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suits, matters and causes whatsoever, and to purchase, take, 

 receive, hold and enjoy, any real or personal estate, in fee, 

 simple or otherwise, and the same to lease, sell, dispose of 

 and convey for the purpose of the better enabling them to 

 carry into effect BUch measures as to the said society shall 

 seem best calculated to promote agriculture, arts and manu- 

 factures witfaiih this state: Provided, That the clear annual 

 value of such real and personal estate shall not exceed the 

 sum of two thousand five hundred dollars: That the said 

 society shall have a common seal, which may from time to 

 time be changed or altered at its pleasure. 



§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the said society shall, 

 from time to time, forever hereafter, have power to make, 

 constitute, ordain and establish such by-laws and regulations 

 as they shall judge proper for the election of their officers, 

 for prescribing their respective functions, and the mode of 

 discharging the same; for the admission of new members 

 into the said society; for the government of the officers 

 and members thereof; for ascertaining an equal annual 

 rate of contributions towards the funds thereof; for regu- 

 lating the times and places of meeting for managing the 

 affairs of the said society, and for suspending or expelling 

 such members of the said society as shall neglect or refuse 

 to comply with the by-laws and regulations thereof, so as 

 such by-laws and regulations shall not be repugnant to the 

 laws of the United States or of this state. 



§3. And be itfurther enacted, That a president and one or 

 more vice presidents, nine counsellors, two or more secre- 

 taries, a treasurer, and such other officers as the said society 

 shall, by any by-law, from time to time appoint, shall be 

 elected by a plurality of votes of the members of the said 

 society present at any election : That such election shall be 

 annually held in the senate chamber, or at such other place 

 as the said society shall from time to time by by-law direct 

 aud appoint, on the Tuesday next succeeding the day on 



