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Honorable Robert S. Calvert, Page 4
Colorado corporation owning and operating hospitals for
Crippled Children throughout the country and providing care
for children of parents financially unable to provide such
care. He states that the Hospitals are administered and
operated on a regional basis and that one such hospital unit
is located at Shreveport, Louisiana, and is known as the
Shreveport unit of Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children.
He states that children from the State of Texas are treated
there and that it is hereby ". . .stipulated and agreed that
the funds and/or assets received by Shriners Hospitals for
Crippled Children from the estate of L. Alberta Watkins will
be expended exclusively for the care, surgery, hospitalization
and treatment of crippled children who are residents and
domiciliaries of the State of Texas at the Shreveport,
Louisiana, unit of said Shriners Hospitals for Crippled
Children wholly without charge;. .."
Attached to the affidavit is a copy of a resolution
adopted by the Board of Directors of Shriners Hospitals for
Crippled Children at a regular meeting held in Miami, Florida,
on June 15, 1961. This resolution provides, in part, that,
among other officers, the Secretary is authorized, directed
and empowered in the name and in behalf of Shriners Hospitals
for Crippled Children, a Colorado corporation, to take certain
enumerated legal steps. Paragraph 3 of the resolution reads
as follows:
"To make and execute all necessary contracts
and documents affecting the property of
Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children,
and other properties of the corporations"
Paragraph 9 reads as follows:
"To make and execute any and all papers
and documents as may be necessary from
time to time to comply with the laws of the
state in which any of the properties of
the corporation may be located for the pur-
pose of protecting and safeguarding the same;"
Paragraph 10 reads as follows:
"To make and execute such agreements,
papers and documents as may be necessary
from time to time to settle any controversies
over the properties of the corporation, or
such suits as may be pending affecting the
properties of the corporation, and as mayOpinion No. WW-1160
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1160, text, October 10, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth267773/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.