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strictions and liabilities prescribed in the third 

 title of the eighteenth chapter of the first 

 part of the revised Statues. 



The committee having been advised that a reso- 

 lution had better appear on the minutes of the So- 

 ciety at some general meeting showing that this Act 

 was accepted and recognized, the following reso- 

 lution was accordingly prepared and adopted : 



" This Society having been incorporated under 

 its present style by an act of the Legislature of the 

 State of New York on the twenty-third day of 

 March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. 



Resolved, That such Act be accepted and recog- 

 nition revert back to the time when the said Act be- 

 came a law, and so as to cover all the proceedings 

 from that period, and all future proceedings of the 

 Society, and be binding on all its then and present 

 and future members." 



The funds available for distribution, at all times 

 meagre, would seem at this period to have been un- 

 usually low, for a motion was made at the regular 

 quarterly meeting, held October loth, 1838, to 

 make arrangements for giving a Charity Ball, for 

 the benefit of the Charitable Fund. The proposi- 

 tion was fully considered, but after ascertaining the 

 expenses that would attend the securing of suitable 

 rooms, and estimating the number of tickets that 



