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914 F IFTY-NINTH CCNGRESS. Sess. II. Cns. 1179, 1180. 1907. for said reservation, be, and he is hereby, authorized to deed to the hoard of public instruction of Saint Johns County, Florida, and its successors in office so much of the following-described piece or strip of Government land of the city of Saint Augustine. Florida, bounded nemnpuon. by lines as follows: Commencing at a point north sixty-three derees nine minutes west one hundred and thirty-two and eighty-six . hundredths feet from a stone monument on the boundary line of Fort Marion Reservation, distant twenty and eighty-three hundredths feet east of the city gates and on the production eastward of a line following the north face of said gates, running thence south eighty-two degrees twenty-nine minutes west two thousand three hun red and ninety-three and forty-nine hundredths feet, more or less, to a point north seven degrees thirty-one minutes west one hundred and twenty- one feet from the intersection of the south boundary line of the United States reservation known as “The Lines" with the west boundary of Malaga street; thence south seven degrees thirty-one minutes east ` seventy-tive feet; thence north eighty-two degrees twenty-nine minutes east two thousand three hundred and ninety-three and forty-nine hundredths feet, more or less; thence north seven degrees thirty-one minutes west seventy-five feet to the point of commencement (courses magnetic, variation two degrees thirty minutes east), as the said Sec- §',';':",;,,¤_ retary of War may deem sufficient for school purposes: Provided That said deed shall contain a clause to the effect that whenever said property, or any portion thereof, ceases to be used for school purposes, so much of the same as is not so used shall revert to and become the property of the United States. Appfoved, February 21, 1907. ' F¤b’E`g¤%1jl907· CHAP. 1 180.-An Act To incorporate the National Child Labor Committee. lP·}*>li<=,N¤· 103-1_ Be it enacted by t/ae Senate and House 0 f Rqwesentatives of the United DEQ22h2i ({§’,l'K,§‘bf,'};. States of America in Uongress assembled, That Felix Adler, Francis G. l,:0°;¤£,<;,¤¤>i**°°i¤¤°*· Catiey, Robert W. de Forest, Edward T. Devine, Homer Folks, Wil— xnmimmwm. liam E. Harmon, John S. Huyler, Mrs. Florence Kelley, James H. Kirkland, V. Everit Mac , Edgar Gardner Murphy, Isaac N. Seli - man, Miss Lillian D. Wahl, Paul M. Wai·bur , and John W. Wood, and their successors and associates, be, and diey hereby are, constituted u. 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, ora majority of them, shall hold a meeting and adopt a constitution and by-laws, and shall have power mhuon etc to amend the same at dpleasure: Provided, That such constitution or ’ ’ bly-laws, or any amen ments thereof, do not conflict with the laws of t e 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 necessar for the purposes of the organization. omem. Sec. 2. That the objects of the said co ration shall be: To romote the welfare of society with respect toltlie employment of childien in gainful occupations; to investigate and report the facts concerning chi cl labor; to raise the standard of parental responsibility with respect to the employment of children; to assist in protecting children, by suitable legis ation, against premature or otherwise injurious employ- i ment, and thus to aid in securing for them an opportunity for elementary education and physical development sufficient for the demands of citizensmp 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.