AN ACT 



TO 



INCORPORATE THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 



OF NEW- YORK. 



PASSED MARCH 25, 1815. 



Whereas the members of a Literary and Philosophical Society, 

 instituted in the city of New-York, have petitioned for an act of incor- 

 poration, and the Legislature, considering it their duty to encourage 

 all laudable attempts to promote the useful arts, to diffuse knowledge, 

 and to enlighten the human mind : Therefore, 



Be it enacted by the people of the state of New-York, represented in 

 Senate and Assembly, That De Witt Clinton, James Kent, David Ho- 

 sack, John M. Mason, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Hugh Williamson, Sa- 

 muel Latham Mitchill, Wright Post, Cad wallader D. Colden, Brockholst 

 Livingston, Thomas Eddy, John Bowden, Peter Wilson, Charle.s 

 Wilkes, Robert Fulton, Peter Augustus Jay, John H. Hobart, Archi- 

 bald Bruce, Robert Adrain, William James M'Neven, Nathaniel Bowen, 

 John C. Osborn, Frederick W. Geisenhaimer, William Johnson, John 

 Pintard, John Anthon, Jacob Van den Heuvel, John W. Francis, 

 Alexander M'Leod, Thomas R. Mercein, James S. Stringham, John 

 Griscom, James Renwick, John A. Smith, Lewis Simond, Richard 

 Riker, Thomas Y. How, William Harris, Andrew Ellicott, Jacob 

 Morton, Rufus King, Richard Harison, Samuel Bard, Gouverneur 



