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Private Law 72
PRIVATE LAW 72-JUNE 18, 1953
A2T CHAPTER 145
AN ACT Relating to the incorporation of the Columbus University of Washington, District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the /Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the incorporation of the Columbus University of Washington, District of Columbia, under chapter 18 of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby, approved and confirmed except as herein specifically altered. SEC. 2. The number of trustees for the management of said corporation shall not be more than eighteen and not less than twelve: Provided, That a majority of the trustees shall be members of the fraternal order known as the Knights of Columbus; that W. Francis Delaney, George R. Ellis, George E. Herring, George F. Howell, Harold Francis Jones, William E. Leahy, James F. McKeon, Walter I. Plant, Timothy J. Quirk, Michael J. Kacioppi, Manning J. Willcoxon and Thomas Gillespie Walsh shall constitute the original board of trustees under this Act; that the board of trustees shall elect, from among themselves, one member to be president, one member to be vice president, one member to be treasurer, and one member to be secretary of said corporation; that at the first meeting of the board subsequent to the passage of this Act the trustees shall be divided into three classes, the members of the first class to serve for a period of one year, the members of the second class to serve for a period of two years, and the members of the third class to serve for a period of three years; that the said trustees shall serve for the periods mentioned and / o r until their successors are designated, the power of designation being in the board of trustees; that the selection of new trustees and their designation to classes shall be in the discretion of the board of trustees; that the number of professorships which may be established by said corporation shall be left to the discretion of the board of trustees, who shall have the power to establish ordinances and bylaws for the conduct of the business of the corporation, or to alter, repeal, and amend the same, and also power to frame laws and regulations to govern the faculty and students in all departments thereof and to designate such professors and lecturers as they shall deem necessary and with such salaries and duties as the said board of trustees shall deem proper: Provided, however, That no member of the board of trustees, except the president, shall serve in a teaching capacity in the university. SEC. 3. That the said trustees may receive, invest, and administer endowments and gifts of money, and property absolute or subject to payments by way of annuities, during the life of the donor, for the maintenance of educational works by said university, and they shall have all the powers and authority hereby granted to or invested in the trustees of said university by chapter 18, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the District of Columbia. SEC, 4. The said corporation shall adopt a common seal, under and by which all deeds, diplomas, and acts of the said university or corporation shall pass and be authenticated, and the same seal at their pleasure to break and alter, or to devise a new one. SEC. 5. That the funds, moneys, and properties of the corporation shall be held in the name of Columbus University and that the funds or the income of the corporation, or any part thereof, shall be used for no purpose or object other than to promote and advance the best interests of Columbus University.
June 18, 1953 [H. R. 3796]
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