AN ACT, 



TO INCORPORATE THE 



PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY, 

 FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE. 



WHEREAS a number of persons desirous of promo- 

 tine; agriculture m this country, have tor that purpose asso- 

 ciated themselves in the city of Philadelfhia, and it is the 

 manifest interest of free governments to cherish and encourage 

 institutions o' such a nature : There lore, 



Sect. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre^ 

 sentatives of the Connionzuealth of Pennsylvania in General As' 

 $embly met^ and it is hereby enacted by authority of thesamCy 

 That the persons v/ho now constitute the Philadelphia society, 

 for promoting agriculture, or who shall hereafter be admitted 

 members o' the sam.^, shall be, and hereby are declared to be a 

 body politic and corporate ior the term of ten years, from and 

 after the passing ol this act, by the name and style of," The 

 Philadelphia Society for promotmg Agriculture," to have 

 succession, to plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, in 

 all courts of record or elsewhere, and be capable to take, 

 hold and enjoy lands, tenements and hereditaments, goods 

 and chattels, and the same from time to time to sell, grant, 

 demise alien and dispose of, to use a common seal, and to 

 alter or renew the same at pleasure : provided th^it the clear 

 yearly value of the real estate by them held shall at no time 

 exceed the sum of three thousand dollars. 



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