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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 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 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, 
Dep. Sec’y. 
ALBANY, April 29th, 1818. 
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. 
WHEREAS, 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 
record, 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 Supreme Court, on the 5th day of Janu- 
ary, 1876, made the following order upon such application in the 
premises, viz. : 
