into communication with one another the various Women’s Clubs throughout the world, with power in said corporation to make and use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure.
Sec. 2. That said corporation is authorized to acquire, by devise,Limit real estate holdings, etc. bequest, or otherwise, hold, purchase, and convey, such real and personal estate as shall or may be required for the purposes of its incorporation, not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, with authority in said corporation, should it be by it deemed necessary so to do, to mortgage or otherwise incumber the real estate which it may hereafter own or acquire, and may give therefor such evidences of indebtedness as such corporation may decide upon.
Sec. 3. That said corporation shall have a constitution and may adoptGeneral powers. and make by-laws for the admission and qualifications of members, the management of its property, and the regulation of its affairs, and shall have the power to amend said constitution and by-laws at pleasure. Said corporation shall have its headquarters at Washington, in the District of Columbia. Approved, March 3, 1901.