Manual. 301 



CHARTER 



OP THE 



SOCIETY FOE, THE PROMOTION OF AGRICUL- 

 TURE, ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. 



An Act to incorporate the Society, instituted in the State of New 

 York, for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures. 



Passed March 12, 1793. Chap. 59. 



"Whereas several persons in the state of New York have 

 by a voluntary agreement associated themselves together 

 for the laudable purpose of promoting agriculture, arts and 

 manufactures in this state ; And whereas the said society 

 have presented a petition to the legislature, setting forth, 

 that the petitioners, considering that the wealth and pro- 

 sperity of a country very much depend upon the nourishing 

 state of its agriculture, arts and manufactures, and observ- 

 ing the benefit[s] which in other countries have accrued from 

 the institution of societies for the purpose of encouraging 

 those great objects, have voluntarily associated themselves, 

 with a view of collecting from different parts of the state, 

 the differeut modes of agriculture that are in practice, to 

 suggest such improvements as may be found to be bene- 

 ficial ; to excite among their fellow citizens a spirit of 

 making experiments for the amelioration of lands which 

 have been exhausted, or in their natural state are unpro- 

 ductive or unfit for cultivation ; for increasing the produce 

 of such articles as are propagated amongst us, and pro- 

 moting the culture of others which have been found useful 

 in other parts, and for the improvement of field husbandry 

 in general ; and to introduce, as far as circumstances may 



