Chapter 1445. To amend section six hundred and two of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” as amended
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CHAP. 1445.— An Act To amend section six hundred and two of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” as amended. March 3, 1905. [[H. R. 16989](/us/bill/58/hr/16989).] [[Public, No. 178](/us/pl/58/178).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia Code.Vol. 81, p. 1281, amended. That section six hundred and two of an Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia,” approved March third, nineteen hundred undone, as amended by the Acts approved January thirty-first and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Sec. 602. Benevolent, etc., societies.Reincorporation. Any existing benevolent, charitable, educational, musical, literary, scientific, religious, or missionary corporation incorporated under the provisions of this Act, including societies formed for mutual improvement, may rein corporate or may continue the term of its existence beyond the time specified in its original certificate of incorporation, or by law, or in any certificate of continuance of corporate existence, or may change its name by the written consent of two-thirds of its trustees or directors or other governing board, which consent in the case of a stock corporation shall be accompanied by the written consent of the owners of two-thirds of the capital stock of the corporation.Certificate of officers.
A certificate that such consent or consents have been duly 1013given, containing the original name and the new name of the corporation, if the same has been changed, and the term of corporate existence as continued shall be subscribed and acknowledged by the president or vice-president and by the secretary or assistant secretary of such corporation, and shall be tiled with such consent or consents in the office of the recorder of deeds, to be recorded by him. Upon the filingRights transferred. of such certificate all the rights, powers, property, and effects of such existing corporation subject to existing liabilities shall vest in and belong to the corporation so reincorporated, continued, or renamed.
” " Approved, March 3, 1905.