Trans. N. V. Ac. Set. 154 



2. And he it further enacted, That the said Society shall, from time to time, 

 forever hereafter, have pov/er 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 dischargin<T 

 the same ; for the admission of new members ; for the government of the officers 

 and members thereof ; for collecting annual contributions from the members 

 towards the funds thereof ; for regulating the times and places of meeting of the 

 said Society ; for suspending or expelling such members as shall neglect or 

 refuse to comply with the by-laws or regulations, and for the managing or 

 directing the affairs and concerns of the said Society: Provided %\ichhy-\a.\\s 

 and regulations be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State, or of 

 the United States. 



3. And be it further enacted. That the officers of the said Society shall con- 

 sist of a President and two Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary, a 

 Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and Five Curators, and such other officers as 

 the Society may judge necessary ; who shall be annually chosen, and who shall 

 continue in office for one year, or until others be elected in their stead ; that if 

 the annual election shall not be held at any of the days for that purpose ap- 

 pointed, it shall be lawful to make such election at any other day ; and that five 

 members of the said Society, assembling at the place and time designated for 

 that purpose by any by-law or regulation of the Society, shall constitute a legal 

 meeting thereof. 



4. And be it further enacted, That Samuel L. Mitchill shall be the President ; 

 Casper W. Eddy the First Vice-President ; Frederick C. Schaeffer the Second 

 Vice-President; Nathaniel Paulding, Corresponding Secretary; William Cooper, 

 Recording Secretary; Benjamin P. Kissam, Treasurer; and John Torrey, Will- 

 iam Cumberland, D. Jurco V. Kneveis, James Clements, and James Pierce, 

 Curators; severally to be the first officers of the said corporation, 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 further enacted. That the present Constitution of the said Asso- 

 ciation 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 resident 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 New York^ 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 29, 1818. Dep. Sec'ry. 



