Chapter 185. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to revive, with amendments, an Act to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia,” approved July 7, 1838, as amended
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CHAP. 185.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to revive, with amendments, an Act to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia,” approved July 7, 1838, as amended. May 24, 1924.[[H. R. 4122](/us/bill/68/hr/4122).][[Public, No. 138](/us/pl/68/138).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the ActDistrict of Columbia Medical Society.Vol. 6, p. 741. entitled “An Act to revive with amendments, an Act to incorporate the Medical Society of the District of Columbia,” approved JulyVol. 18, p. 511. amended. 7, 1838 (Sixth Statutes at Large, page 741), as amended, be, and the same hereby is; amended so as to read as follows:
" “That Doctors George Wythe Cook, William Gerry Morgan, JohnIncorporators. B. Nichols. John D. Thomas, E. Y. Davidson. Philip S. Roy, A. L. Stavely, Henry C. Macatee, E. G. Sibert, J. Russell Verbrycke, junior, A. W. Boswell, Charles S. White, J. A. Gannon, D. S. Lamb, and Virgil B. Jackson, and such other persons as they may associate with themselves, and their successors, be, and they hereby are. constituted a body corporate not for profit, of the District of Columbia, for the purpose of promoting and disseminating medicalPurpose. and surgical knowledge, and for no other purpose, and not for the purpose of establishing a medical school or schools.
“Sec. 2. That the Medical Society of the District of Columbia be,Property holdings, etc. and it is hereby, empowered to own, mortgage, and convey such property as may be necessary for its purposes, and to make such rules and regulations as it may require, and which may not be repugnant to the Constitution or laws of the United States. “Sec. 3. That Congress may at any time alter, amend, or annulAmendment. this Act of incorporation of said society.” " Approved, May 24, 1924.