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but until Buch society shall be formed and duly organized. 

 the said corporation shall consist and be formed of the 

 aforesaid First and Second Departments. 



§ 3. The officers of the said corporation shall be a presi- 

 dent, three vice-presidents, three corresponding and three 

 recording secretaries ; a treasurer, a librarian, and as many 

 curators as the Second Department may direct. The pre- 

 sident and treasurer shall be annually elected ; and the 

 presidents of the departments shall be the vice-presidents ; 

 and the corresponding and recording secretaries of the 

 departments shall be the corresponding and recording 

 secretaries of the Institute; the Librarian of the First De- 

 partment shall be the librarian, and the curators of the 

 Second Department shall he the curators of the [institute : 

 Stephen Van Rensselaer shall be the first president, and 

 Simeon De Witt, at present president of the Society for the 

 promotion of Useful Arts, and Theodoric Romeyn Deck, at 

 present president of the Albany Lyceum of Natural History, 

 shall be the vice-presidents, and William Mayell the trea- 

 surer of the Institute; who shall severally hold their re- 

 spective offices until others shall be chosen in their places. 



§ 4. The elective officers shall be chosen by a plurality of 

 the votes of the members of the Institute present, at a 

 regular meeting for that purpose convened, according to 

 the by-laws of the Institute, of which previous notice shall 

 be given in at least one of the newspapers published in the 

 city of Albany. 



§5. II* at any regular meeting of the Institute for the 

 election of officers, any or either of the Departments con- 

 stituting the Institute shall not continue organized or be 

 in any way dissolved, such officers of the institute as are 

 hereby declared to be ex officii* from the said Departments, 

 may be elected by the Institute in the same manner as the 

 other el '(live officers are directed to be chosen. 



