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STAT.]
PUBLIC LAW
86-32-MAY
26, 1959
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Public Law 86-32 AN ACT To supplement and modify the Act of May 24, 1828 (6 Stat. 383, cli. C X II), insofar a s it relates to the corporate powers of the Sisters of the Visitation, of Georgetown in the District of Columbia.
May 26, 1959 [H. R. 4:Z82]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to thVuit^tion? °' the rights, powers, duties, and obligations granted to and imposed upon ^^°^^ por a t the Sisters of the Visitation (hereinafter referred to as "the corpora- powers. tion"), of Georgetown in the District of Columbia, by the Act of May 24, 1828, entitled "An Act to incorporate the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph and the Sisters of the Visitation of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia" (6 Stat. 383, ch. C X II, Little and Brown's edition), the corporation shall have the power— (a) to appoint a board of trustees or a board of directors, consisting of such number of Sisters of the Visitation, or other persons, as may be desired; and to appoint a president, secretary, and treasurer for the corporation; (b) to create, establish, and operate schools and colleges and departments of learning to be connected with and become a part of the corporation, such schools and colleges to be known as Georgetown Visitation Junior College and Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School and by such other name or names as may be appropriate; and to appoint a dean or principal for each of the same, and such professors and teachers and other personnel as may be necessary or desirable, and to displace any of them, as the interests of the institution may require; (c) to fill vacancies which may happen by death, resignation, or otherwise among such trustees, directors, officers, professors, teachers, and other personnel; (d) to prescribe and direct the courses of studies to be pursued at such schools and colleges; and the branches of the arts, sciences, literature, subjects, and courses which may be taught in such schools and colleges are the following: Philosophy, natural sciences, mathematics, history, belles-lettres, ancient and modern languages, library science, shorthand and typing, and allied subjects; (e) to admit any of the students in attendance at the Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School and Georgetown Visitation Junior College, and such other schools and colleges so established, and other persons meriting academic honors, to any degree in the faculties, arts, sciences, and the liberal professions to which such persons usually are admitted in other and similar schools and colleges; and to issue in an appropriate form the diplomas or certificates which may be requisite to testify to the admission to such degrees; (f) to establish such scholastic boards and offices as may be required for academic operation and direction in education; (g) to enter into affiliation agreements with any institutions of learning, within or outside of the District of Columbia, for the purpose of making available to the students of such institutions the educational facilities of the corporation upon such terms as are mutually agreed upon by each of the affiliated institutions; (h) to receive, invest and administer endowments and gifts of money and personal property absolutely, or subject to payments by way of annuities during the life of the donor, for the maintenance of educational work by the corporation and by any school,
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