USE OF THE NAME NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, RAINBOW DIVISION VETERANS SEC. 8. The corporation and its State and local subdivisions shall have the sole and exclusive right to have and to use in carrying out its purposes the name National Association, Rainbow Division Veterans.

REPORTS TO CONGRESS

SEC. 9. The said corporation shall, on or before the 1st day of January in each year, make and transmit to the Congress a report of its proceedings for the preceding calendar year, including a full and complete report of its receipts and expenditures. Said report shall not be printed as public documents.

AGENTS FOR SERVICE OF PROCESS

SEC. 10. As a condition precedent to the exercise of any power or privilege herein granted or conferred. National Association, Rainbow Division Veterans shall file in the office of the secretary of state of each State the name and postoffice address of an authorized agent in such State upon whom legal process or demands against National Association, Rainbow Division Veterans may be served.

RESERVATION OR RIGHT TO REPEAL CHARTER

SEC. 11. The right to repeal, alter, or amend this charter at any time is expressly reserved.

[S. 1574, 79th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To incorporate the Reserve Officers of the Naval Services

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following-named persons, to wit: Captain George Piper, United States Naval Reserve, New York; Captain Ronald Chinnock, United States Naval Reserve, Illinois; Captain Sidney W. Souers, United States Naval Reserve, Missouri; Captain Merle Gulick, United States Coast Guard Reserve, New Jersey; Colonel James J. Keating, United States Marine Corps Reserve, Pennsylvania; Commander Eugene Carusi, United States Naval Reserve, Washington, District of Columbia; Commander Thurmond Chatham, United States Naval Reserve, North Carolina; Commander Douglas Fairbanks, Junior, United States Naval Reserve, California; Lieutenant Commander Harry F. Byrd, Junior, United States Naval Reserve, Virginia; Lieutenant Commander B. J. Darneille, United States Naval Reserve, Washington, District of Columbia; Captain Charles Carroll Morgan, United States Naval Reserve, Maryland; Lieutenant Ross Barrett, United States Naval Reserve, Wisconsin; Lieutenant Commander H. C. Beers, United States Naval Reserve, Fort Worth, Texas; Lieutenant John H. Blaffer, United States Coast Guard Reserve, Texas; Lieutenant Francis P. Brawley, United States Naval Reserve, South Carolina; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Carolyn G. Browning, W-V (S), United States Naval Reserve, Washington, District of Columbia; Commander Ernest Burwell, Junior, United States Naval Reserve, South Carolina; Commander Earl D. Chesney, United States Naval Reserve, Washington, District of Columbia; Lieutenant Commander Clark M. Clifford, United States Naval Reserve, Missouri; Captain W. M. Craig, United States Naval Reserve, Minnesota; Commander Freeman Cutter, United States Naval Reserve, Massachusetts; Lieutenant Margaret Dives, United States Coast Guard, Pennsylvania; Lieutenant Robert Erwin, United States Naval Reserve, Washington, District of Columbia; Lieutenant Commander Roger Firestone, United States Naval Reserve, Akron, Ohio; Lieutenant Commander David J. Fitzgibbon, United States Naval Reserve, Washington, District of Columbia; Commodore Paul F. Foster, United States Naval Reserve, California; Commander Joe Gardner, Virginia; Lieutenant Commander C. Leslie Glenn, Washington, District of Columbia; Major Elmer Glidden, United States Marine Corps Reserve, Massachusetts; Commodore James K. Vardaman, Missouri; Commander E. J. Gough, United States Naval Reserve, Pennsylvania; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Edward Hanify, United States Naval Reserve, Massachusetts; Lieutenant Commander Minor Hudson, United States Naval Reserve, Washington, District of Columbia; Commander Harris Kempner, United States Naval Reserve, Texas; Lieutenant Thelma Laird, United States Naval Reserve, New York; Lieutenant Commander Jacob Lewiton, United States Naval Reserve, Massachusetts; Captain Lucy B. Linton, United States Marine Corps, Virginia;

Lieutenant Commander John H. Lumpkin, United States Coast Guard Reserve, South Carolina; Commander J. J. McGaraghan, California; Captain Renwick McIver, United States Naval Reserve, Pennsylvania; Captain Gene Markey, United States Naval Reserve, California; Captain W. L. Nelson, United States Naval Reserve, Pennsylvania; Lieutenant Commander Helena Barry O'Neill, United States Naval Reserve, Washington, District of Columbia; Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Muriel M. Pardridge, United States Naval Reserve, California; Lieutenant H. G. Putnam, United States Naval Reserve, California; Commander Robert M. Reynolds, United States Naval Reserve, Washington; Lieutenant Commander John M. Schiff, United States Naval Reserve, New York; Captain Kirby Smith, United States Naval Reserve, New York; Commodore Lewis L. Strauss, United States Naval Reserve, New York; Captain Katheryn Sullivan, United States Marine Corps, Kentucky; Lieutenant Commander John H. Tolan, Junior, United States Naval Reserve, California; Lieutenant Commander David E. Ward, United States Naval Reserve, Florida; Lieutenant Halsey Barrett, United States Naval Reserve, New York; Lieutenant Commander Paul G. Farley, United States Naval Reserve, Rhode Island; Lieutenant Commander Lowell Lawrence, United States Naval Reserve, Missouri; Lieutenant Theodore Chase, United States Naval Reserve, Massachusetts; and their associates and successors are hereby created a body corporate of the name "Reserve Officers of the Naval Services" (hereinafter referred to as the "corporation").

SEC. 2. That the purpose of the corporation shall be: To promote loyal and unselfish service to the United States of America and to bear true faith and allegiance to its Constitution; to stimulate a continuing interest in the naval services by the men and women Reserve officers and former Reserve officers and to provide a medium through which their recommendations may be expressed.

SEC. 3. Eligibility for membership in the corporation and the rights and privileges of members shall be determined according to the constitution and bylaws of the corporation.

SEC. 4. The persons named in section 1, or their successors, are hereby authorized to complete or revise the orgnaization of the corporation by the selection of officers, the adoption of a constitution and bylaws, and the doing of such other acts as may be necessary for such purpose.

SEC. 5. The corporation shall have perpetual succession and power

(a) To sue and be sued; the corporation alone and not the individual members shall be liable for debts incurred by the corporation;

(b) To take, hold, and dispose of such real and personal property as may be necessary for its corporate purposes;

(c) To accept gifts, bequests, legacies, and devises which will further the corporate purposes;

(d) To adopt and alter a corporate seal;

(e) To adopt and alter its constitution and bylaws not inconsistent with law; (f) To use in carrying out the purposes of the corporation such emlbems and badges as it may adopt;

(g) To establish and maintain offices and branch offices for the conduct of the affairs of the corporation;

(h) To establish, regulate, or discontinue subordinate State and Territorial subdivisions and local units; and

(i) To do any and all acts and things necessary and proper to carry into effect the objects and purposes of the corporation.

SEC. 6. Said corporation and its State and local subdivisions shall have the sole and exclusive right to have and to use in carrying out its purposes the name "Reserve Officers of the Naval Services" and the abbreviated name "RONS" and the sole and exclusive right to the use of its corporate seal, emblems, and badges as adopted by said corporation.

SEC. 7. The right of the Congress of the United States to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expressly reserved.

[S. 1650, 79th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To provide for the incorporation of the National Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, organized 1883, sixty-two years old

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the corporation formed pursuant to the general laws of the State of Illinois, under the name of the National Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic (a corporation not

for pecuniary profit), is hereby converted into a corporation having the rights, powers, duties, and liabilities granted or imposed by this Act, in addition to the rights, powers, duties, and liabilities of the existing corporation so far as they are not modified or superseded by this Act.

SEC. 2. The qualifications for membership in such corporation shall be loyal women, such as are fixed by the constitution and bylaws adopted by the governing body thereof.

SEC. 3. The objects and purposes of the corporation shall be: To especially aid and assist the Grand Army of the Republic and veterans of all wars of the United States of America to perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead; to assist such veterans of all wars and such widows and orphans of veterans of all wars as need help and protection, to find them homes and employment, and assure them of sympathy and friends; to cherish and emulate the deeds of Army nurses and of all loyal women who rendered service to the United States during her hour of peril; to maintain true allegiance to the United States of America; to inculcate lessons of patriotism and love of country among the children and in the communities of the United States; and to encourage the spread of universal liberty.

SEC. 4. The corporation shall have perpetual succession and the following powers: To sue and be sued in courts of law and equity; to receive, hold, own, use, and dispose of such real and personal property as shall be necessary for its corporate purposes; to adopt a corporate seal and alter the same at pleasure; to adopt and alter a constitution and bylaws not inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of any State; to use in carrying out the purposes of the corporation such emblems and badges as it may adopt; to establish State and Territorial organizations and local chapter or post organizations; to publish a magazine or other publications; and to do any and all acts and things necessary and proper in carrying into effect the purposes of the corporation.

SEC. 5. All property of the converting corporations shall be held to vest in the converted corporation without further act or deed. All debts, liabilities, and duties of the converting corporation and liens against the property thereof, if any, shall attach to the converted corporation and its property, and all pending proceedings, if any, against the converting corporation may be prosecuted to judgment against the converted corporation.

SEC. 6. The corporation shall be nonsectarian and nonpolitical and shall not promote in any way partisan principles or the candidacy of any person seeking public office.

SEC. 7. The corporation and its State and Territorial organizations and local chapter or post organizations shall have the sole and exclusive right to have and to use the name the "National Woman's Relief Corps, 'Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic."

SEC. 8. The corporation shall, on or before the 31st day of January in each year, make and transmit to the Congress a report of its proceedings for the preceding calendar year, including a full, complete, and itemized report of its receipts and expenditures, of whatever kind: Provided, That such report shall not be printed as a public document.

SEC. 9. As a condition precedent to the exercise of any power or privilege herein granted, the corporation shall file with the secretary of state of each State the name and post-office address of an authorized agent in such State upon whom legal process or demands against the corporation may be served.

SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect on the filing of an acceptance of its provisions by the board of directors of the converting corporation in the office of the clerk of the district court of the United States for the district in which is located the principal place of business of such converting corporation.

SEC. 11. The right to repeal, alter, or amend this Act at any time is expressly reserved.

[S. 1939, 79th Cong., 2d sess.]

A BILL To incorporate The Military Order of the Purple Heart

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following persons, to wit: Harold H. Hamilton, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Ray Dorris, Portland, Oregon; Luther G. Smith, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Myrl Platt, Detroit, Michigan; Osea V. Phillips, Duluth, Minnesota; Konstant Pinarowicz, Los Angeles, California; Michael Glossinger, New Orleans, Louisiana; George L. McWilliams, Chicago, Illinois; Alfred W. Price, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; John R. McGee, Brooklyn, New York; Adelbert J. Beyer, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin; Joseph Trader, Detroit, Michi

gan; William B. Eaton, Lansing, Michigan; Albert Geiser, Troy, New York; Louis V. Benjamin, Appleton, Wisconsin; Ivan D. Midkiff, Aurora, Illinois; Frank Haley, Washington, District of Columbia; Andrew N. Segal, Baltimore, Maryland; Jerome R. Richard, San Francisco, California; LeRoy E. Smith, Los Angeles, California; Alfred C. Hildreth, Washington, District of Columbia; Ludwig Nachtman, Saint Augustine, Florida; Walter H. Waidley, Aurora, Illinois; Victor E. Shaffer, Cumberland, Maryland; Sigfred P. Hanson, Saint Paul, Minnesota; Eric F. Sturm, Camp Shelby, Mississippi; Robert J. Schmitt, Jersey City, New Jersey; Fred W. Vogel, Collingswood Heights, New Jersey; Elmer Wentworth, Syracuse, New York; Herbert F. Gebhardt, New York, New York; Floyd Dover, Grants Pass, Oregon; Anton D. Kneller, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; George Lytle, Erie, Pennsylvania; Irving J. Davis, Syracuse, New York; Robert U. Neal, Oak Park, Illinois; Joseph McQueen, Kansas City, Missouri; John E. Cassidy, Peoria, Illinois; Forrest G. Priser, Tucson, Arizona; William Wheeler, San Jose, California; Joseph Feingold, New Britain, Connecticut; Peter Mueller, Cicero, Illinois; J. Nelson Werntz, Silver Spring, Maryland; William Garrioch, Gary, Indiana; William Henshall, Sioux City, Iowa; John T. Sullivan, Fall River, Massachusetts; Clement M. Engle, Detroit, Michigan; Herman H. Witte, Saint Paul, Minnesota; Francis J. Maguire, Collingswood, New Jersey; Frank Mullen, Utica, New York; Lester E. Seitz, Dayton, Ohio; Alfred E. Schilt, Portland, Oregon; George Compton, Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Edward C. Rath, Vancouver, Washington; Ronald F. Hill, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; William A. Ellis, Phoenix, Arizona; Alfred A. Barney, Modesto, California; Israel Kaufman, Arlington, Virginia; William Headley, Neponset, Illinois; Wade H. Young, Indianapolis, Indiana; Arthur J. Goetsch, Davenport, Iowa; Gladden Harrison, Shreveport, Louisiana; Goerge M. Leib, Cumberland, Maryland; Marcus Diffenderfer, Allston, Massachusetts; Leonard Keevan, Detroit, Michigan; C. Jack Browne, Newark, New Jersey; Edward G. Ziegler, Buffalo, New York; John H. Hackley, Cleveland, Ohio; James F. Cooper, Scranton, Pennsylvania; Joseph A. Baker, Vancouver, Washington; Walter J. Friese, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Thomas A. Sweeney, Portland, Oregon; Fabian Minton, Atlanta, Georgia; Joe Kallas, Boise, Idaho; Andrew L. Munson, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; D. Webster Halstead, Norfolk, Virginia; Wilbur F. Moore, Louisville, Kentucky; Clay C. Roberts, Medford, Oregon; V. F. Peterson, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Earl L. Moss, San Antonio, Texas; Jake Nurkin, Durham, North Carolina; Frank Nesselhauf, Saint Louis, Missouri; Ernest A. Pubenz, Kansas City, Missouri; Theodore H. Lembeck, Saint Louis, Missouri; Joseph F. Plese, Kansas City, Kansas; Carroll P. Brown, Wichita, Kansas; Samuel J. Hedrick, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Albert A. Borg, Wakefield, Nebraska; John P. Gargan, Bellwood, Alabama; Wheeler V. Henderson, Fayetteville, Arkansas; Edward H. Bergerhoff, Denver, Colorado; Stephen F. O'Shaughnessy, York Village, Maine; Francis A. Peck, Butte, Montana; George L. Campbell, Center Ossippee, New Hampshire; Edgar T. Agnew, Dickinson, North Dakota; Terrence J. O'Neil, Providence, Rhode Island; Willie J. Allen, Leeds, South Carolina; Robert J. McCann, Knoxville, Tennessee; Albert Lambert, Bronx, New York; Fred Carr, Ogden, Utah; Daniel W. Strickland, Moretown, Vermont; William D. Henderson, Grafton, West Virginia; Herbert L. Fields, Sheridan, Wyoming; and their successors, who are, or who may become active members of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, a national organization of members and honorably discharged or retired members of the armed forces of the United States of America, each of whom has been awarded the Order of the Purple Heart by the Government of the United States of America, for distinguished and meritorious services and for wounds received in combat against an enemy of the United States of America, and such national organization, are hereby created and declared a body corporate, known as The Military Order of the Purple Heart.

SEC. 2. The said persons named in section 1, or their successors, and such other persons as are duly accredited delegates from any local chapter or department of the existing national organization known as The Military Order of the Purple Heart, under its constitution and bylaws, are hereby authorized to meet and to complete the organization of said corporation, by the adoption of a constitution and bylaws, the election of officers, and to do all the other things necessary to carry into effect and incidental thereto, the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 3. The purposes and objects of this corporation shall be educational, fraternal, historical, and patriotic, perpetuating those principles of liberty and justice which have created the United States of America, by (1) commemorating all national patriotic holidays; (2) maintaining true allegiance to the Government of the United States of America and fidelity to its Constitution and laws; (3) preserving and strengthening comradeship and patriotism amongst its members; (4) assisting, comforting, and aiding all needy and distressed members and their

dear ones; (5) cooperating with other civic and patriotic organizations having worthy objectives; (6) keeping alive the achievements and memory of our country's founders; (7) ever cherishing the memory of General George Washington, who founded The Order of the Purple Heart at his headquarters at Newburgh-on-theHudson, on August 7, 1782; (8) influencing and teaching our citizenry, old and young, in a loyal appreciation of the heritages of American citizenship, with its responsibilities, rights, and privileges; and (9) preserving and defending the United States of America from all enemies, whomsoever.

SEC. 4. The corporation created by this Act shall have the following powers: To have perpetual succession with power to sue and be sued in courts of law and equity; to receive, hold, own, use, and dispose of such real estate, personal property, money, contracts, rights, and privileges as shall be deemed necessary and incidental for its corporate purposes; to adopt a corporate seal and alter the same at pleasure; to adopt, amend, apply, and administer a constitution, bylaws, and regulations to carry out its purposes, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of any State; to adopt, and have the exclusive right to manufacture and use, such emblems and badges as may be deemed necessary in the fulfillment of the purposes of the corporation; to establish and maintain offices for the conduct of its business; to establish, regulate, or discontinue subordinate State and Territorial subdivisions and local chapters; to publish a magazine or other publications, and generally to do any and all such acts and things as may be necessary and proper in carrying into effect the purposes of the corporation.

SEC. 5. No person shall be a member of this corporation unless he or she shall have been awarded the Order of the Purple Heart by the Government of the United States of America for distinguished and meritorious services and for wounds received in combat against an enemy of the United States of America, while serving in the armed forces of the United States of America.

SEC. 6. Said corporation may and shall acquire all of the assets of the existing national organization known as The Military Order of the Purple Heart upon discharging or satisfactorily providing for the payment or discharge of all its liabilities.

SEC. 7. The said corporation shall have the sole and exclusive right to have and to use, in carrying out its purposes, the name "The Military Order of the Purple Heart" and the sole and the exclusive right to the use of its corporate seal, emblems, and badges, as adopted by said corporation.

SEC. 8. The said corporation shall, on or before the 1st day of January in each year, make and transmit to the Congress a report of its proceedings for the preceding fiscal year, including a full and complete report of its receipts and expenditures: Provided, however, That said financial report shall not be printed as a public document.

SEC. 9. As a condition precedent to the exercise of any power or privilege herein granted or conferred, The Military Order of the Purple Heart shall file in the office of the secretary of state of each State the name and post-office address of an authorized agent in such State upon whom legal process or demands against The Military Order of the Purple Heart may be served.

SEC. 10. The right to repeal, alter, or amend this Act at anytime is hereby expressly reserved.

[S. J. Res. 146, 79th Cong., 2d sess.]

JOINT RESOLUTION For the incorporation of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the organization known as the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, with a membership limited to persons of blood relationship to veterans of the Union Army of the Civil War, 1861-1865, is hereby created a body politic under the name of "Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic" by which name it shall be a person in law, capable of suing and being sued, and of having and exercising all incidental powers of a litigant or otherwise as if it were a natural person, with power to acquire by purchase, gift, bequest, or devise, and to hold, convey, or otherwise dispose of property, real or personal, as may be necessary or calculated to carry into effect the patriotic, educational, fraternal, and charitable purposes of the organization.

SEC. 2. The object and purpose of this corporation shall be to perpetuate the memory and spirit of the patriots of 1861-1865; to commemorate the incidents, deeds, and sacrifices of the Grand Army of the Republic for the preservation of the Union, by the acquisition and protection of historic spots in relation to the Civil War; by the preservation of documents and relics of the Civil War; by inculcating the spirit of loyalty and service in the hearts of the children, the preserva