Chapter 312. For the relief of the Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries
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CHAP. 312.— An Act For the relief of the Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries.March 3, 1927.[[S. 5213](/us/bill/69/s/5213).][[Public, No. 715](/us/pl/69/715).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School, etc. That neither the corporate existence nor the validity of the acts and authority of the Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries, nor of the persons purporting to act as its officers shall be affected by the failure of said officers heretofore to make or to record the making of by-laws or to make a record of the electionIrregularities in procedure not to affect corporate existence of. of trustees, directors, or managers of said corporation, as duly incorporated for the term of twenty years, by the name of the National Training School for Missionaries, November 9, 1894, under the laws of the District of Columbia, as will appear by reference to incorporation book 7, page 1, in the office of the recorder of deeds of said District; nor shall such existence or validity be affected by any insufficiency, irregularity, or defect in the proceedings undertaken to change its name to the Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries, January 4, 1908, as will appear by reference to incorporation book 25, page 285, in the office of said recorder of deeds; nor by any insufficiency, irregularity, or defect in the proceedings undertaken to make its existence perpetual, on November 6, 1914, as will appear by reference to incorporation book 31, page 53, in the office of said recorder of deeds; nor by any insufficiency, irregularity, or defect in the appointment or election of the persons undertaking to act as its officers or trustees subsequent to any of the proceedings above mentioned.
Sec. 2. That Ida H. Goode, Mary Leonard Woodruff, Jane H.Trustees designated. Freeman, May Conant Fruit, William T. Gal fiber, Charles S. Cole, G. Ellis Williams. Maurice Otterback, and Merrill C. Slates are hereby declared to be the persons now constituting the said Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries, a body corporate, with perpetual existence, and they andPowers, etc. their successors are hereby given authority by a majority vote to adopt by-laws to carry out the corporate objects of said corporation.
Prior to the adoption of such by-laws, the persons above mentioned, or a majority of them, shall constitute the trustees of said corporation and shall have full power and authority to perform all corporate acts. Sec. 3. That all things heretofore done or attempted to be doneFormer acts, etc. validated, etc. by the said National Training School for Missionaries or by the said Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries or the persons acting as its officers or trustees, as mentioned or referred to in the first section of this Act, be, and the same, are, in all respects, hereby validated, ratified, confirmed, and approved.
Sec. 4. That nothing in this Act shall be held to limit or lessenNo existing privileges, etc., limited hereby. any power, right, or privilege now possessed or enjoyed by said corporation. Approved, March 3, 1927.