AN ACT 



To INCORPORATE THE CoXXECTICUT AcADEMY OF ArTS AND SCIENCES. 



Whereas literary Societies have been found to promote, diffuse and preserve 

 the knowledge of those Arts and Sciences which are the support of Agriculture, 

 Manufactures and Commerce, and to advance the dignity, virtue and happiness of 

 a people : Therefore, 



Be it enacted by the Governor and Council, and Hoiise of Representatives, in 

 General Court assembled, That Tiinotliy Dwight, James Dana, Zephaniah Swift, 

 John Allen, David Daggett, Jesse Root, John C. Smith, Isaac Beers, Nathaniel 

 Smith, Elijah Munson, Josiah Meigs, Enoch Perkins, Jeremiah Atwater, 4th, John 

 Barker, Elias Shipman, Noah Webster, Jr., Simeon Baldwin, Elizur Goodrich, 

 Obadiah Hotchkiss, Jr., Timothy Pitkin, Jr., Theodore Dwight, Abraham Bishop, 

 Ashur Miller, Stephen Titus Hosmer, James Hillhouse, Jeremiah Wadsworth, 

 Pierpont Edwards, Isaac Mills, Eli Whitney, John Davenport, John Bowden, Bela 

 Hubbard, Jonathan O. Moseley, Jonathan Sturgiss, Elizur Wright, Jeremiah 

 Townsend, Jr., Jared Mansfield, John Marsh, Nathan Perkins, Levi Hart, John 

 Treadwell, Oliver Ellsworth, Jonathan Trumbull, and Eneas Munson, and their 

 associates, be, and they hereby are formed into, constituted and made a body 

 politic and corporate, by the name of " The Connedicid Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences," and by that name, they and their successors shall and may have per- 

 petual succession; shall be capable of sueing and being sued, pleading and being 

 impleaded, in all suits, of what nature soever; may have a Common Seal, and 

 may alter the same at pleasure ; and may also purchase, receive, hold and convey 

 any estate, real or personal ; provided that the annual income of such estate shall 

 not exceed one thousand dollars. 



2d. .4nrf be it further enacted, That the said Academy may, from time to time, 

 elect a President and a Keeper of Records, which Keeper of Records shall be sworn 

 to a faithful discharge of his trust; and such other officers as they may find nec- 

 essary or convenient; may elect additional members, provided the whole number 

 of members resident in this State shall never exceed two hundred, nor ever be 

 less than forty. And the said Academy may make by-laws respecting the num- 

 ber, qualifications and duties of their Officers ; the mode of election and admis- 

 sion of members; the time, place and manner of holding their meetings; and the 

 number necessary to make a quorum, and all other by-laws which they may deem 

 necessary for the due regulation of said Society, not repugnant to the laws of the 

 State or of the United States ; and may annex reasonable pecuniary fines and 

 penalties, for the breach of such by-laws, not exceeding ten dollars for one offence. 



3d. And be it further enacted. That the first meeting of said Academy be held, 

 at the State House in New Haven, on the fourth Tuesday of instant October. 



4th. Jlnd be it further enacted. That this Act, or any part thereof, if found inad- 

 equate or inconvenient, may be altered, amended, or repealed. 



Passed on the second Thursday of October, A.D. 1799. 



