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CHARTEE OF THE ALBANY mSTITUTE. 



An Act to incorporate the Albany Institute. Passed Feb- 

 ruary 27, 1829. Chap. 43. 



Whereas the Society for the Promotion of Useful 

 Arts, and the Albany Lyceum of Natural History, 

 have agreed to articles of association, for the purpose 

 of forming an Institution for the promotion of Science 

 and Literature, to be called " The Albany Institute." 

 Therefore, 



The People of the State of New York, represented in 

 Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : 



§ 1. All such persons as shall at the time of the pas- 

 sage of this act, be members of the said " Society for 

 the Promotion of Useful Arts," or of the Albany 

 Lyceum of Natural History," and such other persons 

 as shall from time to time become members of the 

 same, or of the third department herein after men- 

 tioned, shall be and are hereby constituted a body 

 corporate and politic, by the name of " The Al- 

 bany Institute ; " and the annual income of the 

 real and personal estate which the said corporation 

 is authorized to hold, shall not exceed ten thousand 

 dollars. 



§ 2. The said corporation shall consist of three de- 

 partments, viz : First, the department of Physical 

 Sciences and the Arts : Second, the department of 

 Natural History, and. Third, the department of His- 

 tory and General Literature. " The Society for the 

 Promotion of Useful Arts," as at present consti- 



