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CHARTER 
 
 AND 
 
 CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION 
 
 WITH 
 
 BY-LAWS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital 
 and Training School. 
 
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CHARTER 
 
 AND 
 
 CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION 
 
 WITH 
 
 BY^ LAWS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital 
 and Training School. 
 
 Be it Resolved, That moved by a desire to make fur- 
 ther and better provisions than now exist for the relief, 
 care, medical attendance and treatment of the sick and 
 infirm poor of the City of Philadelphia, and especially 
 the colored element of said city, as well as the necessity 
 for better facilities to train persons to become professional 
 nurses, the following named persons, to wit : 
 
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Jacob C. White, Jr., Levi Cromwell, S. J. M. Brock, 
 Andrew F. Stephens, Henry M. Minton, Lewis G. 
 Gordon, Sarah E. Tanner, Samuel B. Huey, Caroline E. 
 White, Alma G. Somerville, Mary E. Campbell, P. 
 Albert Dutrieuille, William A. Jackson, Nathan F. Mos- 
 sell, Annie T. Nicholson, John P. Sampson, Aaron A. 
 Mossell. Three or more of whom are citizens of the 
 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, have associated them- 
 selves for the purpose of founding and maintaining a 
 Hospital and Training School in said city, and being 
 desirous of being rated a corporation or body politic for 
 the purpose aforesaid, agreeable to the provisions of the 
 Acts of Assembly of the Commonwealth aforesaid, in 
 that behalf made and provided, they do therefore declare 
 the following to be the objects, articles and conditions 
 of their said Association. 
 
 ARTICLE L 
 
 The name of this corporation shall be FREDERICK 
 DOUGLASS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND TRAINING 
 SCHOOL. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 The object of this corporation is to found and maintain 
 a Hospital and Training School for the relief and medical 
 
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attendance, care and treatment of the sick and infirm 
 poor of the City of Philadelphia, and the instruction of 
 those desiring to become trained nurses. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 The members of this corporation shall be the sub- 
 scribers hereto, together with those persons who shall 
 from time to time comply with such terms of membership 
 not inconsistent with this Charter or with the Constitution 
 or laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as shall 
 be prescribed by the By-Laws. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 The business and government of this corporation shall 
 be' directed by a Board of Managers, not exceeding 
 twenty-one in number, and shall be conducted in the 
 City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 The number of the Board of Managers, necessary to 
 to constitute a quorum, shall be prescribed by the By- 
 Laws. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 The Board of Managers shall have power, by election, 
 in which a majority of the whole Board shall concur, to 
 fill vacancies in their own body. 
 
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ARTICLE VII. 
 The persons named in the foregoing preamble shall con- 
 stitute the Board of Managers for the first year. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 The Board of Managers shall have power to make By- 
 Laws, with rules and regulations for its own government 
 and management of the corporation and its work, pro- 
 vided the same are consistent with the Constitution and 
 laws of the United States and this Commonwealth, and 
 the provisions of this Charter. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 The said corporation shall have a common or corpo- 
 rate seal, and by the name, style and title aforesaid shall 
 have a right to acquire and hold by gift, grant, bequest, 
 devise or purchase real and personal estate, and shall 
 also have power to sell and convey the same, and to 
 give and execute mortgages and judgments on the same, 
 provided that the moneys raised by the said mortgages 
 or other incumbrances of such property shall be applied 
 to the same uses and purposes as the said property was 
 originally held for by the said corporation, and provided 
 further that the clear yearly income from any real estate 
 
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to be so acquired by the said corporation sliall not exceed 
 the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 The said corporation shall be perpetual. 
 
BY-LAWS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 BOARD OF MANAGERS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital 
 and Training School. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 The Charter of this Institution is and is hereby declared 
 to be its Constitution. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 The meetings of the Board of Management shall be held 
 monthly, and upon the second Friday of every month. 
 Special meetings may be called by the Secretary upon 
 apv "cation of three members of the Board. Seven mem- 
 bers constituting a quorum. 
 
ARTICLE III. 
 
 Order of Business. 
 
 {a} Call to order. 
 
 [d) Reading minutes. 
 
 {c) Reading bills and communications. 
 
 {d) Report of Finance Committee. 
 
 (<?.) Report of other Committees. 
 
 {/) Unfinished business. 
 
 ig) New business. 
 
 (k) Report of Secretary. 
 
 (/) Report of Matron. 
 
 (7) Adjournment. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 The Board of iVianagement shall make, constitute and 
 appoint of its own members a President, Vice-President, 
 Secretary, Treasurer, Chief of Hospital Staff, Finance 
 Committee, Executive Committee, and a Visiting Com- 
 mittee, all of whom shall be appointed annually on the 
 second Friday of October. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 The Duties of the Recording Secretary. 
 
 The Recording Secretary shall record the transactions of 
 
 the Board and send out notices of the monthly and special 
 
 meetings. He shall sign all orders drawn on the Treasurer 
 
 by the Finance Committee and shall attend to such corre- 
 
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spondence as shall be specified by the Board and Finance 
 Committee. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 Duties of the Finance Committee. 
 
 The Finance Committee shall consist of three members, 
 who shall receive all monies coming into the Institution 
 from its various departments and pay the same over to 
 the Treasurer. They shall apportion the money that shall 
 be paid out to meet the obligations of the Institution. 
 They shall keep the financial accounts of the Institution 
 and shall make the quarterly reports to the Auditor- 
 General of the State. They shall pay out all monies for 
 the Institution, but only through orders drawn upon the 
 Treasurer, signed by the President of the Board, Secretary 
 and Chairman of the Finance Committee. They shall 
 make a monthly audit of the Treasurer's account and 
 report the financial standing of the Institution at each 
 quarterly meeting. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 Duties of the Executive Com.mittee. 
 
 This committee shall consist of five members. They 
 shall plan and arrange for the general interest of the 
 Institution and, when necessary, shall take action during 
 the interim in any matter demanding immediate attention. 
 They shall delegate one of their members to negotiate for 
 the purchasing of supplies for the culinary department, all 
 of which shall be subject to the Board's approval. 
 
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ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 Duties of Physician in Chief. 
 He shall nominate the members of the Staff of Phy- 
 sicians, subject to the approval of the Board of Managers. 
 He shall superintend the Out-Patient and the In-Patient 
 Departments of the Institution. He shall have oversight 
 of the Training School Department, also the Drug Store 
 Department, all of which shall be subject to the approval 
 the of Board of Managers. He shall submit to the Board 
 a monthly and an annual report of each of these several 
 departments. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 Duties of Head Nurse and Matron. 
 
 She shall be elected by the Board annually. She shall 
 have oversight of nurses in training. She shall have 
 charge of the culinary department and the help therein 
 employed, subject to the rules and regulations prescribed 
 by the Training School Committee and the Board of 
 Management. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 The Training School Coniniittee, 
 
 Shall consist of five members, including the Head Nurse 
 and Chief of Staff. They shall pass upon all applicants 
 for nurse training, prescribe the rules governing this 
 department and the course of instruction prescribed for 
 nurses. 
 
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ARTICLE XI. 
 
 The Visiting Committee. 
 
 This committee shall consist of one or more members of 
 the Board, who shall have power to delegate the various 
 Presidents of the Auxiliaries to assist in the work. Its 
 duties shall be to visit the Institution at least once a week, 
 and report its condition and necessities as to the house- 
 keeping departments. 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 Etection of Members to the Board of Managers. 
 
 The membership shall be divided into three equal 
 portions, or as nearly so as possible. One-third of whom 
 are to be elected each year for a term of three years, such 
 elections are to be held annually on the second Friday of 
 October, at which time vacancies in unexpired terms may 
 also be filled. The re-election of those who are derelict in 
 attendance upon regular meetings shall be discretionary 
 with the Board. 
 
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