IV ACT OF INCORPORATION. 



rules and by-laws for the election and government of its members, 

 for the management of its property, for collecting annual contribu- 

 tions from its members, for regulating the times and places of 

 meeting, for expelling such members as refuse to comply with the 

 by-laws or regulations, and for the managing of the affairs of the 

 Society, provided such rules and by-laws be not repugnant to the 

 Constitution and Laws of this Commonwealth, or of the United 

 States. 



Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That the persons herein before 

 named, or any three of them, shall have power to call the first 

 meeting of the members of said Society, in such manner as they 

 may think proper. 



Sect. 5. Be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, 

 amended, or repealed, at the pleasure of the Legislature. 



In House of Representatives, February 23, 1831, passed to be enacted. 



WM. B. CALHOUN, Speaker. 



In Senate, February 24, 1831, passed to be enacted. 



SAM'L LATHROP, President 

 February, 25, 1831. 



Approved, 



LEVI LINCOLN. 



A Copy of the Original Act, 



Attest, EDWARD D. BANGS, 



Secretary of the Commonwealth. 



An Act to authorize the Boston Society of Natural History 

 to amend its Constitution. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in 

 General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as 

 follows : — 



The Boston Society of Natural History is hereby authorized 

 and empowered to amend the eighth article of its Constitution, by 

 inserting after the word " members," in the third line of the printed 

 copy thereof, the following words : " present at any two consecu- 

 tive meetings of the Society, the members having been first duly 

 notified of any proposed alteration." 



[Approved by the Governor, April 3d, 1852.] 



