Manual. 307 



which both houses of the legislature shall have been formed, 

 ready to proceed to business, after the first day of January 

 in every year : That the said officers shall respectively hold 

 their offices until the next annual election day, or until 

 others shall be elected in their stead ; That if the annual 

 election shall not be held at any of the days for that pur- 

 pose appointed, it shall be lawful to make such election at 

 any other day ; and that the president, or one of the vice- 

 presidents, with any twelve or more of the said society, 

 meeting at the place designated for that purpose by any 

 by-law, shall constitute a legal meeting of the said society. 



§ 4. And be it further enacted, That the books, papers, mon- 

 eys and effects of the Society for the Promotion of Agricul- 

 ture, Arts and Manufactures, shall be, and the same are 

 hereby with the approbation, and at the instance of the 

 last mentioned corporation, vested in the said Society for 

 the Promotion of Useful Arts, from and after the fourth 

 day of May next, on which day the corporation aforesaid 

 expires by its own limitation. 



§ 5. And be it further enacted, That the members of the 

 legislature shall in that capacity be honorary members of the 

 said society ; but shall not vote at elections, or have any 

 voice in the disposition of the funds of the said society. 



§ 6. And be it further enacted, That Robert R. Livingston 

 shall be the president, and EzraL'Hommedieu the vice-presi- 

 dent of the said society, until the second annual election day. 



[Trans. m."\ 39 



