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[CITE: 36USC153302]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
  CHAPTER 1533--NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
 
Sec. 153302. Purposes

    The purposes of the corporation are patriotic, historical, and 
educational, and include those intended or designed--
        (1) to perpetuate the memory of the men who, by their services 
    or sacrifices during the war of the American Revolution, achieved 
    the independence of the American people;
        (2) to unite and promote fellowship among their descendants;
        (3) to inspire them and the community at large with a more 
    profound reverence for the principles of the government founded by 
    our forefathers;
        (4) to encourage historical research in relation to the American 
    Revolution;
        (5) to acquire and preserve the records of the individual 
    services of the patriots of the war, as well as documents, relics, 
    and landmarks;
        (6) to mark the scenes of the American Revolution by appropriate 
    memorials;
        (7) to celebrate the anniversaries of the prominent events of 
    the war and of the Revolutionary period;
        (8) to foster true patriotism;
        (9) to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom; 
    and
        (10) to carry out the purposes expressed in the preamble to the 
    Constitution of our country and the injunctions of Washington in his 
    farewell address to the American people.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1424.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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153302................................  36:20b.                          June 9
, 1906, ch. 3065, Sec.  2, 34
                                                                          Stat.
 227.
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    Before clause (1), the words ``objects'' and ``declared to be'' are 
omitted as unnecessary.
