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 purchase, take, receive, and enjoy any lands, tenements. rents, annuities, rights, or privileges, or any goods, chattcls, or other effects, of what kind or nature soev. ers which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequcathed, or devised unto tieHl, or either of them, as Trustees oi tic, sasd Asylum, by any person or persons, ooaies poiitic orcoporate, capable of mak- ing such grant, and to dispose of ibe sames ffoaaded, The clear annual income of pro- perty to be acquired ny said corporation shall, at no time, exceed the sum of five 1 thousand dollars

 Sec. ;. .and de if further cnoctcd, That the sad corporation, by the name and style aforesaid. be, and shall be hereafter, capa- hle,in law and equity, to sue and be sued !, to plead and De inpleaded, within the Dis trlct oI Columbia and elsewhere, in as ei- ifecfual manner as other persons or cor lporatiens can sue or be sued; and that they shall adopt and use common seal, and the same to use ..altar, or exchange at plea sure; that they may appoint such officers as they shall deem necessary and proper, to assign them theirduties, and regulate their compensation, and to remove any or all of them, and appoint others, as often assthey shall think fit: and the said eorporation shall make such bylaws as may be useful fer the government and support, and for tho general accomplishment of the objects Of the said Asylum, as hereinafter mention. ed, and not inconsistent with the laws of the tinted States. or the laws in force in the Dlstricto of Columbia, for the time be- ing, and the same to alter, amend, or aoro- gate at pIcasure.

 Sec. 4. And De if further enacted, That there shaii be ameeting of the regular an- nual contributors to the support of Saint sincent's Orphan Asylum, in the month of Jnne,in each year, the hour and day and manner of giving notice for which, to be regulated by the bylaws: at which meeting, by those wl.o from the bylaws may be qua iificd to vote, nine female managers shall Dc elected, who shall appoint first and se- cond Directress, and may fill vacancies in their own Board, until the next annual election that their duties shall be regu- lated by the bylaws, and the present ma .nagers may continue in office until the election in June next

 Sec. ,. And De st further enaeed, That with the consent and appreciation of the parent, guardian, or friends, who may have the care of any male or female child, or where child may be destitute of any friend or protector, the same may be re- eeived into Saint Nineent's Orphan Asy- lum, under such regulations as may be made by the bylaws, and there protected i, instructed, and supported :; and they shall not thereafter be withdrawn, or be at lib- erty themselves to withdraw from the Aey- Ii iittiii. sitilotti tire consent or dismissal of the corporation aforesaid, until, if male, he shall have attained the age of twenty one years, or, fla female, the age of eigh- teen years but, up to the ages aforesaid respectively, they shall remain subject to the direction of the said Corporation, un- less tlsey may. by the same, be cxhonerat- cd from service previous to attaining those ages respectively; and the said Corporation shall have the power to bind any child un- der their care, for the purpose of acquiring knowledge of some useful trade, occupa- fion or profession. under such conditions as may be determined by the bylaws, copy of which conditions shall be delivered to, and they shall be binding on every person to whom any child may be so bound that there may also be established, in conncx- ion with Saint yincent's Orphan Asylum, schools for the daiiy yattendance of children whose parents or guardians are or may be unable to pay for their instruction, or whose parents or guardians may:contributc towards the support of the Asylum, under such regulations as may be made in the by laws.

 Sec. And Le a .farther enacted, That any vacancy, which, from death. rcsigna- ton, or otherwise, may happen in the Board ofTrustces, shall be flied according fo the mode to be prescribed in the by laws; that they may hold such meetings as they shall think proper, and, to give form to their proceedings, appoint such of ficers as they may deem necessary, and provide proper checks and responsibilities for the security of the property and funds of the corporation aforesaid; that they shall keep journal of their proceedings, upon which the bylaws shall be recorded; and that they shall make report, at the annual meeting to be held in June. of the affairs and condition of the institution for the pre- ceding year.

 Sec. T. And Dc Il .farflse,- enacfed, That it may be lawful for Congress hereafter to alter, amend, modify, CT repeat the iforcgo- ing act.

 Approved: Feb. Q, 1851. g An act to provide for the adjustment of

 claims of persons entitled to indemnii-

 cation under tho convection between the

 United States and his Majesty the King

 ofDenmark, of the twenty eighth March,

 eighteen hundred and thirty, and for the

 distribution among such claimants of the

 sums to be paid by the Danish Govern

 Inent to that of the United States accor-

 ding to the stipulation of the said con