Public Law 57–545

That an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate The National Florence Crittenton Mission,” approved April ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Incorporators.

“That Charles N. Crittenton, Franklin B. Waterman, John Joy Edson, Kate Waller Barrett, and Charles S. Morton, and their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate in the District, of Columbia in perpetuity, by the name of ‘The National

Purposes of Incorporation.

Florence Crittenton Mission,’ for the following purposes, namely: To aid and encourage destitute, homeless, and depraved women and men to seek reformation of character and respectability and to reach positions of honorable self-support, and especially to provide for women and young girls who have led profligate lives, or having been betrayed from the path of virtue are sincerely willing to reform, temporary homes and employment until they can be restored to friends or established in honest industry: also to establish homes for working girls; and for those purposes to carry on such homes, industrial enterprises,

Powers.

and such other instrumentalities as may be adapted thereto. Said corporation, through its board of trustees, shall have power to have and use a common seal, to sue and he sued, to plead and be impleaded, to collect subscriptions, make reasonable by-laws, rules, and regulations needful for the government of said corporation and giving effect to the objects of its creation, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States;

Establishment of homes for women and girts

to receive, have, and hold real and personal estate by purchase, gift, or devise, and the same to use, sell, and convey for the reasonable purposes and benefit of said corporation; to receive, have, and hold real and personal estate in trust for the uses, purposes, and benefit of the said corporation in founding and carrying on its homes for women and girls and other enterprises as aforesaid, and the same to use, sell, and convey in accordance with the terms of any such trust or trusts; to employ such officers, agents, and employees as they may reasonably deem necessary for such purposes; to fix their compensation, duties, and obligations, and change or remove them as often as in their judgment the interests of the said corporation may require.

“Sec. 2.

That the number of trustees for the first year of said organization shall be five, namely: Charles N. Crittenton. Franklin B. Waterman, John Jov Edson, Kate Waller Barrett, and Charles S. Morton; and any and all vacancies which may occur in said hoard of trustees shall be tilled by an affirmative vote of a majority of the trustees present entitled to vote at any meeting duly called or set for

Amendment.

that purpose. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act at any time is hereby expressly reserved.”

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