COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



AN ACT 

 TO INCORPORATE THE 



ESSEX INSTITUTE 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives^ 

 in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the 

 same, as follows : 



Sect. 1. The members of the Essex Historical Society, 

 and the members of the Essex County Natural History 

 Society, together with such persons as may hereafter^asso- 

 ciate with them, are hereby made a corporation, by the 

 name of the " Essex Institute ;" with all the powers and 

 privileges, and subject to all the liabilities, contained in the 

 forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. 



Sect. 2. Said corporation may hold real estate to the 

 amount of thirty thousand dollars, and personal estate, 

 exclusive of the books, papers, and articles in the cabinets 

 of said corporation, to the amount of twenty thousand dol- 

 lars. 



Sect. 3. The Essex Institute shall have for its object 

 the advancement of horticulture, in addition to the objects 

 for which the Essex Historical Society and the Essex 

 County Natural History Society were incorporated. 



Sect. 4. All property now owned by said Essex Histo- 

 rical Society and said Essex County Natural History So- 

 ciety, and all property that may accrue to either of said 

 societies, shall belong to the Essex Institute. 



Sect. 5. All donations and bequests which may have 

 been made to the Essex Historical Society, or to the Essex 

 County Natural History Society, sha,ll accrue to, and be- 



