cers, for prescribing their respective functions, and the mode 

 of discharging the same ; for the admission of new members 

 into the said society ; for the government of the officers and 

 members thereof ; for ascertaining an equal annual rate of 

 contributions towards the funds thereof ; for regulating the 

 times and places of meeting for managing the affairs of the 

 said society, and for suspending or expelling such members 

 of the said society, as shall neglect or refuse to comply with 

 the by-laws and regulations thereof, so as such by-laws and 

 regulations shall not be repugnant to the laws of the United 

 States or of this state. 



And be it further enacted, That a president and one or 

 more vice-presidents, nine counsellors, two or more secreta- 

 ries, a treasurer, and such other officers as the said society 

 shall, by any by-law, from time to time appoint, shall be 

 elected by a plurality of votes of the members of the said 

 society present at any election : That such election shall be 

 annually held in the senate chamber, or at such other place 

 as the said society shall from time to time by by-law direct 

 and appoint, on the Tuesday next succeeding the day on 

 which both houses of the legislature shall have been formed, 

 ready to proceed to business, after the first day of January 

 in every year : That the said officers shall respectively hold 

 their offices until the next annual election day, or until others 

 shall be elected in their stead : That if the annual election 

 shall not be held at any of the days for that purpose appoint- 

 ed, it shall be lawful to make such election at any other day ; 

 and that the present, or one of the vice-presidents, with any 

 twelve or 1110'*' 0 . : .c said socle'. 7, meeting at the place de- 

 signated for that purpose by any by-law, shall constitute a 

 legal meeting of the said society. 



And be it further enacted^ That the books, papers, mon- 

 ies and effects of the society for the promotion of agricul- 

 ture, arts and manufactures, shall be and the same are here- 

 by with the approbation, and at the instance of the last men- 

 tioned corporation^ vested in the said society for the promo- 

 tion of useful arts, from and after the fourth day of May 

 next, on which day the corporation aforesaid expires by its 



And be it further enacted. That the members of the legis- 

 lature snail 'in that capacity be honorary members of the 

 said society; bra shall not \ote at elections, or have any 

 voice in the disposition of the funds of the said society. 



And be it further enacted, That Robert R. Livingston 

 shall be the president, and Ezra IVHommedieu the vice- 

 president of the said society, until the second annual elec- 

 tion day. 



