Certificate, Incorporation of the Anthony Fund

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
of the
ANTHONY FUND FOR THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF WOMEN

BE IT KNOWN TO ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, the undersign-
ed, each of whom is a citizens of the United States, and more than twen-
ty-one years of age, namely: Susan B. Anthony, who resides at Rochester,
in the State of New York; Mary Foote Henderson, who resides in the Dis-
trict of Columbia, and is a citizen of said District of Columbia; and Julia
L. Langdon Barber, who also resides in the District aforesaid, and is a
citizen of the said District of Columbia, desiring to associate ourselves
together as a body corporate for educational purposes, including the in-
provement of ourselves and our associates; we, the undersigned, in pursu-
ance of the laws in force in the said District of Columbia, including the
Act of Congress approved May 5th, 1870; the Act of Congress amendatory
thereof, approved April 23rd, 1884, and that are that are in relation
thereto, that are in force in the District of Columbia, and for the pur-
pose of effecting such incorporation, do sign and acknowledge this certifi-
cate, and herein state, declare and certify the following: –

1.
The name and title of the said corporation, by which it shall be known
in law, is, “THE ANTHONY FUND FOR THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF WOMEN.”

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2.
The term for which said corporation is organized is one hundred (100)
years.

3.
The trustees of this corporation shall have the power, upon the expira-
tion of the present this charter, to renew the same from time to time as may seem to
them advisable.

4.
The particular business and object of this corporation is to educate
the people of the United States into the practical recognition of politi-
cal equality for men and women, and to establish a permanent fund, the in-
come only of which shall be devoted to the promotion of such educational
work, in such manner as the Board of Trustees shall choose, until the
elective franchise shall have been gained for women in all the States and
Territories of the Union; and thereafter, the trustees shall be empowered
to use the income of such permanent fund for the education of women in
political and economic science, either by the establishment of chairs in
various Universities or in such manner as shall seem to them advisable.

5.
The Board of Trustees shall consist of twenty-one persons, elected
for life, to serve without pay, and to be self-perpetuating. All vacan-
cies occurring in their number by death, resignation or otherwise shall
be filled by election at the next regualr meeting of the Board in the same
manner as provided for the elction of the Executive Committee in Article 7.

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6.
The names of the Trustees at the time of this Incorporation:– Susan
B. Anthony; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Anna H. Shaw; Rachel Foster Avery;
Alice Stone Blackwell; Harriet Taylor Upton; Laura Clay; Catharine Waugh
McCulloch; Carrie Chapman Catt; Mary Foote Henderson; Julia L. Langdon
Barber; Anna Garlin Spencer; Mary S. Anthony; Lucretia L. Blankenburg;
Lydia Avery Coonley Ward; Emily Howland; Mary Wood Swift; Lucy E. Anthony;
Ellen Clark Sargent; Emily M. Gross; Emma M. Gillett.

7.
The general officers shall be chosen from the Board of Trustees, and
shall be a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Auditor,
who with two other members elected from the Board shall constitute the
Executive Committee.

8.
Sec. I.
The Executive Committee shall be elected at the regular annual meet-
ing. The nominations shall be made by an informal ballot. The three
persons receiving the highest number of votes for any office shall be the
nominees, and the election shall be decided by a formal ballot.
Sec. II. The Executive Committee may fill and vacancy that may
occur in its membership during the year.
Sec. III. Proxy votes shall not be accepted in the election of
officers, or in the transaction of any other business of the Corporation.

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9.
The Board of Trustees shall hold a regular annual meeting, at such
time and place as it may determine, for the election of officers and the
transaction of business. Special meetings may be called by the President
when requested in writing by not less than one-fifth of the trustees.

10.
The Board of Trustees shall have power to select a Bank or Trust Com-
pany in which to deposit the funds temporarily in the hands of the Treasu-
rer, and may designate such Bank or Trust Company to make such investment
of the funds in their hands as may be deemed wise and proper.

11.
The Treasurer of the fund shall disburse money only upon the written
order of the President and Secretary after they have been duly authorized
by a vote of the Board of Trustees.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF we hereunto set our hands this
—————————————————————1900.

WITNESS:

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, as

On this ——————1900, before me, ———————–
—————— a Notary Public in and for the said ———————
personally came —————————————————————-
———————————-well known to me to be the persons described
in the foregoing instrument, and each acknowledged to me that she signed
the said instrument freely and for the purposes therein mentioned.

Notary Public.
Notarial seal.