International medical missionary college and training school for nurses / secretary's record of the Southern Medical Training School.

Date:
1904-07
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: International medical missionary college and training school for nurses / secretary's record of the Southern Medical Training School. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    faftefu/sf Tut c/^hl/ *th*^UA'. PETITION FOR CHARTER. STATE OF GEORGIA, County of Fulton. To the Superior Court ot said County:— The petition of J. McF. Gaston, George Brown, Ephraim Smith, Joseph H. Green and B. H. Holt, of said County and State, respectfully shows: ! 1. That they desire for themselves, their associates and successors to be incorporated under the style and name of The Southern Medical Training School. 2. The time for which they ask to be in- corporated is twenty years, with the privil- ege of renewal at the expiration thereof. 3. The object of said incorporation is to establish, maintain and conduct an institu- tion to promote Education, Charity and the Christian Religion, to educate physicians and surgeons and prepare them for medical treat- ment of diseases of all kinds and to fit and prepare medical missionaries for home and foreign missionary work. 4. The purpose of establishing and main- taining said institution is not for pecuniary gain to its members, but is charitable and eleemosynary and therefore said corporation will have no capital stock. They desire the right to receive and educate students free un- der rules of said institution regulating same, and they also desire and ask the right to re- ceive students and pupils and to charge there- for and receive therefrom such reasonable ! -compensation as may be fixed by rules of the I institution, or agreed upon, all of whom ma> be graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine and have all the rights and privil- eges of doctors of medicine; to educate, tit. train and prepare persons, male and female as physicians, surgeons and nurses to enter and work in missionary fields and to do such other things needful in the premises incident thereto to carry out the purposes of said institution, not contrary to law. 5. That said institution may receive b; donations, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise lands, money or other property, real, persona and mixed, which may be given or otherwise acquired by said institution, and to hold, sel convey and otherwise manage or dispose oi same and likewise to purchase, build, lease rent, use and manage or dispose of all lands buildings, machinery and other equipment; necessary for the purpose of said corporation with power to borrow money, issue bonds and to giye mortgages to secure such bonds ot borrowed money, all of which, together vvitl all fees received, shall be used for educa- tional, religious and missionary purposes a> hereinbefore stated and for the maintenance and permanent endowment of said institu- tion. 6. That said corporation shall have the power to make such rules and by-laws to gov- ern said institution as may be necessary, not repugnant to law, and especially for the elec- tion of trustees and officers to govern said in- institution and to provide for their succes- sors, and for the management of said institu- tion in all its departments and for the ap- pointment of executive and governing com- mittees and officers, and to regulate their du- ties and powers, to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, plead and be im- pleaded, to use a common seal and do all need- ful acts and exercise all powers, privileges and immunities incident to such corporations under the laws of Georgia. 7. That they desire the right to graduate and issue diplomas and certificates of grad- uation from said institution, according to law. S. That they may have the right to pro- ceed with the establishment and equipment of said institution, as soon as in the judg- ment of the above named incorporators, such organization and equipment are sufficient to warrant their belief stitution. the ot said and place of bu i be in Atlanta, Fi nd publishing this pi V