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| Title: | Formal Incorporation of the Washington Board of Trade |
| Author: | the Board of Trade for the District of Columbia; Terry, S.A. |
| Date: | 12/02/1889 |
Formal Incorporation of the Board of Trade for the District of Columbia, 2 Dec 1889
Document Information
Bibliographic Metadata
| Author: | the Board of Trade for the District of Columbia; Terry, S.A. |
| Title: | Formal Incorporation of the Washington Board of Trade |
| Date: | 12/02/1889 |
| Archive: | Special Collections, Gelman Library, George Washington University |
| Collection name: | the Greater Washington Board of Trade |
| Document location: | Box 1, Folder 4 "Background Documents, 1800 to 1973" |
| Publication location: | Washington, D.C. |
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| Description: | After a few folders that contain clippings of newspaper articles from the Washington Post and the Washington Star proposing a board of trade for Washington D.C. by newspaper editorialists, this document is the first item in the Greater Washington Board of Trade archives that pertains directly to the Board itself as an organized body. This is a reproduction of the legal document that formally incorporated what was then known as "The Board of Trade for the District of Columbia" on December 2, 1889. (It is unclear what became of the original legal document, which was signed by the first twenty-five directors of the Board and then notarized). For all intents and purposes, the agreement to form the Board came five days earlier in a meeting held on November 28, 1889 at the Ebbitt House located at 14th and F Street, NW. This second meeting performs the legal work needed to incorporate the Board formally. This document does two important things. One, it legally locates the Board's legitimacy within the framework of Congressional oversight of the District. On June 22, 1874, an act of Congress abolished the territorial government of the District of Columbia, that included an elected House of Delegates and a non-voting delegate to Congress, and replaced it with Federal oversight. This document states the Board of Trade conforms with the provisions stated in Section 605 of Chapter 18 of the 1874 Congressional act. The Board is making it clear from the start that in the absence of D.C. not being able to elect its own government with the 1874 Congressional Act, they are going to provide the District leadership and quasi-form of goverance. Secondly, it states a twenty-five member group of directors will provide the Board leadership for its first year. |
| Subjects: | Greater Washington Board of Trade;; Washington, D.C. Government;; Board of Trade for the District of Columbia;; 19th Century Washington, D.C. |
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| Date scanned: | 02/27/2006 |
| Person scanning: | Craig Clarke |
| Date converted: | 02/27/2006 |
| Person converting: | Craig Clarke |
| Scanner used: | Fujitsu FI-4220C |
| OCR program: | PixEdit 7 Rev. 7.3.6 |
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