Chapter 7. Supplemental to the Act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, incorporating the Columbian College in the District of Columbia, and the Acts amendatory thereof
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CHAP. 7.— An Act Supplemental to the Act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, incorporating the Columbian College in the District of Columbia, and the Acts amendatory thereof. January 23, 1904. [[S. 1496](/us/bill/58/s/1496).] [[Public, No. 7](/us/pl/58/7).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia. Columbian College charter amended. Vol. 6, p. 255. Vol. 30, p. 328. That the Act to incorporate the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia, approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, and the amendatory Act approved March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be, and the same are hereby, amended by repealing and striking out of the said charter the following words in lines twenty to twenty five in section one of the said amendatory Act of March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, namely, “Two-thirds of said trustees, andTrustees. also the president of the university, shall be members of regular Baptist churches; that is to say, members of churches of that denomination of Protestant Christians now usually known and recognized under the name of the regular Baptist denomination.” 8 Sec. 2.
That section thirteen of the original charter of FebruaryPersons of any religious denomination made eligible as trustees.Vol. 6, p. 257. ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one. which provides “That per-sons of every religious denomination shall be capable of being elected trustees; nor shall any person, either as president, professor, tutor, or pupil, be refused admittance into said college, or denied any of the privileges, immunities, or advantages thereof, for or on account of his sentiments in matters of religion,” be, and the same is hereby, -reenacted and shall be hereafter in full force as a part, of said charter.
Sec. 3. That power is hereby given to the board of trustees of saidTrustees empowered to change name of university, etc. university to change the name of said university at any regular meeting by a vote of not less than two-thirds of the total number of members of the board, as prescribed by the charter, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Education. That upon said action being taken a certificate, under the seal of the university, stating the name adopted and the date when the name shall go into effect not less than thirty days nor more than six months from the date of its adoption, together with the fact that said mime has been adopted as herein prescribed, shall be tiled in the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, and thereupon, upon the date specified for the name to go into effect, the university shall be known and designated by the name adopted, and by said new name the said university shall be vested with and convey its real estate, hold, control, and administer endowments and gifts of money and property heretofore and hereafter imide for the maintenance of its educational work and do and perform all acts which it now has the power to do under its said charter.
Such change of name shall not in any otherChange of name not to affect rights, etc.Vol. 6, p. 255. way change, affect, or modify in any degree the rights, privileges, obligations, and powers of the said university under the charter of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one. and the amendatory Acts thereto. Sec. 4. That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this ActRepeal. are hereby repealed. Approved, January 23, 1904.