for OF THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. New-York: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY, 200 MULBERRY-STREET. 1857. 66 J. P. DURBIN, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 66 LEROY SWORMSTEDT, ASSISTANT TREASURER JOHN FALCONER, WM. A. Cox, WM. TRUSLOW, E. L. FANCHER, S. P. PATTERSON, DR. S. A. PURDY, DR. W. C. PALMER, G. T. COBB, J. H. TAFT, M. F. ODELL, W. W. CORNELL, B. W. BENSON, T. A. HOWE, H. M. FORRESTER, W. W. WHITE, NOAH WORRALL, W. R. MARTIN, JOHN REID, H. J. BAKER, J. O. FOWLER, O. HOYT. DUP EXCH 23 MAR 1808 ACT OF INCORPORATION. AN ACT to incorporate the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Passed April 9, 1839. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Robert R. Roberts, Joshua Soule, Elijah Hedding, James O. Andrew, Beverly Waugh, Thomas A. Morris, Daniel Ostrander, Nathan Bangs, Thomas Mason, George Lane, Francis Hall, Joseph Smith, Peter Badeau, D. M. Reese, M. D., George Innis, M. Houseworth, Philip Romaine, L. S. Burling, J. P. Aimes, John Valentine, William Gale, Abraham Stagg, Erastus Hyde, Henry Moore, James Harper, Thomas Brown, Peter Macnamara, William B. Skidmore, Stephen Dando, J. B. Oakley, Henry Worrall, George Suckley, T. Barrett, M. D., G. Coutant, J. L. Phelps, M. D., B. F. Howe, Israel D. Disosway, G. P. Disosway, Benjamin Disbrow, Ralph Mead, Jotham S. Fountain, Samuel Martin; and all persons who now are, or hereafter may become, associated with them, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church," and by that name and style be capable of purchasing, holding, and conveying, such real estate as the purposes of the Corporation shall require; but the annual income of the real estate to be held by them shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars. § 2. The object of the said Corporation is to diffuse more generally the blessings of education, civilization, and Christianity throughout the United States, and elsewhere. 3. The management and disposition of the affairs and property of the said Corporation shall be vested in a Board of Managers, to be elected annually on the third Monday in April in the city of New-York. |