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from time to time; and shall be capable of purchasing, taking, 
holding, and enjoying, to them and their successors, any real estate 
in fee simple or otherwise, and any goods, chattels, and personal 
estate, and of selling, leasing, or otherwise disposing of the said real 
or personal estate, or any part thereof, at their will and pleasure: 
Provided always, that the clear annual value or income of such 
real or personal estate shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dol- 
lars: Provided, however, that the funds of the said corporation 
shall be used and appropriated to the promotion of the objects stated 
in the preamble to this act, and those only. 
2. And be it further enacted, That the said Society shall, from 
time to time, forever hereafter, have power 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 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 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 such by-laws and regula- 
tions 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 Correspond 
ing Secretary, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and five Cura- 
tors, 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, Cor- 
responding Secretary; William Cooper, Recording Secretary ; Ben- 
jamin P. Kissam, Treasurer, and John Torrey, William Cumber- 
land, D’Jurco V. Knevels, James Clements, and James Pierce, 
Curators; severally to be the first officers of the said corporation, 
