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ments, gifts, and bequests of what nature so ever, in fee 

 simple, or for term, of life, lives, years, or otherwise, and also 

 to give, grant, let, sell, alien, or assign the same lands, tene- 

 ments, hereditaments, goods, chattels, and premises, accord- 

 ing to the nature of the respective gifts, grants, and be- 

 quests made to them the said Society and of their estate 

 therein. 



Provided, That the amount of the clear yearly value of such 

 real estate do not exceed the value of ten thousand bushels of 

 good merchantable wheat. 



And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 

 the said Society be, and shall be for ever hereafter able, and 

 capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, 

 answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all 

 or any of the courts or other places, and before any judges, 

 justices, and other person and persons, in all manner of actions, 

 suits, complaints, pleas, causes, and matters, of what nature or 

 kind so ever, within this Commonwealth ; and that it shall 

 and may be lawful to and for the said Society, for ever here- 

 after, to have and use one common seal in their affairs, and 

 the same at their will and pleasure to break, change, alter, 

 and renew. 



And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 

 for the well governing the said Society, and ordering their 

 affairs, they shall have the following officers, that is to say, one 

 Patron, who shall be his Excellency the President of the 

 Supreme Executive Council [now the Governor] of this Com- 

 monwealth, for the time being, and likewise one President, 

 three Vice- Presidents, four Secretaries, three Curators, one 

 Treasurer, together with a council of twelve members; and 

 that on the first Friday of January next, between the hours of 

 two and five in the afternoon, as many of the members of the 

 said Society as shall have paid up their arrears due to the 

 said Society, and shall declare their willingness to conform to 

 the laws, regulations, and ordinances of the Society, then duly 

 in force, according to the tenor hereof, by subscribing the 

 same, and who shall attend in the Hall, or place of meeting of 



