iv ACT OF INCORPORATION. 
rules and by-laws for the election and government of its members, 
for the management of its property, for collecting annual contribu- 
tions from its members, for regulating the times and places of 
meeting, for expelling such members as refuse to comply with the 
by-laws or regulations, and for the managing of the affairs of the 
Society, provided such rules and by-laws be not repugnant to the 
Constitution and Laws of this Commonwealth, or of the United 
States. 
Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That the persons herein before 
named, or any three of them, shall have power to call the first 
meeting of the members of said Society, in such manner as they 
may think proper. 
Secr. 5. Be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, 
amended, or repealed, at the pleasure of the Legislature. 
In House of Representatives, February 23, 1831, passed to be enacted. 
WM. B. CALHOUN, Speaker. 
In Senate, February 24, 1831, passed to be enacted. 
SAM’L LATHROP, President. 
FEBRUARY, 25, 1831. 
Approved 
T — -LEVI LINCOLN. 
A Copy of the Original Act, | ; 
Attest, EDWARD D. BANGS, 
Secretary of the Commonwealth. 
An Act to authorize the Boston Society or NaruraL History 
to amend its Constitution. y; à : 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatwes, m 
General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, a3 
follows : — . 
The Boston Sociery or Narurat History is hereby authorized 
and empowered to amend the eighth article of its Constitution, by 
inserting after the word ** members,” in the third line of the prin 
copy thereof, the following words: ‘ present at any two — 
tive meetings of the Society, the members having been first 
notified of any proposed alteration 
[Approved by the Governor, au 3d, 1852.] 
