AN ACT 



To incorporate the Connecticut Academy cfArts and 

 Sciences. 



Xiy KEREAS literary Societies have been found to promote, dif- 

 fuse and preserve the knowledge of those Arts and Sciences," 

 which are the support of Agricvjiture, Manufactures and Commerce, 

 and to advance the dignity, virtue and happiness of a people : There- 

 fore, 



Be it enacted bij the Governor and Council.) and House of Refire- 

 sfntatives^ in General Court assembled^ That Timothy Dwight, James 

 Dana, Zephaniah Swift, John Allen, David Daggett, Jesse Root, John 

 CSmithJsaac Beers, Nathaniel Smith, Elijah Munson, Josiah Meigs, 

 Enoch Perkins, Jeremiah Atwater, 4th. John Bai^ker, Elias Shipman, 

 No?.h Webster, jun. Simeon Baldwin, Elizur Goodrich, Obadiah 

 Hotchkiss, jun. Timothy Pitkin, jun. Theodore Dwight, Abraham 

 Bishop, Ashur Miller, Stephen Titus Hosmer, James Hillhouse, 

 Jereraiah Wadsworth, Pierpont Edwards, Isaac Mills, Eli Whitney, 

 John Davenport, John Bowden, Bela Hubbard, Jonathan O. Moseley, 

 Jonathan Sturgiss, Elizur Wright, Jeremiah Townsend, jun. Jared 

 Mansfield, John Marsh, Nathan Perkins, Levi Hart, John Treadwell, 

 Oliver Ellsworth, Jonathan Trumbull, and Eneas Munson, and their 

 associates, be, and they hereby are formed into, constituted and made 

 a body politic and corporate, by the name of" The Connecticut Acad- 

 ennj of Arts and Sciences," and by that name, they and their succes- 

 sors shall and may have perpetual succession ; shall be capable of 

 suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, in all suits, of 

 what nature soever ; may have a Common Seal, and may alter the 

 same at pleasure ; and may also purchase, receive, hold and convey 

 iiny estate, real or personal ; provided that the annual income of such 

 estate shall not exceed one thousand dollars. 



2d. And be it further enacted, That the said Academy may, from 

 time to time, elect a President and a Keeper of Records, which Keep- 

 er of Records shall be sworn to a faithful discharge of his trust ; and 

 such other officers as they may find necessary or convenient ; may 

 elect additional members, provided the whole number of members 



