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[CITE: 36USC70702]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
   CHAPTER 707--FREDERICK DOUGLASS MEMORIAL AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
 
Sec. 70702. Purposes

    The purposes of the corporation are--
        (1) to preserve to posterity the memory of the life and 
    character of the late Frederick Douglass; and
        (2) to collect, collate, and preserve a historical record of the 
    inception, progress, and culmination of the antislavery movement in 
    the United States, and to assemble in the homestead of the late 
    Frederick Douglass, commonly called Cedar Hill, in the village of 
    Anacostia, District of Columbia, all suitable exhibits of records or 
    things illustrative or commemorative of the antislavery movement and 
    history that are donated to, or acquired by, the corporation.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1354.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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70702.................................  36:4401 (words beginning with    June 6
, 1900, ch. 806, Sec.  1 (words
                                         ``for the following objects      begin
ning with ``for the following
                                         and purposes'').                 objec
ts and purposes''), 31 Stat. 662.
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    In clause (2), the words ``that are donated to, or acquired by, the 
corporation'' are substituted for ``as may be donated to said 
association or acquired by purchase[,] bequest, or other lawful means'' 
to eliminate unnecessary words.
