AN ACT, 
TO INCORPORATE THE 
PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY, 
FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE. 
WHEREAS a number of persons desirous of promo- 
ting agriculture in this country, have for that purpose asso- 
ciated themselves in the city of Philadelphia, and it is the 
manifest interest of free governments to cherish and encourage 
institutions of such a nature: Therefore, 
Sect. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- 
sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General As- 
sembly met, and itis hereby enacted by authority of the same, 
That the persons who now constitute the Philadelphia society, 
for promoting agriculture, or who shall hereafter be admitted 
members oi the same, shall be, and hereby are declared to be a 
body politic and corporate for the term of ten years, from and 
after the passing of this act, by the name and style of, “ The 
Philadelphia Society for promoting Agriculture,” to have 
succession, to plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, in 
all courts of record or elsewhere, and be capable to take, 
hold and enjoy lands, tenements and hereditaments, goods 
and chattels, and the same from time to time to sell, grant, 
demise alien and dispose of, to use a common seal, and to 
alter ae the same at pleasure : provided that the clear 
yearly value of the real’ estate by them held shall at no time 
exceed the sum of three thousand dollars. 
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