and proceed to execute all or any of tlie powers vested in 

 them by this act. 



Sect. 3. Be it further enacted^ That the library and 

 cabinet of the said corporation shall be kept in the town of 

 Salem aforesaid. 



Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That the said Edward 

 Augustus Holyoke be and hereby is authorized to notify 

 the said first meeting of the said corporation, by an adver- 

 tisement thereof under his hand for seven days before such 

 meeting, in any newspaper printed in Salem aforesaid. 



Approved by the Governor, June 11, 1821. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

 AN ACT 



TO INCORPORATE THE 



ESSEX COUNTY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, 

 in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the 

 sa7ne. That Andrew Nichols, Williabi Oakes, and Wil- 

 liam PRESCOTT, and their associates, are hereby made a 

 Corporation by the name of the Essex County Natural 

 History Society, for the purpose of promoting the Science 

 of Natural History, with all the powers and privileges and 

 subject to all the liabilities contained in the forty-fourth 

 chapter of the Revised Statutes of this Commonwealth, 

 " passed on the fourth day of November in the year one 

 thousand eight hundred and thirty-five," and for the pur- 

 pose aforesaid may hold real estate to the amount of ten 

 thousand dollars, and personal estate, exclusive of the 

 books, papers and articles in the cabinet of said Society to 

 the amount of twenty thousand dollars. 



Approved by the Governor, Feb. 12, 1836. 



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