Chapter 1367. To incorporate The Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba
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CHAP. 1367.— An Act To incorporate The Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba. July 1, 1902. [[Public, No. 233](/us/pl/57/233).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That William R. Shafter,Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba, incorporated.Incorporators. J. Ford Kent, and John C. Bates, of the United States Army; G. Creighton Webb, of New York, in the State of New York; Leman W. V. Kennon, Charles Morton.
Samuel B. M. Young, Samuel S. Sumner, Wallace F. Randolph, Joseph Wheeler, Adna R. Chaifee, Alfred C. Sharpe. Philip Reade, and Janies T. Kerr, of the United States Army: John Jacob Astor, of New York, in the State of New York; Hamilton S. Hawkins, of the United States Army; Adelbert Ames, of Lowell, in the State of Massachusetts; Chambers McKibbin and Eugene D. Dimmick, of the United States Army, and Charles Dick, of Akron, in the State of Ohio, officers and members of the council of The Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby, incorporated and made a body politic and incorporate in the District of Columbia by the name of “The Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba,” for patriotic,Purposes. historical, and educational purposes, to record the history and conserve the memory of events of the campaign of the Army and Navy of the United States which resulted in the surrender on the seventeenth day of 662July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, of the Spanish army, the city of Santiago de Cuba, and the military province to which it pertained; and by that name it may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity, and may have and use a common seal and change the same at pleasure.
Sec. 2. Property limit. That the said corporation shall have the power to take and hold personal estate and such real estate, to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, as shall be necessary and proper for the promotion of the purposes of said corporation, which shall not be divided among the members of said corporation, but shall descend to their successors for the promotion of the objects aforesaid. Sec. 3. Constitution and by-laws. That said corporation shall have a constitution and regulations or by-laws, and shall have the power to amend the same at pleasure: *Proviso.*Not to conflict with United States laws, etc.Meetings.*Provided,* That such constitution and regulations or by-laws do not conflict with the laws of the United States or of any State.
Sec. 4. That said corporation may hold its meetings in such places as said incorporators or their successors shall determine. Approved, July 1, 1902.