N. P. Chipman, J. P. Newman, B. Peyton Brown, John A. L. Morrell, Mathew G. Emery, Joseph H. Bradley, senior, William R. Woodward, E. Whittlesey, Warren Choate, Andrew B. Duvall, A. S. Solomons, W. G. Metzerott, Alexander R. Shepperd, S. J. Bowen, H. M. Sweeney, Benjamin E. Gittings, William Tucker, Charles H. Lane, W. Burris, William McPheeters, E. F. N. Faehtz, J. L. Gatchel, John R. Elvans, Edgar I. Booraem, L. H. Hopkins, Thomas P. Keene, W. D. Blackford, F. H. Day, J. Sayles Brown, William Lanborn, E. L. Corbin, N. A. West, John R. Arrison, W. A. Farlee, Benjamin F. Fuller, Robert A. Slater, Alonzo Bell, A. T. Kinney, John J. Jett, A. M. Scott, A. C. White, A. E. Newton, A. S. Taylor, William H. Rowe, Robert Reyburn, W. H. Slater, John C. Parker, William J. Wilson, S. S. Baker, A. Jones, S. R. Bond, John F. Cook, D. W. Anderson, George A. Hall, Charles H. Moulton, John Edwin Mason, Allison Nailor, junior, David A. Burr, T. C. Grey, R. H. Marsh, Thomas Perry, George F. Gulick, and Theodore F. Gatchel, all of the District of Columbia, and such other persons as were associated with them in conformity to this chapter, and their successors duly chosen, were constituted and created a body corporate in the District of Columbia, to be known as the Washington Humane Society.
(June 21, 1870, 16 Stat. 158, ch. 135, § 1; Feb. 13, 1885, 23 Stat. 302, ch. 58, § 1.)
1981 Ed., § 32-901.
1973 Ed., § 32-201.
This section is referenced in § 44-1507 and § 44-1511.
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 44 - Charitable and Curative Institutions
Chapter 15 - Washington Humane Society
§ 44–1501. Incorporation; name
§ 44–1502. Society to have certain officers
§ 44–1503. Officers to be chosen from members
§ 44–1505. Police to arrest law violators at request of member; evidence of membership
§ 44–1506. Disposition of fines
§ 44–1507. Provisions effective throughout District
§ 44–1508. Authority to prevent cruelty to children
§ 44–1509. Enforcement of laws by Mayor — Protection of children
§ 44–1510. Enforcement of laws by Mayor — Cruelty to animals