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CHARTER 



OP THE 



SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF USEFUL 



ARTS. 



An Act to incorporate a Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts. 

 Passed April 2, 1804. Chap. 41. 



Whereas the institution of a society calculated to pro- 

 mote, collect and preserve the knowledge of useful arts, is 

 intimately connected with the public welfare and prosperity : 

 Therefore, 



§ 1. -Be it enacted by the people of the state of New York, repre- 

 sented in Senate and Assembly, That all such persons who 

 shall, at the time of the passing of this act, be members of 

 the society for the promotion of agriculture, arts and manu- 

 factures, and such other persons who shall from time to 

 time become members of the society hereby intended to be 

 incorporated, and shall within ten months after the passing 

 of this act, signify their intention in writing, subscribed by 

 them respectively, to Samuel L. Mitchill or Benjamin De 

 "Witt, the present secretaries of the said society, to become 

 members of the society hereby intended to be incorporated, 

 and shall pay to either of them two dollars for the use of 

 the said society, shall be, and hereby are, constituted a 

 body corporate and politic by the name of " The Society for 

 the Promotion of Useful Arts ; " that by that name the said 

 society shall have perpetual succession ; and that the said 

 society and their successors shall be capable in law to sue 

 and be sued, plead and impleaded, answer and be answered, 

 defend and be defended, in all courts and in all actions, 



