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ilances mav render proper, an emulation for the eflabliihment 

 of ufeful Arts and Manufadures in thofe parts of the State, 

 where they can be beneficially carried on. That the petitioners 

 conceive it would greatly conduce to advance the important 

 ends of their aflbciation, if they were authorized to a6t as a 

 corporate body, and poffefs property to fuch amount as would 

 enable them to effeduate their purpofes more fatisfa£torily to 

 themfelves, and more beneficially to the public : They therefore 

 prayed, that the Legiflature would be pleafed by law to incor- 

 porate the Society for the purpofes aforefaid, under fuch Hmi- 

 tations and reftridions as to the Legiflature Ihall feem meet : — 

 Therefore 



" BE it enaBed hy the people of the State of New-Yorky repre- 

 fented in Senate and Afembly, That Robert R. Livingfton, John 

 Slofs Hobart, Samuel L. Mitchill, John M'Keffon, Matthew 

 Clarldbn, Samuel Bard, John Cantine, Samuel Jones, Thomas 

 Tillotfon, Jofeph Hafbrouck, James G. Graham, Jacobus 

 Swartwout, Melandon Smith, Abraham Hardenburgh, John 

 Gelfton, William W. Gilbert, David R. Floyd Jones, George 

 CHnton, Aquila Giles, Ezra LTiommedieu, John Schenck, 

 James Hunter, Egbert Benfon, John Blagge, John P. Delancey, 

 Francis Childs, John Watts, Peter Vandervoort, Henry Will, 

 Ebenezer Purdy, Jofiah Ogden Hoffman, John Smith of Suffolk 

 county, CorneUus J. Bogart, William Dunlap, Walter Ruther- 

 ford, Philip Van Cortlandt, John Williams, Richard Varick, 



