AN ACT 



TO INCORPORATE THE 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 



OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Whereas it is represented to the legislature that a 

 number of persons have formed a society in Philadelphia 

 Cor the encouragement and cultivation of the sciences, by 

 the name of '' The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phi- 

 ladelphia," as a society devoted entirely to the advance- 

 ment of useful learning, and in order that the purposes 

 thereof may be carried into better effect, 



Therefore, 



Section 1. BE it enacted by the senate and house 

 of representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania^ 

 in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the 

 authority of tlie same. That all such persons as now are 

 members of said society, according to its rules heretofore 

 adopted, or that hereafter may become members of the 

 same, agreeably to its rules and regulations, be, and they 

 are hereby incorporated into a society by the name of 

 " The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,'* 

 and by that name shall have perpetual succession, with 

 power to have a common seal, and change the same at 

 pleasure, to make contracts relative to the said institution, 

 to sue and be sued, and by that name and style be capable, 

 in law, of purchasing, taking, holding, and conveying, any 

 estate, real or personal, for the use of said corporation: 

 Provided, that the annual income of, such estate shall not 

 exceed in value eight thousand dollars, nor be applied to any 

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