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In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six. 



AN ACT 



To incorporate the Essex County Natural History Society. 



it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 

 tives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the 

 same, That ANDREW NICHOLS, WILLIAM OAKES, and WIL- 

 LIAM PRESCOTT, and their associates, are hereby made a 

 Corporation by the name of the ESSEX COUNTY NATURAL 

 HISTORY SOCIETY, for the purpose of promoting the Science 

 of Natural History with all the powers and privileges and 

 subject to all the liabilities contained in the forty fourth 

 chapter of the Revised Statutes of this Commonwealth 

 " passed on the fourth day of November in the year one 

 thousand eight hundred and thirty five," and for the purpose 

 aforesaid may hold real estate to the amount often thousand 

 dollars, and personal estate, exclusive of the books, papers 

 and articles in the cabinet of said Society to the amount of 

 twenty thousand dollars. 



House of Representatives Feb. 11, 1836 Passed to be enacted. 



JULIUS ROCKWELL, Speaker. 



In Senate, Feb. 12, 1836 Passed to be enacted. 



HORACE MANN, President. 



COUNCIL CHAMBER, 12th Feb. 1836. Approved. 



EDWARD EVERETT. 



A true copy attest. 



JOHN P. BIGELOW, Secretary. 



