two Vice-Presidents, four Counsellors, eight Assistant Counsellors, a Secretary and a Treasurer, to be elected and appointed annually, at such time and place within the City of New York, as shall be provided for by the By-Laws of the said association, and until the annual meeting to be had in December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, the board of officers of said Society shall be as follows, viz.: Lynde Catlin, President: John Stearns, M.D., First VicePresident; William Burns, Second Vice-President; Robert Buloid, Thomas Fessenden, Stephen Brown, M.D., William P. Haws, Counsellors; Elijah Mead, M.D., Joshua Geer, Sheppard Knapp, Samuel T. Tisdale, William A. Beecker, Joseph Hoxie, John Spring and Sidney Brooks, Assistant Counsellors; Ezra Weeks, Treasurer, and Alfred A. Weeks, Secretary.

SECTION 3.-The said corporation shall have power to purchase, receive by devise and hold real estate in the City of New York, to the value of twenty-five thousand dollars, and to sell or mortgage real estate, and also to receive by bequest and possess personal estate, so that the whole of their estate shall not at any time exceed in value fifty thousand dollars; one-half of their annual income, from initiation fees and annual dues, shall be annually expended in benefactions to the poor according to the Constitution and By-Laws of said corporation, and they shall have power to loan their moneys on mortgage, or invest the same from time to time, in any public stock of the United States, or of any one of the States of the Union, or in the stock of any bank chartered or to be chartered by the Legislature of the State of New York.

SECTION 4.-The Legislature may at any time hereafter alter, amend or repeal this Act.

SECTION 5.-This corporation shall possess the general powers and be subject to the general restrictions and liabilities contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes.

AMENDMENTS TO

ACT OF INCORPORATION.

AN AMENDMENT TO THE ACT OF INCORPORATION OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY IN THE CITY OF NEW York.

AN ACT to amend and in addition to an Act entitled "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK," passed April fifteen, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

Passed May 4, 1872.

The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.-The first section of the Act entitled "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK," passed April fifteen, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SECTION 1.-All such persons as are now members of the Charitable and Literary Association in the City of New York, called the NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY IN THE City and State of New York, and all persons who shall hereafter become members of said Association, by being elected such members according to the Constitution and By-Laws thereof, shall be and hereby are constituted a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, by the name of the NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, for the purpose of affording pecuniary relief to poor

persons of New England origin, establishing and maintaining a library, and for other charitable and literary purposes.

SECTION 2.-The second section of the said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SECTION 2.-The estates and concerns of said corporation shall be governed and directed by a board of officers, members of said corporation, consisting of a President, two Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer and sixteen Directors, who shall be chosen by the Society at such time and place and for such term of office as shall be provided for by the Constitution and By-Laws of said association.

SECTION 3.-The third section of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SECTION 3. Said corporation may purchase and take and hold by purchase, gift, grant or devise, real and personal estate, to such an amount as it shall deem necessary or expedient for the purposes of its organization, not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, with power to sell, mortgage or lease the same or any part thereof. And said corporation may, from time to time, invest and loan its funds on mortgage or other real or personal security.

SECTION 4.-The fourth section of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SECTION 4.-The said corporation shall have power to make and adopt a Constitution and By-Laws, Rules and Regulations for the admission, suspension and expulsion of its members and their government, the election of its officers, and to determine their terms of office and define their duties, and for the safekeeping and management of its property and funds, and for such other purposes as are deemed requisite and not inconsistent with this Act, or the Constitution or laws of this State; and, from time to time, alter, amend or repeal such Constitution. By-Laws and Regulations.

SECTION 5.-This Act shall take effect immediately.

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AMENDMENT OF 1907.

CHAPTER 125.

AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and fiftythree of the laws of eighteen hundred and thirty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate the New England Society in the City of New York" in relation to the members voting by proxy.

Became a law April 3, 1907, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.-Section four of chapter one hundred and fifty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and thirty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate the New England Society in the City of New York," as amended by chapter five hundred and fifteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SECTION 4.-The said corporation shall have power to make and adopt a Constitution and By-Laws, Rules and Regulations for the admission, suspension and expulsion of its members and their government, the election of its officers, and to determine their terms of office and define their duties, and for the safekeeping and management of its property and funds, and for such other purposes as are deemed requisite and not inconsistent with this Act, or the Constitution or laws of this State; and, from time to time, alter, amend or repeal such Constitution, By-Laws and Regulations. No member of such Society shall vote by proxy at any meeting unless provision therefor shall have been made in the By-Laws.

SECTION 2.-This Act shall take effect immediately.

BY-LAWS OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY

Adopted January 14, 1901.

ARTICLE I.

Any male person of the age of eighteen years and over, being native, or descendant of a native, of any of the New England States, and of good moral character, may, at any meeting of the Board of Officers, or at any meeting of the Society, by a vote of the majority

BERSHIP.

of the officers or members present at CONDITIONS OF MEMsuch meeting, be admitted a member of the Society; and being so admitted, shall become a member thereof, on subscribing to the Constitution, and paying to the Treasurer of the Society an admission fee of ten dollars, and five dollars for annual dues, which shall be in full for the year in which he is elected.

Any person elected a member of the Society, and in good standing therein, may become a life member (exempt from the payment of annual dues) by the

payment into the treasury of the sum LIFE MEMBERSHIP. of fifty dollars at one payment, in

addition to the payment of ten dollars for admission.

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