COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

 AN ACT 



TO INCORPORATE THE 



ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



Sect, 1. Be it enacted by the Senate mid House of Rep- 

 resentaiives, in General Court assembled^ and by the 

 authority of the same, That Edward Augustus Holyoke, of 

 Salem, in the county of Essex, doctor of medicine, and 

 such other persons as have associated or may hereafter as- 

 sociate themselves with him for the purpose of collecting 

 and preserving materials for the civil and natural history 

 of the said county of Essex, be, and they hereby are, made 

 a body corporate and politic by the name of the Essex 

 Historical Society ; and by that name they and their 

 successors may sue and be sued, and shall be capable in 

 law to take and hold in fee simple, or otherwise, lands, 

 tenements, rents, and hereditaments, not exceeding in the 

 whole the yearly vahie of two thousand dollars, exclusive 

 of the building or buildings which may be actually occu- 

 pied for the purposes of the said corporation ; and they 

 shall also be capable in law to take, receive, and hold per- 

 sonal estate, to an amount, the yearly value of which shall 

 not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars, exclusive of 

 the books, papers, memorials, and other articles composing 

 the library and cabinet of the said corporation ; and they 

 shall also have power to sell, demise, exchange, or other- 

 wise dispose of, all or any part of their lands, tenements, 

 rents, hereditaments, and other property aforesaid, for the 

 benefit of the said corporation ; and shall also have a com- 

 mon seal, which they may break, alter, and renew at their 

 pleasure ; and shall also have power to make by-laws, 

 with suitable penalties, and not repugnant to the laws of 

 this commonwealth. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted^ That the said corpora- 

 tion shall have power, from time to time, as they may 

 think fit, to elect a president and such other officers as 

 they shall judge necessary ; and at their first meeting they 

 may agree upon the manner of calling future meetings. 



