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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 37 STAT. · February 4, 1913 · Chapter 27

Chapter 27. Incorporating the National Institute of Arts and Letters

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CHAP. 27.— An Act Incorporating the National Institute of Arts and Letters.February 4, 1913.[[H. R. 18841](/us/bill/62/hr/18841).][[Public, No. 360](/us/pl/62/360).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated.Incorporators. That Brooks Adams, of Massachusetts; Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts; Henry Adams, of the District of Columbia;
George Ade, of Indiana; Henry M. Alden, of New Jersey; Richard Aldrich, of New York; James Lane Allen, of New York; Simeon E. Baldwin, of Connecticut; Arlo Bates, of Massachusetts; Robert Bridges, of New York; W. C. Brownell, of New York; John Burroughs, of New York; Richard Burton, of Minnesota; Nicholas Murray Butler, of New York; George W. Cable, of Massachusetts; Bliss Carmon, of Massachusetts; Madison J. Cawein, of Kentucky; Robert William Chambers, of Now York; Edward Channing, of Massachusetts;
John Vance Cheney, of California; Winston Churchill, of New Hampshire; James B. Connolly, of Massachusetts; Royal Cortissoz, of New York; Wilbur Lucius Cross, of Connecticut; Samuel McChord Crothers, of Massachusetts; Charles de Kay, of New York; Finley Peter Dunne, of New York; Maurice Francis Egan, of the District of Columbia; Chester Bailey Fernald, of California; Henry T. Finck, of New York; John Huston Finley, of New York; Worthington C. Ford, of Massachusetts; John Fox, junior, of West Virginia;
Horace Howard Furness, of Pennsylvania; Horace Howard Furness, junior, of Pennsylvania; Hamlin Garland, of Illinois; Basil L. Gilder-sleeve, of Maryland; William Gillette, of Connecticut; Lawrence Gilman, of New York; George A. Gordon, of Massachusetts; Robert Grant, of Massachusetts; Ferris Greenslet, of Massachusetts; William Elliot Griffis, of New York; A. T. Hadley, of Connecticut; Arthur Sherburne Hardy, of Connecticut; George McLean Harper, of New Jersey; Oliver Herford, of New York;
Robert Herrick, of Illinois; Ripley Hitchcock, of New York; M. A. De Wolfe Howe, of Massachusetts; W. D. Howells, of New York; Archer M. Huntington, of New 661 York; Henry James, of Massachusetts; Owen Johnson, of New York; Robert IT. Johnson, of New York; George Kennan, of New York; Nelson Lloyd, of New York; Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts; John Luther Long, of Pennsylvania ; T. R. Lounsbury, of Connecticut; Robert Morss Lovett, of Illinois ; Abbott Lawrence Lowell, of Massachusetts:
Charles F. Lummis, of California; H. W. Mabie, of New Jersey; Percy Mackaye, of New Hampshire; A. T. Mahan, of New York; Edwin Markham, of New York; Edward S. Martin, of New York; Brander Matthews, of New York; Saint Clair McKelway, of New York; John Bach McMaster, of Pennsylvania; Joaquin Miller, of California; John A. Mitchell, of New York; Langdon E. Mitchell, of Pennsylvania; Paul Elmer More, of New York; Harrison S. Morris, of Pennsylvania; John Torrey Morse, junior, of Massachusetts;
John Muir, of California; Meredith Nicholson, of Indiana; Thomas Nelson Page, of the District of Columbia; Will Payne, of Illinois; William Morton Payne, of Illinois; Harry Thurston Reck, of New York; Bliss Perry, of Massachusetts; Thomas Sergeant Perry, of Massachusetts; William Lyon Phelps, of Connecticut; A. S. Pier, of Massachusetts; James Ford Rhodes, of Massachusetts; James Whitcomb Riley, of Indiana; diaries G. D. Roberts, of New York; Edward A. Robinson, of New York; Theodore Roosevelt, of New York;
Josiah Royce, of Massachusetts; Felix E, Schelling, of Pennsylvania; Montgomery Schuyler, of New York; Clinton Scollard, of Rew York; Henry D. Sedgwick, of New York; Ernest Thompson Seton, of Connecticut; Frank Dempster Sherman, of New York; Paul Shorey, of Illinois; William M. Sloane, of New York; F. Hopkinson Smith, of New York; Thomas Russell Sullivan, of Massachusetts; Booth Tarkington, of Indiana; Abbott Handerson Thayer, of New Hampshire; William R. Thayer, of Massachusetts ;
Augustus Thomas, of New York ; Frank L. Tooker, of New York; Ridgely Torrence, of New York; William P. Trent, of New York ; Henry van Dyke, of New Jersey ; John C. van Dyke, of New Jersey; Barrett Wendell, of Massachusetts; Andrew F. West, of New Jersey; Andrew Dickson White, of New York; William Allen White, of Kansas; Charles G. Whiting, of Massachusetts; Jesse Lynch Williams, of New Jersey; Harry Leon Wilson, of Indiana; Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey; Owen Wister, of Pennsylvania;
George E. Woodberry, of Massachusetts; Herbert Adams, of New Hampshire; John W. Alexander, of New York; George F. Babb, of New York; Hugo Ballin, of New York; George Gray Barnard, of New York; Paul W. Bartlett, of New York; J. Carroll Beckwith, of New York; Frank W. Benson, of Massachusetts; Karl Bitter, of New Jersey; Edwin H. Blashfield, of New York; Richard E. Brooks, of New York; Glenn Brown, of the District of Columbia; George de Forest Brush, of New York; William Gedney Bunce, of Connecticut;
Daniel Hudson Burnham, of Illinois; Emil Carlsen, of New York; William M. Chase, of New York; Timothy Cole, of New York; Walter Cook, of New York; Kenyon Cox, of New York; Frederic Crowninshield, of New York; William T. Dannat, of New York; Frank Miles Day, of Pennsylvania; Joseph De Camp, of Massachusetts; Charles Melville Dewey, of New York; Thomas W. Dewing, of New York; Frederick Dielman, of New York; John M. Donaldson, of Michigan; Paul Dougherty, of New York; Frank Duveneck, of Ohio;
Ben Foster, of New York; Daniel C. French, of New York; Walter Gay, of Massachusetts ; Charles Dana Gibson, of New York ; Cass Gilbert, of New York ; Charles Grafly, of Pennsylvania; Jules Guerin, of New York; IT. J. Hardenburgh, of New Jersey; Alexander Harrison, of Pennsylvania; Birge Harrison, of South Carolina; Childe Hassam, of New York; Thomas Hastings, of New York; Robert Henri, of New York; John Galen Howard, of California; William Henry Howe, of New York; 662 Samuel Isham, of New York;
Albert Jaeger, of New York; Francis C. Jones, of New York; H. Bolton Jones, of New York; W. Sergeant Kendall, of New York; Bancel La Farge, of New York; Will II. Low, of New York; Frederick Macmonnies, of New York; Hermon A. Mac-Neil, of New York; Carl Marr, of Wisconsin; Walter McEwen, of Illinois; William Rutherford Mead, of New York; Gari Melchers, of New York; Willard L. Metcalf, of New York; H. Siddons Mowbray, of Connecticut; Leonard Ochtman, of Connecticut; Maxfield Parrish, of New Hampshire;
Robert S. Peabody, of Massachusetts; Charles Sprague Pearce, of Massachusetts; Joseph Pennell, of Pennsylvania; Charles A. Platt, of New Hampshire; George B. Post, of New York; Edward Clark Potter, of Massachusetts; Bela L. Pratt, of Massachusetts; A. Phimister Proctor, of New York; Edward W. Redfield, of Pennsylvania; Robert Reid, of New York; F. G. R. Roth, of New York; F. W. Ruckstuhl, of New York; Albert P. Ryder, of New York; John S. Sargent, of Massachusetts; W. E. Schofield, of Pennsylvania;
H. M. Shrady, of New York; Edward Simmons, of New York; William T. Smedley, of New York; Lorado Taft, of Illinois; Edmund C. Tarbell, of Massachusetts; Abbott H. Thayer, of New York; D. W. Tryon, of New York; Elihu Vedder, of Massachusetts; Lionel Walden, of Connecticut; Henry Oliver Walker, of New Jersey; Horatio Walker, of Canada; Whitney Warren, of New York; Adolph A. Weinman, of New York; J. Alden Weir, of New York; Irving R. Wiles, of New York; Arthur Bird, of Massachusetts;
Howard Brockway, of Maryland; G. W. Chadwick, of Massachusetts; F. S. Converse, of Massachusetts; Walter Damrosch, of New York; Reginald De Koven, of New York; Arthur Foote, of Massachusetts; W. W. Gilchrist, of Pennsylvania; H. K. Hadley, of New York; Victor Herbert, of New York; Edgar Stillman Kelley, of Ohio; Charles M. Loeffler, of Massachusetts; Horatio W. Parker, of Connecticut; Harry Rowe Shelley, of Now York; David S. Smith, of Connecticut; F. Van der Stucken, of Ohio;
Arthur Whiting, of New York; and their successors duly chosen, are hereby incorporated, constituted, and declared to be a body corporate of the District of Columbia, by the name of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Sec. 2.Purposes. That the purposes of this corporation are and shall be the furtherance of the interests of literature and the fine arts. Sec. 3.Corporate powers. That the National Institute of Arts and Letters shall consist of not more than two hundred and fifty regular members, and the said corporation hereby constituted shall have power to make by-laws, and rules, and regulations; to fill all vacancies created by death, resignation, or otherwise; to provide for the election of foreign, domestic, or honorary associate members, and the division of such members into classes, and all other matters needful or usual in such institutions.
Sec. 4.Annual meeting and report. That the National Institute of Arts and Letters shall hold an annual meeting at such place in the United States as may be designated and shall make an annual report to the Congress to be filed with the Librarian of Congress. Sec. 5.Property holdings. That the National Institute of Arts and Letters be, and the same is hereby, authorized and empowered to receive bequests and donations of real and personal property and to hold the same in trust, and to invest and reinvest the same for the furtherance of the interests of literature and the fine arts.
Sec. 6.Amendment. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 4, 1913.
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