United States Statutes at Large/Volume 32/57th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 336
[Public, No. 39.]
Chap. 336.—An Act To incorporate the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.
District of Columbia.
Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Incorporated.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That George M. Sternberg, of the District of Columbia; Presley Marion, of the District of Columbia; Walter Wyman of the District of Columbia; Nicholas Senn, of Illinois;Incorporators. Jefferson Davis Griffith, of Missouri; John Van Rensselaer Hoff, of New York; Robert A. Blood, of Massachusetts; Leonard B. Almy, of Connecticut; Nelson H. Henry, of New York; J. Francis Calef, of Connecticut; George Henderson, of the District of Columbia; Charles F. W. Meyers, of New Jersey; John V. Shoemaker, of Pennsylvania; Angelo Festorazzi, of Alabama; Edmund C. Brush, of Ohio; Frederick W. Byers, of Wisconsin; James T. Priestley, of Iowa; James Evelyn Pilcher, of Pennsylvania; Marshall O. Terry, of New York; Winslow Anderson, of California; Charles H. Alden, of Pennsylvania; William W. Grant, of Colorado; Robert Harvey Reed, of Wyoming; Thomas C. Clark, of Minnesota; Robert A. Marmion, of the District of Columbia; Miles Standish, of Massachusetts; John C. Wise, of Maryland; George T. Vaughan, of Virginia; Albert H. Briggs, of New York; William C. Borden, of New York; Otis H. Marion, of Massachusetts, and their associates and successors, are hereby created a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia, by the name of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States,Purpose for the purpose of advancing the knowledge of military surgery, medicine, and sanitation in the medical departments of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States and of the militia of the different states, and·to increase the efficiency of the different services by mutual association and the consideration of matters pertaining to the medico-military service of the United States in peace and in war.
Ex officio members.Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service shall be ex officio members of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, and, with the president of the Advisory board.association, shall act as an advisory board to the said association.
Limit of property holdings, etc.Sec. 3. That said association is authorized to hold real and personal estate in the United States, so far only as may be necessary to its lawful ends, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and may adopt a constitution and make by-laws not inconsistent with law, and may adopt a seal and an insignia which may be worn by its members.
Approved, January 30, 1903.