
From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 36USC130102]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
         CHAPTER 1301--LADIES OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
 
Sec. 130102. Purposes

    The purposes of the corporation are--
        (1) to perpetuate the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic 
    and of the men who saved the Union in 1861 to 1865;
        (2) to assist in every practicable way in preserving, and making 
    available for research, documents and records pertaining to the 
    Grand Army of the Republic and its members;
        (3) to cooperate in doing honor to all those who have served our 
    country patriotically in any way;
        (4) to teach patriotism, the duties of citizenship, the true 
    history of our country, and the love and honor of our flag;
        (5) to oppose every tendency or movement that would weaken 
    loyalty to, destroy, or impair our constitutional Union; and
        (6) to inculcate and broadly sustain the American principles of 
    representative government, equal rights, and impartial justice for 
    all.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1371.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------
           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------
130102................................  36:78b.                          June 1
7, 1959, Pub. L. 86-47, Sec.  3,
                                                                          73 St
at. 77.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------

    In clause (5), the words ``destroy, or impair'' are substituted for 
``make for the destruction or impairment of'' to eliminate unnecessary 
words.
