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ESSEX INSTITUTE, 



AN ACT 



TO INCORPORATE THE 



THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



Be it enacted bg the Senate and House of Representatives, in General 

 Court assembled, and by the author :ty of the same, as follows: ' 



SECT. 1. The members of the Essex Historical Society, and the 

 members of the Essex County Natural History Society, together 

 with such persons, as may hereafter associate with them, are here- 

 by made a corporation by the name of the "Essex Institute;" with 

 all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the liabilities, con- 

 tained in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. 



SECT. 2. Said corporation may hold real estate to the amount of 

 thirty thousand dollars, and personal estate, exclusive of the books, 

 papers, and articles in the cabinets of said corporation, to the 

 amount of twenty thousand dollars. 



SECT. 3. The Essex Institute shall have for its object the ad- 

 vancement of horticulture, in addition to the objects for which the 

 Essex Historical Society and the Essex County Natural History 

 Society were incorporated. 



SECT. 4. All property now owned by said Essex Historical 

 Society, and said Essex County Natural History Society, and all 

 property that may accrue to either of said societies, shall belong to 

 the Essex Institute. 



SECT. 5. All donations and bequests which may have been made 

 to the Essex Historical Society, or to the Essex County Natural 

 History Society, shall accrue to, and become the property of, the 

 Essex Institute, and shall be devoted to the objects for which such 

 donation or bequest was made. 



SECT. 6. The income from the funds of the Essex Historical 

 Society shall be devoted to the objects of the historical department, 

 and the income from the funds of the Essex County Natural History 

 Society shall be devoted to the objects of natural history, or horti- 

 dulture -.provided, however, if the said corporation shall at any time 

 be in arrears in meeting its current expenses, from the sums receiv- 

 ed from annual assessments, the income from the historical funds 

 and the income from the natural history funds, shall be applied, pro 

 rota, to meet the deficiency. 



SECT. 7. The treasurer shall keep separate accounts of the funds 

 which belonged to the Essex Historical Society and to the Essex 

 County Natural History Society, under the direction of a finance 

 committee, to be appointed at the annual meeting. 



SECT. 8. The library and cabinets of said corporation shall be 

 kept in the city of Salem. 



SECT. 9. The Essex Institute shall be liable for all the debts due 

 from the Essex Historical Society and from the Essex County Natu- 

 ral History Society. 



SECT. 10. The president of the Essex Historical Society, or the 

 president of the Essex County Natural History Society, is hereby 

 authorized to notify the first meeting of the Essex Institute, by an 

 advertisement thereof, under his hand, for seven days before such 

 meeting, in any newspaper printed in the city of Salem. 



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