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[CITE: 36USC140102]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
                    CHAPTER 1401--MARINE CORPS LEAGUE
 
Sec. 140102. Purposes

    The purposes of the corporation are--
        (1) to preserve the traditions and to promote the interests of 
    the United States Marine Corps;
        (2) to band those who, on August 4, 1937, were serving in the 
    United States Marine Corps and those who have been honorably 
    discharged from that service together in fellowship that they may 
    effectively promote the ideals of American freedom and democracy;
        (3) to fit its members for the duties of citizenship and to 
    encourage them to serve as ably as citizens as they have served the 
    Nation under arms;
        (4) to hold sacred the history and memory of the men who have 
    given their lives to the Nation;
        (5) to foster love for the principles which they have supported 
    by blood and valor since the founding of the Republic;
        (6) to maintain true allegiance to American institutions;
        (7) to create a bond of comradeship between those in service and 
    those who have returned to civil life;
        (8) to aid voluntarily and to render assistance to all marines 
    and former marines as well as to their widows and orphans; and
        (9) to perpetuate the history of the United States Marine Corps 
    and by fitting acts to observe the anniversaries of historical 
    occasions of peculiar interest to marines.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1379.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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140102................................  36:57a.                          Aug. 4
, 1937, ch. 564, Sec.  2, 50
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 558.
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