4 ACT OF INCORPORATION. 



assessments on the Members, not exceeding two dollars 

 per annmn ; to enforce the payment of such assessments 

 by action for the same ; to purchase and hold real estate 

 to the amount of ten thousand dollars, and personal estate 

 to the amount of twenty thousand dollars; to elect a 

 Treasurer, Secretary, and other officers — the appoint- 

 ment of which shall be provided for in the by-laws of 

 said Society ; the meeting for the election of such officers 

 to be called at the times and in the manner provided in 

 such by-laws ; to empower the President. Directors, 

 Comptrollers, Treasurer, Committees, or other Officers or 

 Members, or any Attorneys, Agents, or Representatives 

 of said Society, to transact the business, manage and 

 apply the funds, discharge the functions, and promote 

 the objects thereof; to authorise any of the Members or 

 Officers of said Society to fill vacancies in the various 

 offices of the same that may happen in the intervals be- 

 tween the meetings of the Members for choosing officers ; 

 and to commence and defend suits. 



Section 2. Be it further enacted^ That in case the said 

 Corporation shall at any time contract debts beyond their 

 means and ability to pay at the time of contracting the 

 same, the Officers or other Agents of said Corporation so 

 contracting such debts shall be personally liable for the 

 same. 



Section 3. Be it further enacted. That any Member of 

 said Corporation may cease to be a Member thereof, by 

 giving notice to that effect to the President, Treasurer, 

 Secretary, or other Officers, and paying the amount due 

 from him to the Society. 



Section 4. Be it further enacted. That the first meet- 

 ing of the Members of said Corporation may be called by 

 any two or more of the persons named in the first section, 

 bv giving one week's notice or more, by advertisement in 

 any newspaper printed in Boston. 



