Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Charter, Articles of Association, and by-Laws: May 1868
Section 1. Cornelius R. Agnew, Horatio Allen, James W. Beekman, Henry W. Bellows, Francis E. Cutting, John A. Dix, W'olcot Giobs, John C. Green, George Griswold, David Hoad ley, Murray Hoffman, William J. Hoppin, Charles King, Charles H. Marshall, Vflllard Parker, George T. Strong, Jonathan Sturges, Otis D. Swan, Moses Taylor, and such other persons as now are members of an association in the city of New York called. The Union League Club, and such persons as here after shall become members of the corporation hereby created, are constituted a body corporate by the name of the union league club, to be located in the city of New York, to pro mote, encourage, and sustain, by all proper means, absolute and unqualified loyalty to the Government of the United States, to discountenance and rebuke, by moral and social in?uences, all disloyalty to said Government, and every attempt against the integrity of th nation; and in furtherance of these objects, to establish and maintain a Library and a Gallery of Art and Military Trophies, especially devoted to the perpetuation and illustration of the patriotic services and sacrifices by which the twisting struggle against rebellion has been characterized.
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