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CHARTER 



OP THE 



ALBANY LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



An Act to Incorporate the Albany Lyceum of Natural History. 

 Passed April 23, 1823. Chap. 227. 



"Whereas the members of the Albany Lyceum of Natural 

 History have associate! lor the purpose of encouraging 

 the study, and of disseminating a knowledge of natural his- 

 tory and other useful sciences, and have petitioned for an 

 act of incorporation : Therefore, 



§ 1. Be it enacted by the People of the state of New York, repn - 

 sented in Senate and Assembly, That Stephen Van Rensselaer, 

 Theodoric Romeyn Beck, Simeon De Witt Bloodgood, 

 Lewis C. Beck, Matthew ITenry Webster, Frederick Ma- 

 thews, Richard VarickDeW r itt and James Eights, and such 

 other persons as now are and may from time to time be- 

 come members, shall be and hereby are constituted a body- 

 corporate and politic, by the name of the "Albany Lyceum 

 of Natural History," and by that name they shall have 

 perpetual succession, and shall be persons capable of suing 

 ami being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering 

 and being answered unto, defending and being defended, 

 in all courts and places whatsoever, and may have a com- 

 mon seal with power to change and alter the same from 

 time to time, and shall be capable of purchasing, taking 

 possession of, holding and enjoying, to them and their suc- 

 cessors, any real estate in fee simple or otherwise, and any 

 goods, chattels, and personal estate, and of selling, leasing, 



