114 N'atural History Society of H. Bulletin Ko. lY. 
ACT OF lACOEPOEATlOFT. 
Extracts from^ Acts of the General Assembly of Her 
Majesty’s Province of New Brunswick. 
CAP. XXIX. 
An Act to Incorporate the Natural History Society of New 
Brunswick. 
Sec. Sec. 
1. Society incorporated. 3. -Society may make by-laws, etc. 
2. Society may hold real estate ; 
amount. 
Passed ^rd May^ 1883. 
B e it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative Council, 
and Assembly, as follows : 
1. That LeBaron Botsford, M.D., George F. Matthew, George U. 
Hay, James A. Estey, Lucius C. Allison, M.I)., G. Ernest Fairweather, 
William J. Wilson, Robert Chalmers, Montague Chamberlain, Harold 
Gilbert, W. F. Coleman, M.D., R. Peniston Starr and William F. 
Best, their associates, successors, and assigns, be and they are hereby 
created and declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name 
of “The Natural History Society of New Brunswick,” and by that 
name shall have all the general powders and privileges made incident 
to a Corporation by Act of Assembly in this Province, or otherwise, 
for the purpose of promoting the study of Physical Sciences, the 
forming a General and Provincial Museum, and Scientific Library, 
and facilitating generally the acquisition and dissemination of useful 
knowledge. 
2. The said Corporation shall have power and authority to take 
and hold real and personal property for the puiqioses of this Act, 
provided that the value of the real estate held by said Society shall 
not exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and may sue and be 
sued in its corporate name in any Court of law or equity, or other- 
wise how^soever. 
3. The said Corporation shall also have power and authority from 
time to time to enact and pass such by-laws not contrary to law as it 
may deem necessary and desirable for its management and control. 
