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[CITE: 36USC70704]

 
     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. 70704. Powers

    The corporation may--
        (1) adopt and amend bylaws for the regulation of its affairs;
        (2) adopt and alter a corporate seal;
        (3) employ persons the corporation considers necessary;
        (4) acquire, own, lease, encumber, and transfer property;
        (5) sue and be sued; and
        (6) do any other act to carry out the purposes of the 
    corporation.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1355.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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70704(1)..............................  36:4404 (5th sentence related    June 6
, 1900, ch. 806, Secs.  2 (words
                                         to establishing bylaws).         befor
e last semicolon), 4 (4th
                                                                          sente
nce related to adopting and
                                                                          alter
ing seal, 5th sentence related to
                                                                          estab
lishing bylaws, last sentence
                                                                          relat
ed to employment authority), 31
                                                                          Stat.
 662, 663.
70704(2)..............................  36:4404 (4th sentence related
                                         to adopting and altering
                                         seal).
70704(3)..............................  36:4404 (last sentence related
                                         to employment authority).
70704(4)-(6)..........................  36:4402 (words before last
                                         semicolon).
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    Clause (1) is substituted for ``by-laws which may be established for 
the government of said association'' for clarity and consistency in the 
revised title.
    Clause (2) is substituted for ``adopt a common seal, which they may 
alter at pleasure'' for consistency in the revised title.
    Clause (3) is substituted for ``such agents and employees as it may 
be deemed necessary to employ'' for clarity.
    Clause (4) is substituted for ``be competent at law and in equity to 
take to themselves and their successors, for the use and behoof of said 
association, any estate whatsoever, in any messuage, lands, tenements, 
hereditaments, goods, chattels, moneys, and other effects, by gift, 
devise, grant, donation, bargain sale, conveyance, assurance, or will; 
and the same to grant, bargain, sell, transfer, assign, convey, assure, 
demise, declare to use, and farm let, and to place out on interest, for 
the use of said association, in such manner as to them, or a majority of 
them, shall be deemed most beneficial to said association; and to 
receive the same, their rents, issues, and profits, income, and 
interest, and to apply the same for the proper use and benefit of said 
association for the objects and purposes hereinbefore mentioned'' for 
consistency in the revised title and to eliminate unnecessary words.
    Clause (5) is substituted for ``and by the same name to sue and be 
sued, to implead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity in all 
manner of suits, actions, and proceedings whatsoever'' for consistency 
in the revised title and to eliminate unnecessary words.
    Clause (6) is substituted for ``and generally by and in the same 
name to do and transact all and every the business touching or 
concerning the premises'' for clarity and to eliminate unnecessary 
words.
