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TEXTILE MUSEUM'S PROPOSAL TO CHANGE ITS NAME TO 
"NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TEXTILE ARTS"

The Board of Trustees of the Textile Museum met on March 29, 1974, and on that date passed a resolution changing the name of the Textile Museu to the "National Museum of Textile Arts."

In order to complete the legal formalities for this name change, the Textile Museum has employed the law firm of Williams, Myers, and Quiggle to amend the Museum by-laws and to register the change with the Superintendent of Corporations for the District of Columbia. These formalities have not yet been initiated.

The District of Columbia Code provides that the name of a corporation
"...shall not be the same as, or deceptively similar to, the name of any domestic corporation...or that of any corporation created pursuant to any special Act of Congress to transact business in the District of Columbia...." D.C. Code Ann. §29-906

It would appear from the foregoing that should it be determined that the proposed name is deceptively similar to any bureau of the Smithsonian Institution, or to the Smithsonian itself as
[[underline]]the[[/underline]] National Museum, the Superintendent of Corporations might, upon our arguing, refuse to allow registration.

In any event, the Executive Director of the Textile Museum has requested a formal statement from the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution as to whether the Smithsonian Institution has any objection to the proposed name, and has stated that he would be willing to recommend that the Board of Trustees of the Textile Museum reconsider their March resolution, if necessary.

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