PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY 



FOR 



PROMOTING AGRICULTURE 



THE SOCIETY was incorporated in the year one thousand 

 eight hundred and nine, for the term of ten years ; at the 

 expiration of which the following charter was granted : — 



AN ACT 



To incorporate the Philadelphia Society for promoting Agri- 

 culture. 



Sect. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- 

 sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General 

 Assembly 7net, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of 

 the same. That the persons who now constitute the Phila- 

 delphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, or who shall 

 hereafter be admitted members of the same, shall be, and 

 hereby are declared to be a body politic and corporate for the 

 term of twenty years from and after the passing of this act, 

 by the name and style of" The Philadelphia Society for Pro- 

 moting Agriculture," to have succession, to plead and be im- 

 pleaded, sue and be sued in all courts of record or else- 

 where, and be capable to take, hold and enjoy lands, tene~ 

 ments 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 or renew the same at 

 pleasure : Provided, That the clear yearly value of the real 

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