officers as Ihe said corporation may think necessary, who shall 

 be elected annually or otherwise, as the rules and by-laws of 

 the corporation may direct. 



Sec. 3. And he it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 

 That the said corporation when convened, upon due notice 

 given to the members by public advertisement or otherwise, 

 shall have power and authority to make, ordain and establish, 

 such and so many rules, by-laws and ordinances relating to the 

 times of meeting, the admission of members, the powers and 

 duties of the officers thereof, and the ordering of the other con- 

 cerns of the said corporation as they may deem necessary and 

 proper : Provided, That no rule, by-law or ordinance as afore- 

 said, shall be valid if inconsistent with the constitution and laws 

 of this State or of the United States. 



Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 

 That the present officers of the said Society shall continue in 

 their respective stations until an election shall be made under 

 this act, and the rules, by-laws and ordinances now in force, 

 not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State, or 

 of the United States, shall be good and valid until altered, 

 amended or abrogated by the corporation. 



REES HILL, 

 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 



ISAAC WEAVER, 



Speaker of the Senate. 

 Approved — The twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand 

 eight hundred and nineteen. 



WILLIAM FINDLAY. 



CHAPTER 5006. 



A SUPPLEMENT TO THE ACT ENTITLED " AN ACT FOR THE PROMOTION 

 OF AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES." 



Section L Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- 

 sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General As- 

 sembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, 

 That the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, 

 shall receive annually from the County Commissioners of Phi- 

 ladelphia county, out of the county tax assessed on the city and 

 county of Philadelphia, the sum of fifty dollars for every mem- 

 ber which the freemen of the said city and county are or shall 

 be respectively entitled to elect to the House of Representa- 

 tives of this commonwealth, for the purposes designated in the 



