THE CULTIVATOR: 
A Monthly Publication, devoted to Agriculture—eacU ."Vo. US pages. 
Voi>. III. ALBANY, JUNE, 1836.—(67 State-street.) No. 4. 
PUBLISHED BY THE N. Y. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
J. BUEL, Conductor. 
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THE CULTIVATOR. 
To improve the Soil and the Mind. 
NEW-YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. 
Books of subscription to the stock of the New-York State Agri¬ 
cultural School, will be opened at Albany, New-York, Poughkeep¬ 
sie, Hudson and Buffalo, on the first day of June inst. Shares $25 
—five per cent to be paid on subscribing- 
ICf' At Albany, the books will be opened at Bement's Hotel; at 
Poughkeepsie at Hatch’s Hotel—at 12 o'clock meridian. 
Jesse Buel, Albany, John P. Beekman, KinderIwok, 
L L. F. Allen, Buffalo, Joab Center, Hudson, 
Henry Yates, New-York, John Delafield, New-York, 
Walter Cunningham, Poughkeepsie. 
AGRICUTURAL SCHOOL. 
We publish below, the “act to incorporate the New-York State 
Agricultural School.’’ The books of subscription to the stock will 
be kept open by the commissioners, at their several residences, dur¬ 
ing the month of June, unless sooner filled. This stock, it is believ¬ 
ed, will afford a safe and judicious investment. But the law does 
not appeal to mercenary motives—it has higher aims—its object is 
to improve the social and moral condition of the state, and to in¬ 
crease the products of its soil;—it is designed to give to productive 
labor the efficient aid of science, and to concentrate and teach the 
best modes of practice—and to elevate, withal, the intellectual and 
moral character of that portion of our citizens, who are emphatical¬ 
ly the guardians of our civil and political rights. It is an untried 
experiment, and if it succeeds according to the hopes and expecta¬ 
tions of its friends, similar schools will ere long be established among 
us. With these high objects in prospect, it is confidently believed, 
that a disposition will not be lacking, among our philanthropic and 
enterprizing citizens, promptly to lend their means and their influ¬ 
ence, in carrying its provisions into effect. 
An act to incorporate the New- York Stale Agricultural School. Passed 
May 6, 1836. 
The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly 
do enact as follows : 
§ 1. William L. Marcy, John Tracy, Jesse Buel, Stephen Van Rensselaer 
Henry Yales, Gideon Lee, Joab Center, John P. Beekman Cornelius w! 
Lawrence, Philip Hone, Benjamin Ivnower, Gouverneur Ogden, Erastus 
Corning, James Wadsworth, David E. Evans, Hiram Pratt, Walter Cunning¬ 
ham, Gilbert O. Fowler, Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, Nicholas Devereux Antho¬ 
ny Van Bergen, Garrit Wendell, Archibald M’Intyre, Thomas D. Burrell John 
Greig, Thomas W. Olcott, Z/baA. Leland, George P. Oakley, John Delafield 
Edward P. Livingston, John Townsend, Lewis F. Allen, and all such persons 
as now are or may hereafter become associated with them, are hereby consti- 
; tuted a body corporate, by the name of “ The New-York State Agricultural 
!, School,” for the purposes of instruction in literature and science, and improve¬ 
ment in scientific and practical agriculture and the mechanic arts. 
S 2. The capital stock of the said corporation shall be one hundred thousand 
dollars, with liberty to increase it to two hundred thousand dollars, to be di¬ 
vided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, which shall be considered as per¬ 
sonal property, and be assignable in such manner as the said corporation may, 
in its by-laws, from time to time, provide : which said capital stock shall be 
exclusively devoted to the purposes and objects of the said corporation, as de¬ 
clared in the first section of this act, and to ro other purposes or objects what¬ 
ever. And to the same end, the said corporation shall have power to take 
hold, and convey real estate to the extent of its said capital. 
§ 3. Jesse Buel, Lewis F. Allen, Henry Yates, John P. Beekman, Joab 
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Center, Walter Cunningham and John Delafield, shall be commissioners tore- 
ceive subscriptions for, and to distribute the said capital of the said corpora¬ 
tion. 
§ 4. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall, within thirty days 
after the passage of this act, open a subscription book for the said stock, at 
such times and places as they shall appoint; and they shall give at least four¬ 
teen days’ previous notice thereof in at least two of the agricultural papers in 
this state. 
§ 5. At the first subscription to the capital stock of the said corporation, no 
subscription above one thousand dollars, by or in behalf of the same individu¬ 
al, shall be received. Five per cent on each share subscribed for shall be paid 
to the said commmissioners at the time of making such subscription, forty-five 
per cent thereon when afterwards called for by them; and the remaining fifty 
per cent at the expiration of six months from the time of such subscription. 
§ fi. If the whole of the capital stock of the said corporation be not taken up 
at the first subscription thereto, the said commissioners, or a majority of them, 
may receive further subscriptions thereto, from time to time, until the whole 
capital stock of the said corporation shall be taken up. 
§ 7. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall, within twelve 
months after the passage of this act, proceed to distribute the capital stock of 
the said corporation among the subscribers thereto; and incase there should 
be subscriptions to more titan the amount of such stock, it shall be the duty of 
suclt commissioners to apportion the same among the subscribers thereto, in 
such manner as they may deem most advantageous to the interests of the said 
institution, and best calculated to promote its objects. 
§ 8. The stock, property snd concerns of the said corporation shall be ma¬ 
naged by thirty-two trustees, of whom the governor and lieutenant-governor 
of the state, for the time being, shall always, by virtue of their offices, be two; 
and the remaining thirty shall be stockholders of the said corporation, and citi¬ 
zens of this state. They shall be elected annually, and any seven thereof 
shall be a quorum for the transaction of the ordinary business of the said corpo¬ 
ration. 
§ 9. The persons named in the first section of this act shall be the first trus¬ 
tees of the said corporation, and shall hold their offices until the first Tuesday 
of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and until others 
shall be elected in their places. 
§ 10. The trustees of the said corporation for every subsequent year, except 
tlie governor and lieutenant-governor, shall be elected on the first Tuesday of 
February in each and every year, at such hour of the day and at such place as 
the trustees for the time being shall appoint, and of which they shall give pub¬ 
lic notice not less than fourteen days previous to the time of holding such elec¬ 
tion, by advertisement to be inserted in at least two of the agricultural papers 
in this state. 
§ 11- At every election of trustees, each stockholder shall be entitled to one 
vote on each share of stock owned by him, and which he shall have held for 
at least fourteen days next preceding such election. 
§12. All elections for trustees, other than the governor and lieutenant-go¬ 
vernor, shall be held under the inspection of three stockholders, not being 
trustees, to be appointed previous to every election by the board of trustees 
for the time being. Such election shall be by ballot, and by plurality of the 
votes of the stockholders or their proxies then present; and the thirty persons 
who shall receive the greatest number of votes shall, together with the gover¬ 
nor and lieutenant-governor for the time being, be the trustees of the said cor¬ 
poration: and if at any such election for trustees, two or more persons shall 
have an equal number of votes, then the trustees who shall have been duly 
elected, shall proceed by ballot, and by plurality of votes to determine w hich 
of the said persons, so having an equal numbers of votes, shall be trustee or 
trustees, so as to complete the whole number. 
§ 13. If any trustee of the said corporation, other than the governor or 
lieutenant-governor, shall cease to be a stockholder thereof, or shall remove 
out of the slate, his office shall thereby become vacant; and whenever any 
vacancy shall happen among the trustees, such vacancy shall be tilled for the 
remaider of the year in which it shall so happen, by such person possessing 
the qualifications above required for trustee of this corporation, as the remain¬ 
ing trustees for the time being, or a majority of them, shall appoint. 
§ 14. The trustees of said corporation, as soon as may be after their appoint¬ 
ment or elect ion under this act, shall, in like manner, proceed to elect, of their 
number, a president, two vice-presidents, a treasurer, a recording secretary 
and corresponding secretary, who shall respectively hold their offices for one 
year, and until others are elected in their places. They shall also appoint such 
professors, teachers, agents, and other persons us may be necessary to conduct 
the proper business, and accomplish the declared objects of the said corpora¬ 
tion. 
§ 15. The said trustees shall, as soon as maybe, proceed to purchase a farm 
of about five hundred acres of land, either contiguous to, or near the Hudson 
river, and as nigh to the city of Albany as may be convenient; and shall cause 
to be erected thereon sucli buildings as may be suitable and necessary, and 
make all such other arrangements as may bo proper for the future business of 
the said corporation, and :or the accomplishment of its objects. 
§ 16. The said corporation, in exercising its power of making by-laws for its 
own government, shill make it an indispensable requirement that the profes 
sors, teachers, and pupils of the school hereby intended to be authorized and 
established, shall, unless prevented by sickness or olher reasonable cause oc¬ 
cupy themselves for at least one-half of the time the said school is in session- 
