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From Title 36-PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONSCHAPTER 707-FREDERICK DOUGLASS MEMORIAL AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
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§70701. Organization

(a)  Federal Charter.⁠—Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association (in this chapter, the “corporation”) is a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia.

(b)  Perpetual Existence.⁠—Except as otherwise provided, the corporation has perpetual existence.

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

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70701

36:4401 (words before “for the following objects and purposes”).

June 6, 1900, ch. 806, §§ 1 (words before “for the following objects and purposes”), 3, 31 Stat. 662, 663.

 

36:4403.

 

This section is substituted for the source provisions for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate executed and unnecessary words. The text of 36:4403 is omitted as executed and obsolete.