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desire to donate money lo the organization, we would have a corporate 

 entity that would be responsibile under the law for the safe handling 

 of such funds. Under the law we can hold such funds uj) to the 

 point where the income is not miore than $25, ()()() ,i year. In the 

 District of Colum'hia a eor])()rati()n can take title to real estate, trans- 

 fer property and ch) all necessary things in accordance with its by- 

 laws. We therefore concluded that there could be no objection to 

 incorporating under ^•lch laws. So with the consent of the other 

 members of the committee, 1 ])repared in my office the proper certifi- 

 cate of incorporation wliicli. under the recjiiireiiients of the Code of 

 the District, are as follows: 



Know All Men By These Presents, That we, the under- 

 signed, all of whom are citizens of the United Sttes and a 

 majority of whom are residents of the District of Columbia, 

 desirinp- to associate ourselves for scientific and educational pur- 

 poses L.xid for mutual improvement; and to organize a corpora- 

 tion under sub-chapter three (.3) of the Incorjmration Laws of 

 the District of Columbia, ;is provided in the Code of Law of the 

 District of Columlbia, enacted by Congress and' approved by the 

 Pi'esident of the LTnited States, do herehy certify: 



FIRST: That the corporate name of this company shall be 

 The Northern Nut Growers Association, Incorporated. 



SECOND: The term for which is it organized is perpetual. 



THIRD: The particular business and objects of the society 

 are the promotion of interest in nut-bearing plants, their products 

 and their culture, and, in genera], to do and to perform every 

 lawful act and thing necessary or expedient to be done or per- 

 formed for the efficient conduct of said business as authorized 

 by the laws of Congress, and to have and to exercise all the 

 powers conferred by the laws of the District of Columbia upon 

 corporations under said sub-chapter three (;3) of the Incorpora- 

 tion Laws of the District of Columbia. 



FOURTH: The number of directors of the said corporation 

 for the first year of its existance shall be five. 



IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto affixed our 

 hands and seals this 27th day of September A. D. 1923. 



Karl W. Greene (Seal) 



Albert R. Williams (Seal). 



Thomas P. Littlepage (Seal). 

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