Chapter 330. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia,” approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one
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CHAP. 330.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia,” approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one. June 22, 1910.[[H. R. 17871](/us/bill/61/hr/17871).][[Public, No. 239](/us/pl/61/239).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia. Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum. Charter amended. Vol. 6, p. 453.
Incorporators. That the said William T. Russell, E. Francis Riggs, Samuel Joseph Henry, Upton H. Ridenour, junior, and Paul E. Johnson, together with E. Gwynn Gardiner, Walker S. Caughy, J. Nota McGill, Daniel W. O’Donoghue, John D. Marr, Thomas H. Carter, Joseph E. Ransdell, Joseph A. Goulden, Charles Vincent Forties, Wilson P. Malone, and William H. De Lacy, whom they have named as associates with them, be, and they are hereby, constituted and confirmed as a body corporate and politic Rights and privileges. in the District of Columbia under the name and style of “Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum,” with all the rights and privileges granted under said original Act of incorporation and with all the rights and privileges usually incident to similar bodies corporate, and with the right to increase the number of incorporators from time to time as 591 they may deem proper, and to make all needful rules and by-laws for the government of the organization, for the general management of its affairs, and for the control of the institution or institutions under their charge and all property of said corporation not inconsistent with the laws of the United States and this Act.
All the Title to property. property, real, personal, and mixed, now vested in or belonging to Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, incorporated under the Act of Congress approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, is hereby vested in and confirmed to the Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum as reorganized under this Act; and Saint Vincent’s Orphan Asylum may take and hold and sell and dispose of any other property, real, personal, or mixed that it may acquire by gift, purchase, devise, or otherwise for the uses and purposes of its organization: *Provided*, That the net annual income from all of its property *Proviso*.
Income limited. shall not exceed in value the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. Sec. 2. That the incorporators may fill any vacancy occurring in Vacancies. their number by death, resignation, or otherwise. Sec. 3. That the affairs of said body corporate shall be managed Board of trustees. Election, etc. by a board of trustees, five in number, to be elected annually by the incorporators; and said board of trustees shall annually make report to the incorporators, at a general meeting, of their management of the institutions under their charge and of the financial condition of such institution or institutions.
Any vacancy in the said board of trustees may be filled at any time by the incorporators. The number of said trustees may be increased from time to time by the incorporators as they may deem expedient, and, if increased, may again be diminished whenever deemed proper. Sec. 4. That the purpose of this body corporate shall be to maintain Care of female children. and conduct a home or asylum for female orphans and indigent female children under the age of eighteen years, and it shall be lawful for it to receive any such child or children into its institution, with the consent of the parent or guardian, or parent’s guardian, or friend of any such child or children, or of its own volition when there is no parent, guardian, or friend to care for such child or children, and to keep, instruct, and support such child or children, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the by-laws, rules, and regulations for its government and management.
Sec. 5. That any Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act Conflicting laws repealed. are hereby repealed. Sec. 6. That it shall be lawful for Congress at any time to alter, Amendment. amend, or repeal this Act or any part thereof. Sec. 7. That this Act shall not take effect until accepted by said Acceptance by corporation. corporation by writing filed with the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Approved, June 22, 1910.