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An Act to incorporate the St. George's Society of 

 the City of New York, passed March 23d, 1838. 



The people of the State of New York, repre- 

 sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 



1. Anthony Barclay, Joseph Fowler, Charles Ed- 



wards, Rev. Manton Eastburn, and such other 

 persons as now or may hereafter become asso- 

 ciated with them, are hereby constituted a 

 body corporate by the name of the St. 

 George's Society of New York. 



2. The objects of said Society are benevolent and 



to afford relief to the indigent natives of 

 England, and their wives and children. 



3. The corporation shall have power to make by- 



laws, rules and regulations for the admission 

 of its members and their government, the 

 election of its officers and their duty and 

 government, the expelling any of its mem- 

 bers for not obeying its laws, and for the safe 

 keeping of its property and funds. 



4. The said corporation may purchase and hold 



real and personal estate, but the annual in- 

 come of the said real and personal estate 

 which the said corporation may at any one 

 time hold shall not exceed five thousand dol- 

 lars. 



5. The said corporation shall possess the general 



powers and be subjected to the general re- 



