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EDITORIAL. 
The people of the State of Neiv York, represented in Senate and As¬ 
sembly, do enact as follows: 
Section 1 . Any five or more persons of full age, citizens of 
tlie United States, a majority of whom shall be citizens of this 
State, who shall desire to associate themselves for benevolent, 
charitable, scientific , or missionary purposes, may make, sign, and 
acknowledge before any officer authorized to take the acknowl¬ 
edgment of deeds in this State, and file in the office of the Secre¬ 
tary of State, and also in the office of the Clerk of the county in 
which the business of such society is to be conducted, a certificate 
in writing in which shall be stated the name or title by which 
such society shall be known in law, the particular business and 
objects of such society, the number of trustees, directors or man¬ 
agers to manage the same, and the names of the trustees, direc¬ 
tors, or managers of such society for the first year of its existence; 
but such certificate shall not be filed unless by the written con¬ 
sent and approbation of one of the justices of the Supreme 
Court of the district in which the place of business, or principal 
office of such company or association, shall be located, to be 
endorsed on such certificate. 
Laws of New York, 93d Session, 1870. Chapter 51. 
AN ACT TO AMEND THE U ACT FOR THE INCORPORATION OF BENEVO¬ 
LENT, CHARITABLE, SCIENTIFIC, AND MISSIONARY SOCIETIES,” 
PASSED APRIL TWELFTH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT. 
The people of the State of Neiv York , represented in Senate and As¬ 
sembly, do enact as follows: 
Section 1 . The Act for the incorporation of benevolent, chari¬ 
table, scientific and missionary purposes, passed April twelfth, 
eighteen hundred and forty-eight, shall be deemed to authorize 
the incorporation of any society for the purpose of establishing 
and maintaining any educational institution , dec., dec., dec. 
Section 3. Any university or college incorporated under the 
said Act, or under this Act, may take and hold, by gift, grant, 
devise, or bequest, &c., &c., &c. 
What reads plainer than this? Is the American Veterinary 
College the only institution which has availed itself of the privi¬ 
leges of these laws ? No. The University of Syracuse is char¬ 
tered under the same power. Its literary, legal, theological and 
medical departments issue their diplomas by the same right; and 
were ever those degrees contested by any other institution ? 
