Volume 29 · 5
Public Law 54–10
To incorporate the Post Graduate School of Medicine of the District of Columbia.
Approved February 7, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
To incorporate the Post Graduate School of Medicine of the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That Henry L. E. Johnson, Edmund L. Tompkins, J. Foster Scott, William W. Johnston, Samuel C. Busey, Charles W. Richardson, James Kerr, Middleton F. Cuthbert, Edward M. Parker, G. Wythe Cook, G. Byrd Harrison, Samuel S.FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 10–12. 1896. Adams, George N. Acker, W. Holland Wilmer, Henry I). Fry, J. Ford Thompson, and Thomas E. McArdle, their associates and successors, physicians, be, and they are hereby, made a corporation by the name of Post Graduate School of Medicine of the District of Columbia, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions set forth in this Act.
Sec. 2.
That the said corporation may hold real and personal estate
Property limit.
to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars.
Sec. 3.
That the said Post Graduate School of Medicine is hereby
Powers granted.
empowered, from time to time, to make such by-laws, rules, and regulations as they may find necessary, and do and perform such other things as may be requisite for carrying this Act into effect, and which may not be repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Sec. 4.
That the said Post Graduate School of Medicine of the District
Privileges, etc.
of Columbia is hereby endowed with all the rights, privileges, and immunities that appertain to other medical schools of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 5.
That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions
Repeal.
of this Act are hereby repealed.
Approved, .