ACT OF INCORPORATION. 
Commonwealth of Plassachuscetts. 
3 Inthe year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. 
' An Act to incorporate the Boston Sociery or Narunat 
History. 
Secrion 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- 
_ tatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the 
. ‘ame, That Benjamin D. Greene, George Hayward, John Ware, 
_ Walter Channing, Edward Brooks, Amos Binney, Jr. D. Hum- 
Phreys Storer, Simon E. Greene, Joshua B. Flint, William Grigg, 
"eorge B. Emerson, and Henry Codman, with their associates, 
and such other persons as shall from time to time be duly admitted 
_ Members of the Corporation hereby created, be, and they hereby 
. %€ constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of the 
_ OSTON Society or NarvmaL History, and by that name they 
a shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable of suing and 
: all Courts and places whatsoever, and may have a Common Seal, 
With power to change the same at pleasure. 
Seer. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said Society shall have 
wer to hold real or personal estate by gift, grant, devise, or other- 
‘Se, and the same or any part thereof to alien or convey, provided 
that the clear annua] income of such personal and real estate, shall 
hot exceed the sum of three thousand dollars, nor be applied to 
“ty other purposes than the encouragement and promotion of the 
“lence of Natural History. ! 
Stor. 3. Be it further enacted, That said Society shall have 
"t to elect a President and all other necessary officers; to make 
. being sued, of prosecuting and defending unto final judgment, in — i 
