Chapter 336. To incorporate the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States
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CHAP. 336.— An Act To incorporate the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. January 30, 1903.[[Public, No. 39](/us/pl/57/39).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Association of Military Surgeons of the United States incorporated.Incorporators.That George M. Sternberg, of the District of Columbia; Presley Marion Rixey, of the District of Columbia; Walter Wyman, of the District of Columbia;
Nicholas Senn, of Illinois; Jefferson Davis Griffith, of Missouri; John Van Rensselaer Hoff, of New York; Robert A. Blood, of Massachusetts; Leonard B. Ahny, of Connecticut; Nelson H. Henry, of New York; J. Francis Calef, of Connecticut; George Henderson, of the District of Columbia; Charles F. W. Myers, of New Jersey; John V. Shoemaker, of Pennsylvania: Angelo Festorazzi, of Alabama: Edmund C. Brush, of Ohio; Frederick W. Byers, of Wisconsin; James T. Priestley, of Iowa; James Evelyn Pilcher, of Pennsylvania;
Marshall O. Terry, of New York; 785Winslow Anderson, of California; Charles H. Alden, of Pennsylvania; William W. Grant, of Colorado; Robert Harvey Reed, of Wyoming; Thomas C. Clark, of Minnesota; Robert A. Marmion, of the District of Columbia; Miles Standish, of Massachusetts; John C. Wise,of Maryland; George T. Vaughan, of Virginia; Albert H. Briggs, of New York; William C. Borden, of New York; Otis H. Marion, of Massachusetts, and their associates and successors, are hereby created a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia, by the name of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, for the purposePurpose. of advancing the knowledge of military surgery, medicine, and sanitation in the medical departments of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States and of the militia of the different States, and to increase the efficiency of the different services by mutual association and the consideration of matters pertaining to the medico-military service of the United States in peace and in war.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War,Ex officio members. the Secretary of the Navy, the Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service shall be ex officio members of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, and, with the president of theAdvisory board. association, shall act as an advisory board to the said association. Sec. 3. That said association is authorized toLimit of property holdings, etc. hold real and personal estate in the United States, so far only as may be necessary to its lawful ends, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and may adopt a constitution and make by-laws not inconsistent with law, and may adopt a seal and an insignia which mav be worn by its members. .
Approved, January 30, 1903.