THE MANCHESTER INSTITUTE 



OF 



ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



ATTICLES OF ASSOCIATION. 



The subscribers being residents of New Hampshire and twenty-one years of 

 age associate themselves together by these articles of agreement to form a corpor- 

 ation under and by authority of Chapter 147 of the Public Statutes of New Hamp- 

 shire for the following purposes : 



The name of this corporation is The Manchester Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences. 



The objects for which the corporation is established are to promote the cultiva- 

 tion of the arts and sciences, to give a more general impulse and systematic direc- 

 tion to scientific research and encourage and stimulate the study of history, litera- 

 ture and industrial institutions. 



The control and management of the affairs of the corporation shall be vested 

 in a Council, which shall be constituted and elected as provided in the by-laws of 

 the association and shall have all the powers of the corporation. 



Membership and the rules and regulations for the government of the associa- 

 tion and management of its affairs shall be provided for in the by-laws of the cor- 

 poration, which may be ordained, established or amended by the association at 

 any meeting duly notified. 



The corporation shall have power to acquire by purchase, lease or otherwise, 

 real, personal or mixed estate to^such an amount as its'purposes may require and 

 it may sell and dispose of the same in such manner and at such time as shall be 

 deemed expedient. 



The first meeting for the purpose of organization shall be held at the rooms of 

 the Manchester Art Association, No. 913 Elm'street, in Manchester, New Hamp- 

 shire, on the thirty-first day of December, 1898. 



STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE. 



Received and recorded in Records Voluntary Corporations, Volume 10, pages 

 228 and 229-30, at Concord, this 30th day of December, 189S.] 



[L. S.] SAME. H. STEARNS, 



, Deputy Secretary of State. 



