Chapter 1475. To incorporate the American Academy in Rome
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CHAP. 1475.— An Act To incorporate the American Academy in Rome. March 3, 1905. [[H. R. 19052](/us/bill/58/hr/19052).] [[Public, No. 208](/us/pl/58/208).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, American Academy in Rome.Incorporators. That Edwin A. Abbey, Samuel A. B. Abbott, Charles Francis Adams, Edwin A. Alderman, James W. Alexander, John J. Albright, James B. Angell, Charles T. Barney, Edward J. Berwind.
Edwin H. Blashtield. William A. Boring, Robert S. Brookings, Glen Brown, Daniel H. Burnham, Nicholas Murray Butler, John L. Cadwalader, Frank W. Chandler, Edward H. 1045Coates, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Frank Miles Day, Albert Dean Currier, William E. Dodge, William F. Draper, William E. Eames, Charles W. Eliot, Theodore N. Ely, Marshall Field, Charles L. Freer, Daniel Chester French, W. M. R. French, Henry C. Frick, Lyman J. Gage, Richard Watson Gilder, Cass Gilbert, Daniel Coit Gilman, Elmer Ellsworth Garnsey, Arthur T.
Hadley, Charles C. Harrison, Thomas Hastings, William H. Herriman, Henry L. Higginson, Charles L. Hutchinson, William M. Kendall, John La Farge, Charles Lanier, Frederick Layton, Austin W. Lord, George B. McClellan, Clarence H. Mackay, Charles F. McKim, William C. McMillan, Frederic MacMonnies, William Rutherford Mead, Frank Millet, S. Weir Mitchell, Charles Moore, Edwin D. Morgan, J. Pierpont Morgan, H. Siddons Mowbray, Frederick Law Olmsted, Francis L. Patton, Robert Swain Peabody, Henry Kirke Porter, George B.
Post, Henry S. Pritchett, Frederick W. Rhinelander, James D. Richardson, Edward Robinson, ElihuRoot, F. Augustus Schermerhorn, J. G. Schurman, Carl Schurz, James Speyer, James Stillman, Waldo Story, Augustus Saint Gaudens, H. A. C. Taylor, S. Breck Parkman Trowbridge, William K. Vanderbilt, Henry Walters, John Q. A. Ward, Henry White, Stanford White, S. O. Warren, Egerton L. Winthrop, their associates and successors, are hereby created a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia by the name of the American Academy in Rome, for the purpose of establishingPurposes. and maintaining an institution to promote the study and practice of the fine arts and to aid and stimulate the education and training of architects, painters, sculptors, and other artists, by enabling such citizens of the United States as shall be selected by competition from among those who have passed with honor through leading technical schools or have been equally well qualified by private instruction or study to develop their powers and complete their training under the most favorable conditions of direction and surroundings.
Sec. 2. That said corporation may adopt a constitution and make allPowers. by-laws, rules, and regulations not inconsistent with law that may be necessary or expedient in order to accomplish the purposes of its creation: and it may hold real estate and personal property in the United States and in the Kingdom of Italy for the necessary use and purposes of said organization to an amount not to exceed one million dollars; and it may adopt a seal. Said corporation shall have its principal officePrincipal office. in Washington, in the District of Columbia, and shall hold its annual meetings in such places as the said incorporators shall determine.
Sec. 3. That no official of the United States shall be eligible to serveDirectors. as director of the said corporation, and when any director shall become an official of the United States he shall cease by virtue of this Act to be a director of the corporation hereby authorized. Sec. 4. That under no circumstances shall the United States be liableNonliability of Government. for any obligation incurred by this corporation. Approved, March 3, 1905.