ACT OF incorpoeatio:n^. 



STATE OF MAINE. 



In the Iear of Odr Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Setenty-Thrke. 

 An Act to Incorporate the Maine State Pomological vSociet^-. 



Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as 

 follows: 



Section 1. Z. A. Gilbert, George W. Woodman, A. L. Simpson, George B. Sawyer, 

 •J. C. Weston, Charles Pope, Samuel Rolfe, James A. Varney, Albert Noyes, Rufus 

 Prince, J. C. Madigan, S. F. Perley, Hannibal Belcher, J. B. Phillips, Joseph Taylor, 

 Harvey Counce, John Currier, William Swett, Henry McLaughlin, Calvin Chamberlain, 

 Washington Gilbert, George 0. Weston, Hiram Chase, J. C. Talbot and S. L. Goodale, 

 their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a corporation for the promotion 

 of fruit culture, by the name of The Maine State Pomological Society. 



Sec. 2. Said society shall have all the rights, privileges and powers conferred by 

 the laws of this State upon county and local agricultural societies, and shall bo subject 

 to all liabilities imposed by existing laws upon such societies, so far as the same are 

 applicable to the objects of this society; but the bounty to be paid by the State to 

 said society shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars in one year. 



Sec. 3. Said society shall have power to elect such oflBcers, and adopt such by-laws 

 and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, as may be necessar}' to 

 carry into efi"ect the objects of the society. 



Sec. 4. The first meeting of said society may be called by A. L Simpson, J. C. 

 Weston and Geo. B. Sawyer, by a notice signed by them, stating the time and place 

 of said meeting, to be published two weeks successively in the Maine Farmer, the last 

 publication to bo seven days at least before the time of said meeting. 



Sec. 5. This act shall take effect when approved. 



[Approved February 17, 1873.] 



