sented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:_

SEC. 1. Rutherford B. Hayes, Morrison R. Waite, William E. Dodge,
Phillips Brooks, Daniel C. Gilman, John A. Stewart. Alfred H.
Colquitt, Morris K. Jesup, James P. Boyce, and William A. Slater,
are hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name of
THE TRUSTEES OF THE JOHN F. SLATER FUND, and by that name shall
have perpetual succession; said original corporators electing
their associates and successors, from time to time, so that the
whole number of corporators may be kept at not less than nine nor
more than twelve.

Said corporation may hold and manage, invest and re-invest all
property which may be given or transferred to it for the
charitable purposes indicated in said letter, and shall, in so
doing, and in appropriating the income accruing therefrom,
conform to and be governed by the directions in said letter
contained; and such property and all investments and
re-investments thereof, excepting real estate, shall, while owned
by said corporation and held for the purposes of said trust, be
exempt from taxation of any and every nature.

SEC. 2 Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, shall be the first President
of the corporation, and it may elect such other officers and hold
such meetings, whether within or without this State, from time to
time, as its by-laws may authorize or prescribe.

SEC. 3. Said corporation shall annually file with the Librarian
of this State a printed report of its doings during the preceding
year.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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COLORED EMPLOYES IN WASHINGTON.

There are six hundred and twenty persons of color employed in the
different departments of the Government at Washington, D. C.,
distributed as follows:

War Department 44
Treasury Department 342
Department of Justice 7
Department of State 20
Navy Department 40
Department of the Interior 106 men, 7 women
Post-Office Department 54
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Total 620

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NEWSPAPERS CONDUCTED BY COLORED MEN.

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