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tion of their officers; for prescribing their respective functions, and the 

 mode of discharging 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 regulat- 

 ing 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 such by-laws 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 

 consist of a President and two Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secre- 

 tary, 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 appointed, 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, Correspond- 

 ing Secretary; William Cooper, Recording Secretary; Benjamin P. Kis- 

 sam, Treasurer, and John Torrey, William Cumberland, D'Jurco V. 

 Knevels, James Clements, and James Pierce, Curators; severally to be 

 the first officers of the said Corporation, who shall hold their respective 

 offices until the twent} r -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 

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

 tion 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 20, 1818. Dep. Sec'y. 



