CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE 

 AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY 



We, the undersigned, persons of full age and citizenship of the United 

 States, and a majority being citizens of the District of Columbia, pursuant 

 to and in conformity with sections 599 to 603, inclusive, of the Code of 

 Law for the District of Columbia, enacted March 3, 1901, as amended by 

 the Acts approved January 31 and June 30, 1902, hereby associate ourselves 

 together as a society or body corporate and certify in writing: 



1. That the name of the Society is the American Fisheries Society. 



2. That the term for which it is organized is nine hundred and ninety- 

 nine years. 



3. That its particular business and objects are to promote the cause 

 of fish culture; to gather and diffuse information bearing upon its practical 

 success, and upon all matters relating to the fisheries; to unite and encourage 

 all interests of fish culture and the fisheries; and to treat all questions of a 

 scientific and economic character regarding fish with power: 



(a) To acquire, hold and convey real estate and other property, and to 

 establish general and special funds. 



(b) To hold meetings. 



(c) To publish and distribute documents. 



(d) To conduct lectures. 



(e) To conduct, endow, or assist investigation in any department of 

 fishery and fish-culture science. 



(/) To acquire and maintain a library. 



(g) And, in general, to transact any business pertinent to a learned 

 society. 



4. That the affairs, funds and property of the corporation shall be in 

 general charge of a council, consisting of the officers and the executive 

 committee, the number of whose members for the first year shall be seven- 

 teen, all of whom shall be chosen from among the members of the Society. 



Witness our hands and seals this 16th day of December, 1910. 



Seymour Bower (Seal) 



Theodore Gill (Seal) 



William E. Meehan (Seal) 



Theodore S. Palmer (Seal) 



Bertrand H. Roberts (Seal) 



Hugh M. Smith (Seal) 



Richard Sylvester (Seal) 



Recorded April 16, 1911. 



