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tuted, shall be the First Department — " The Albany 

 Lyceum of Natural History," as at present constituted, 

 the Second Department; and a Society for the promo- 

 tion of History and General Literature shall be formed 

 as soon as may be, which shall be the Third Depart- 

 ment: but until such society shall be formed and duly 

 organized, the said corporation shall consist and be 

 formed of the aforesaid First and Second Depart- 

 ments. 



§ 3. The officers of the said corporation shall be a 

 president, three vice-presidents, three corresponding 

 and three recording secretaries ; a treasurer, a libra- 

 rian, and as many curators as the Second Department 

 may direct. The president and treasurer shall be 

 annually elected; and the presidents of the depart- 

 ments shall be the vice-presidents ; and the corres- 

 ponding and recording secretaries of the departments 

 shall be the corresponding and recording secretaries 

 of the Institute ; the librarian of the First Department 

 shall be the librarian, and the curators of the Second 

 Department shall be the curators of the Institute; 

 Stephen Van Rensselaer shall be the first president, 

 and Simeon De Witt, at present president of the 

 Society for the promotion of Useful Arts, and Theo- 

 doric Romeyn Beck, at present president of the 

 Albany Lyceum of Natural History, shall be the 

 vice-presidents, and William May ell the treasurer 

 of the Institute; who shall severally hold their re- 

 spective offices until others shall be chosen in their 

 places. 



§ 4. The elective officers shall be chosen by a 

 plurality of the votes of the members of the Institute 

 present, at a regular meeting for that purpose convened, 

 according to the by-laws of the Institute, of which pre- 

 vious notice shall be given in at least one of the news- 

 papers published in the city of Albany. 



