Chapter 1180. To incorporate the National Child Labor Committee
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CHAP. 1180.— An Act To incorporate the National Child Labor Committee. February 21, 1907. [[S. 6364](/us/bill/59/s/6364).] [[Public, No. 103](/us/pl/59/103)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.National Child Labor Committee incorporated.Incorporators. That Felix Adler, Francis G. Caffey, Robert W. de Forest, Edward T. Devine, Homer Folks, William E. Harmon, John S. Huyler, Mrs. Florence Kelley, James H.
Kirkland, V. Everit Macy, Edgar Gardner Murphy, Isaac N. Seligman, Miss Lillian D. Wald, Paul M. Warburg, and John W. Wood, and their successors and associates, be. and they hereby are, constituted a body corporate of the District of Columbia; that the name of such body corporate shall be National Child Labor Committee, and that by such name the said persons, or a majority of them, shall hold a meeting and adopt a constitution and by-laws, *Proviso*. Constitution, etc.and shall have power to amend the same at pleasure: *Provided*, That such constitution or by-laws, or any amendments thereof, do not conflict with the laws of the United States; and that they may use a common seal and alter and change the same at pleasure, and may take, receive, hold, and convey real and personal estate necessary for the purposes of the organization.
Sec. 2. Objects. That the objects of the said corporation shall be: To promote the welfare of society with respect to the employment of children in gainful occupations; to investigate and report the facts concerning child labor; to raise the standard of parental responsibility with respect to the employment of children; to assist in protecting children, by suitable legislation, against premature or otherwise injurious employment, and thus to aid in securing for them an opportunity for elementary education and physical development sufficient for the demands of citizenship and the requirements of industrial efficiency; to aid in promoting the enforcement of laws relating to child labor; to coordinate, unify, and supplement the work of State or local child-labor committees, and encourage the formation of such committees where they do not exist. 915 Sec. 3.
That said corporation shall have a right to hold its meetingsMeetings. at any place in the United States as may be best suited or most advantageous for the carrying out of the purposes for which this corporation is formed. Sec. 4. That said corporation shall not engage in any business forRestriction. gain, the purposes of said corporation being educational and philanthropic. Sec. 5. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 21, 1907.