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stitute, ordain and establish such bye-laws, rules, ordinances and regulations, as they from time to time shall judge proper for the election of their officers, for the election or admission of new members of the said corporation, and the terms and manner of admission, and the sums that shall be paid yearly by the members of the said society; Provided always, That such sum shall not exceed the sum Provilo. of two dollars yearly and every year; and also, for the management and disposition of their stock, property, estate and effects, for the purposes of carrying into effect the objects of this society, and for fixing the times and places of the meetings of the said society, and touching the duties and conduct of the officers of the said corporation, and all such other matters as appertain to the business, end and purposes for which the said corporation is by this act constituted, and for no other purposes whatsoever; Provided Further proalways, That no regulation shall be made in any wise to controul the religious principles, or affect the rights of conscience of any person whatsoever; And provided fur- Further prother, That such bye-laws, rules and regulations, be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States or of this state.

VI. And be it further enacted, That this act be, and hereby is declared to be a public act, and that the same. be construed in all courts and places favourably for every purpose therein intended.

TWENTY-SECOND SESSION. CHAP. XXIII. An ACT to incorporate the Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New-York.

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HEREAS Thomas Pearsall, John Christopher Preamble, Kunze, Robert Lenox, Cornelius Ray, Archibald Gracie, John Stark Robertson, Henry Remsen, William Houston, Andrew Hamersly, John Charlton, David M. Clarkson, William Jauncey, J. C. Vanden Heuvel and others, influenced by principles of benevolence and charity, associated as an institution under the style of The society of the lying-in hospital of the city of New-York, for the useful purpose of establishing an asylum for the reception of women in a state of pregnancy, who are unable to procure the necessary medical assistance and nursing during the period of their confinement in child-bed, by their petition presented to the legislature have prayed to be incorporated, the better to enable them to carry into effect the salutary object of their institution: Therefore,

I. BE it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That all such persons as

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be made at the hour and place to be appointed by the said governors; that the election for governors after the year one thousand and eight hundred, shall be held annually on the second Wednesday in April, at such place and hour as a majority of the governors for the time being shall appoint, of which election public notice shall be given by the said governors for the space of one week in two of the daily newspapers printed in the said city; that if any vacancies vacancy shall happen among the said governors so elect- how to be ed, by death, resignation or removal, such vacancy shall be filled by a special election for the purpose, to be held in the same manner as the annual elections are made, and at such time and place as shall be provided for by the byelaws of the said corporation; and in case it should happen Elections not that an election of governors should not be held on any day, when pursuant to this act it ought to have been made, the corporation shall not for that cause be deemed to be dissolved, but it shall and may be lawful on any other day to hold an election of governors, in such manner as the bye-laws of the said corporation shall prescribe.

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III. And be it further enacted, That the governors shall Governors not take or receive any compensation for their services; or receive aand for the time being shall have power to make and pre- tion for their scribe such bye-laws, rules and regulations as to them shall fervices, but appear needful and proper, touching the management make byeand disposition of the stock, property, estate and effects of laws, &c. the said corporation, and touching the duties and conduct of the officers of the said corporation, and touching all other matters as appertain to the business, ends and purposes for which the said corporation is by this act instituted; and shall also have power to appoint an apothecary, house-pupils, matron, steward, nurses and servants for carrying on the business of the said institution; Provided, That Proviča. for the appropriation or disposal of any of the capital stock a number not less than seven shall constitute a quorum, of which number the president or in his absence the vicepresident of the board to be appointed in virtue of this act shall be one; Provided also, That such bye-laws, rules Further provito. and regulations shall not be repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States or of this state.

IV. And be it further enacted, That the governors at their first meeting, and also at their first meeting in every year next after the said annual election on the second Wednesday in April, shall elect by ballot from their number a president, vice-president, a treasurer and a secretary, and that the officers thus elected, shall immediately enter upon their respective offices and hold the same until the next election of governors, and it shall be the duty of the president or vice-president to preside at all meetings of the governors.

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V. And be it further enacted, That the governors shall propose at one meeting and elect by ballot at the next a number of physicians, not exceeding four, to attend the said hospital, and to render all necessary medical aid to the persons admitted to the benefit of this institution, and that the said physicians remain in office until the next election for governors, after which time they are to be annually elected.

VI. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be and clared a pub hereby is declared to be a public act, and shall be construed in all courts and places benignly and favourably for every beneficial purpose herein intended.

An ACT to ascertain the Line of Division between the
Towns of Trenton and Remsen, in the County of Onei-
da, and for incorporating an Aqueduct Association in
Whitesborough, in said County.

Passed 25th March, 1799. Sess. 22, ch. 48.

[The two firft fections did not relate to the subject of the incorporation. E.]

An ACT to incorporate the Society of Mechanics of the City and Vicinity of Albany, for purposes of Education and Charity.

Passed 6th March, 1801. Sess. 24, ch. 21.

An ACT to incorporate the Stockholders of the Columbian Insurance Company.

Passed 21st March, 1801. Sess. 24, ch. 56.

An ACT for incorporating an Aqueduct Association in the Village of Cazenovia, County of Chenango. Passed 31st March, 1801. Sess. 24, ch. 101.

SPECIAL RELIGIOUS

Incorporations.

[The acts under this head relate exclusively to particular churches, and therefore come within the description of private acts. The general act on this subject is to be seen in the 1st volume. It has however been deemed conducive to the convenience of the persons interested, to collect and arrange the titles of these acts in chronological order.-In addition to the titles here collected, there are several acts containing grants to particular churches, but as they are obsolete as well as private, it was not requisite to notice them. E.]

SPECIAL RELIGIOUS INCORPORATIONS.

An ACT to incorporate the Ministers, Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Tappan, or Town of Orange, in Orange County.

Passed 25th February, 1783. Sess. 6, ch. 17.

An ACT to remove Doubts which may have arisen respecting the Charter Rights of the Minister, Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New-York, in consequence of the late Invasion of this State.

Passed 17th March, 1784. Sess. 7, ch. 9.

An ACT making such alterations in the Charter of the Corporation of Trinity Church, as to render it more conformable to the Constitution of the State.

Passed 17th April, 1784. Sess. 7, ch. 33.

An ACT to amend the Charter of the Corporation for the
Relief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen in the
Communion of the Church of England in America.
Passed 19th February, 1787. Sess. 10, ch. 34.

An Act to enable the Corporation of Trinity Church, in the City of New-York, to assume the Name therein mentioned.

Passed 10th March, 1788. Sess. 11, ch. 66.

An ACT to enable the Corporation of St. Peter's Church, in the City of Albany, to assume the Name therein mentioned.

Passed 3d March, 1789. Sess. 12, ch. 51.

An ACT for altering certain Clauses in the Charter of the Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

Passed 5th April, 1790. Sess. 13, ch. 48.

An ACT to enable the Corporation therein mentioned to assume the Name of the Rector and Inhabitants of Poughkeepsie in Communion of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New-York.

Passed 5th April, 1792. Sess. 15, ch. 46.

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