ACT OF INCORPORATION. 



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In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty -nine. 



AN ACT 



TO INCORPORATE THE MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 

 Representatives in General Court assembled^ and by the 

 authority of the same. That Zebedee Cook, Jr., Robert 

 L. Emmons, William Worthington, B. V. French, John 

 B. Russell, J. R. Newell, Cheever Newhall, and Thomas 

 G. Fessenden, their associates and Successors, be and 

 they hereby are incorporated under the name and by the 

 description of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 for the purpose of encouraging and improving the science 

 and practice of Horticulture, and promoting the amelio- 

 ration of the various species of trees, fruits, plants, and 

 vegetables, and the introduction of new species and varie- 

 ties ; with power to make by-laws not inconsistent with 

 the Laws of the Commonwealth, for the regulation of 

 said Society, and the management of the same and of its 

 concerns : to receive donations, bequests and devises for 

 promoting the objects of said Society ; to lay and collect 



