Public Law 75–212

That section 2 of

The Howard University, District of Columbia.

14 Stat. 438.

the Act to incorporate The Howard University in the District of Columbia, approved March 2, 1867 (14 Stat. 438), is amended to read as follows:

“Sec. 2.

That Samuel C. Pomeroy, Charles B. Boynton, Oliver O.

Incorporators.

Howard, Burton C. Cook, Charles H. Howard, James B. Hutchinson, Henry A. Brewster, Benjamin F. Morris, Danforth B. Nichols, William G. Finney, Roswell H. Stevens, E. M. Cushman, Hiram Barbour, E. W. Robinson, W. F. Bascom, J. B. Johnson, and Silas L. Loomis be, and they are hereby, declared to be a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession in deed or in law to all intents and purposes whatsoever, by the name, style, and title of “The Howard

Corporate name and powers.

University”, by which name and title, they and their successors shall be competent, at law and in equity, to take to themselves and their successors, for the use of said university, any estate whatsoever in any messuage, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, notes, bonds, stocks, moneys, and other effects, by gift, devise, grant, donation, bargain, sale, conveyance, assurance, or will; and the same to grant, bargain, sell, transfer, assign, convey, assure, demise, declare to use and farm let and to place out on interest, for the use of said university, in such manner as to them, or a majority of them, shall be deemed most beneficial to said institution; and to receive the same, their rents, issues and profits, income, dividends, and interests, and to apply the same for the proper use and benefit of said university; and by the same name to sue and be sued, to implead and be impleaded, in any courts of law and equity, in all manner of suits, actions, and proceedings whatsoever, and generally by and in the same name to do and transact all and every the ¹¹ So in original. business touching or concerning the premises.”

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