APPENDIX. 



C\varteY t\ie Society for t\\e $i:oti\otion 



-4n .4c* to incorporate a Society for the promotion of Useful 



Arts, passed April 2, 1804. 

 ' Whereas the institution of a society, calculated to pro- 

 mote, collect and preserve the knowledge of Useful arts, is 

 intimately connected with the public welfare and prosperity : 

 Therefore, 



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

 presented in senate and assembly, That all such persons wh6 

 shall, at the time of the passing of this act, be members of 

 the society for the promotion of agriculture, arts and manu- 

 factures, and such other persons who shall from time to tim6 

 become members of the society hereby intended to be incor- 

 porated, and shall within ten months after the passing of 

 this act, signify their intention in writing, subscribed by 

 them respectively, to Samuel L. Mitchill or Benjamin De 

 Witt, the present secretaries of the said society, to become 

 members of the society hereby intended to be incorporated, 

 and shall pay to either of them two dollars for the use of the 

 said society, shall be, and hereby are, constituted a body 

 corporate and politic by the name of " the Society for the 

 promotion of Useful Arts ;" that by that name the said so- 

 ciety shall have perpetual succession ; and that the said so- 

 ciety and their successors shall be capable in law to sue and 

 be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, 

 defend and be defended, in all courts and in all actions, 

 suits, matters and causes whatsoever, and to purchase, take, 

 receive, hold and enjoy, any real or personal estate, in fee 

 simple or otherwise, and the same to lease, sell, dispose of 

 and convey, for the purpose of the better enabling them to 

 carry into effect such measures as to the said society shall 

 seem best calculated to promote agriculture, arts and manu- 

 factures within this state : Provided, That the clear annual 

 value of such real and personal estate shall not exceed the 

 sum of two thousand five hundred dollars : That the said 

 society shall have a common seal, which may from time to 

 time be changed or altered at its pleasure. 



And be it further enacted, That the said society shall, 

 from time to time, forever hereafter, have power to make, 

 constitute, ordain and establish such by-laws and regula- 

 tions as they shall judge proper for the election of their ofiV 



