Hospitals & Asylums

Chapter 5 Columbia Institution or the Deaf

§231 Establishment and Powers

The corporation created by the Act of February 16, 1857, under the name of the “Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind”, shall have perpetual succession, and be capable to take, hold, and enjoy lands, tenements, hereditaments, and personal property, to use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure. But no real or personal property shall be held by the corporation, except such as may be necessary to the maintenance and efficient management of the institution.

(R.S. §4859; Feb. 16, 18547, ch. 46, §1, 11 Stat. 1621; Transferred and repealed by acts Aug. 6, 1946, ch. 770, §1(61), 60 Stat. 871; June 18, 1954, ch. 324, §9, 68 Stat. 267; Dec. 24, 1970, Pub. L. 91–587, §5, 84 Stat. 1579; Sections 231 to 250, relating to Columbia Institution for the Deaf, were transferred to sections 31–1001 to 31–1020 of the District of Columbia Code; the Columbia Institution for the Deaf was redesignated Gallaudet College by act June 18, 1954, and thereafter redesignated Gallaudet University by Pub. L. 99–371, title I, §101(a), Aug. 4, 1986, 100 Stat. 781, which is classified to subchapter I (§4301 et seq.) of chapter 55 of Title 20, Education)