ORDER OF COURT. 3 



who shall hold their respective offices until the twenty- third day of 

 February next, and until others shall be chosen in their places. 



5. And be it farther enacted, That the present Constitution of 

 the said Association shall, after passing of this Act, continue to be 

 the Constitution thereof; and that no alteration shall be made 

 therein, unless by a vote to that effect of three-fourths of the resi- 

 dent members, and upon the request in writing of one-third of such 

 resident members, and submitted at least one month before any 

 vote shall be taken thereupon. 



State of Neiv YorJc, Secretary's Office. 



I CERTIFY the preceding to be a true copy of an original Act of 

 the Legislature of this State, on file in this Office. 



ARCH'D CAMPBELL, 



Albany, April 2dth, 1818. 



Dep. Sec'y. 



ORDER OF COURT. 



ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 



TO CHANGE THE NAME OF 



THE LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY IN THE 

 CITY OF NEW YORK 



TO 



THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



W^HEREAS, in pursuance of the vote and proceedings of this Cor- 

 poration to change the corporate name thereof from " The Lyceum 

 of Natural History in the City of New York " to "The New York 

 Academy of Sciences,'' which vote and proceedings appear of 

 recoi'd, an application has been made in behalf of said Corporation 

 to the Supreme Court of the State of New York to legalize and 

 authorize such change, according to the statute in such case pro- 

 vided, by Chittenden & Hubbard, acting as the attorneys of the 

 Corporation, and the said Supi'eme Court, on the 5th day of Janu- 

 ary, 1876, made the following order upon such application in the 

 premises, viz. : 



