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Volume 68

Private Law 83–444

Relating to the merger of the Columbus University of Washington, District of Columbia, into the Catholic University of America, pursuant to an agreement of the trustees of said universities.

Approved June 22, 1954

Statutory text

AN ACT

Relating to the merger of the Columbus University of Washington, District of Columbia, into the Catholic University of America, pursuant to an agreement of the trustees of said universities.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the merger of

Columbus University of Washington, D.C.

Merger into Catholic University of America.

the Columbus University of Washington, District of Columbia, a corporation organized under the provisions of subchapter 1 of chapter 18 of the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia, 1901 edition, which incorporation was altered and confirmed by Acts of Congress approved June 11, 1934, and June 18, 1953, into the Catholic University

67 Stat. A27.

of America, a corporation organized under the provisions of class 1, chapter 18, of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia, which incorporation was altered and confirmed by Act of Congress approved April 3, 1928, be, and the same is hereby, approved and confirmed.

Sec. 2.

The Columbus University shall upon the approval of this

Conveyance.

Act convey its real and personal property, including any trusts or endowment funds which it has or enjoys, to the Catholic University of America, to be used by it for the students thereof to the same extent and for the same purposes that Columbus University and its students have used or enjoyed the same, or for the general purposes of the said Catholic University of America.

Sec. 3.

After the completion of the merger herein provided and

Columbus School of Law.

after the law students presently enrolled in the Columbus University have completed their courses, but not later than June 15, 1957, the said Columbus University shall be dissolved and no longer operate as an educational institution, and thereafter the law school of the Catholic University of America shall be known as the Columbus School of Law of the Catholic University of America.

Sec. 4.

Nothing in this Act contained shall be so construed as to prevent Congress from altering, amending, or repealing the same.

Approved June 22, 1954.

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