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render proper, an emulation for the establishment of useful 

 arts mid manufactures in those parts of the state where 

 they can be beneficially carried on; that the petitioners 

 conceive it would greatly conduce to advance the important 

 ends of their association, if they were authorized to act as 

 a corporate body, and possess property to such amount as 

 would enable them to effectuate their purposes more satis- 

 factorily to themselves and more beneficially to the public: 

 They therefore prayed, that the legislature would be 

 pleased, by law, to incorporate the society for the purposes 

 aforesaid, under such limitations and restrictions as to the 

 legislature shall seem meet ; Therefore, 



§ I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York, 

 r< presented in Sonde and Assent/)!// : That Robert R. Living- 

 ston, John Sloss Hobart, Samuel L. Mitchill, John M'Kes- 

 son, Matthew Clarkson, Samuel Bard, John Cantine, 

 Samuel Jones. Thomas Tillotson, Joseph Ilasbrouck, 

 James C. Graham, Jacobus Swartwout, Melancton Smith, 

 Abraham Hardenberg, John Gelston, William W. Gilbert, 

 David R. Floyd Jones, George Clinton, Aquila Giles, 

 Ezra L'Hommedieu, John Skenck, James Hunter, Egbert 

 Benson, John Blagge, John P. Delancy, Francis Childs, 

 John Watts, Peter Vandervoort, Henry Will, Ebenezer 

 Purdy, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, John Smith of Suffolk 

 county, Cornelius J. Bogart, William Dunlap, Walter 

 Rutherford, Philip Van Cortlandt, John Williams, Rich- 

 ard Varick, John Jay, Elias Newman, Amasa Dingley, 

 Gilbert Colden Willett, Stephen Lush, John Stevens, John 

 Kemp, Abraham Beach, Samuel Nicoll, Jonathan N. 

 Havens, John L. Gardner, Frederick Rhinelander, Pierre 

 De La Bigarre, Edward Livingston, John Thurman, Jere- 

 miah Van Rensselaer, James Duane, Simeon DeWitt, Na- 

 thaniel Sackett, William Rhinelander, Samuel Russell, 

 Moses DeWitt, David Frederick Laring, John Nicholson, 

 Andrew King, John Barber, Joseph Barber, Johannes 



