ACT OF INCORPORATION. 



In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. 



An Act to incorporate the Boston Society of Natural 

 History. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- 

 tatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the 

 same, That Benjamin D. Greene, George Hayward, John Ware, 

 Walter Channing, Edward Brooks, Amos Binney, Jr., D. Hum- 

 phreys Storer, Simon E. Greene, Joshua B. Flint, William Grigg, 

 George B. Emerson, and Henry Codman, with their associates, 

 and such other persons as shall from time to time be duly admitted 

 members of the Corporation hereby created, be, and they hereby 

 are constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, and by that name they 

 shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable of suing and 

 being sued, of prosecuting and defending unto final judgment, in 

 all Courts and places whatsoever, and may have a Common Seal, 

 with power to change the same at pleasure. 



Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said Society shall have 

 power to hold real or personal estate by gift, grant, devise, or other- 

 wise, and the same or any part thereof to alien or convey, provided 

 that the clear annual income of such personal and real estate, shall 

 not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars, nor be applied to 

 any other purposes than the encouragement and promotion of the 

 science of Natural History. 



Sect. 3. Be it furUier enacted, That said Society shall have 

 power to elect a President and all other necessary officers ; to make 



