in Columbia College, to promote the true interests, influence and efficiency of Columbia College as an institution of sound learning and practical education, and with these objects to establish lectureships, to have meetings of the members of said corporation for social and literary purposes and for the management of its business, to appoint from time to time (if the trustees of Columbia College shall consent thereto, and with such restrictions, if any, as said trustees shall prescribe) such number of trustees of said college as said college may, by general rules, or from time to time, authorize said corporation hereby constituted to appoint.

SEC. 3. The said corporation, at one or more special meetings to be called by its standing committee for that purpose, shall have power to frame its constitution and by-laws, with provisions therein for subsequent amendments of the same, provided the said constitution, by-laws and amendments be not inconsisent with the laws or constitution of the United States or of this State, and that there be present at such special meeting at least thirty members.

SEC. 4. The officers of said corporation shall be, until otherwise prescribed by their constitution, a president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer, who, with twelve other members to be elected at a general or special meeting shall be the standing committee of said corporation.

SEC. 5. Such standing committee shall have such powers as shall be lawfully conferred on them by the constitution and by-laws of the corporation, and they and the said officers shall hold their offices for such time and in such manner as such constitution and by-laws shall prescribe.

SEC. 6. Such constitution and by-laws may declare what number of members shall constitute a quorum at meetings of the standing committee, and provide for the manner of admitting and suspending and removing members and officers of the corporation.

SEC. 7. The said corporation shall be subject to and have the rights conferred by the general provisions contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, except that no member of said corporation shall be liable for any debts or liabilities of the same unless on an agreement

in writing to be subscribed by such member and expressly binding him.

SEC. 8. The said corporation, hereby constituted, may take real and personal estate by will, but subject to the general provisions of the act relating to wills, passed April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty, chapter three hundred and sixty.

SEC. 9. The several officers of said association existing at the time of the passage of this act, shall hold their respective offices as officers of this corporation with the powers and duties prescribed by the constitution and by-laws of said association until their successors shall be elected or appointed. Further, all property, rights and interests of said association shall by virtue of this act vest in and become the property of this corporation. SEC. 10. All interest of any member of said corporation in its property shall terminate and vest in the corporation upon his ceasing to be a member thereof by death, resignation, expulsion or otherwise.

SEC. 11. The Legislature may at any time alter, amend, or repeal this act.

SEC. 12. This act shall take effect immediately.

We, the undersigned, members of "THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK," of which Cornelius R. Agnew is President; Robert A. Barry, Vice-President; Frederick A. Burrall, Secretary; George Bayles, Assistant Secretary; and Timothy M. Cheesman, Treasurer, and all other members of said Association and Alumni of said College, who may now be or hereafter become associated with us, do by these presents, pursuant to and in compliance with the Act of the Legislature of the State of New York, passed on the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, entitled "An Act for the Incorporation of Benevolent, Charitable, Scientific and Missionary Societies," and the several acts of the Legislature amendatory thereof, associate ourselves together and form a body politic and corporate, and do hereby certify:

FIRST. That the corporate name of said Association is: "THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK."

SECOND. That the objects for which the said Corporation is formed are: the collection of funds by contribution and subscription, and the holding, investment and application of the same for the establishment and endowment of professorships and fellowships, the creation of prize funds, the establishment and equipment of laboratories, the erection and equipment of suitable buildings for the same, or the alteration and repair of buildings already erected, and for the purpose of buying, holding, and hiring, or leasing property for any and such other

purposes of medical and scientific investigation and instruction, in connection and co-operation with the Trustees of the "COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK," as the said "ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI" of said College, in pursuance of its Constitution and By-Laws, may direct.

THIRD. That the number of Trustees of said Corporation shall be five, whose names are as follows: Gurdon Buck, M.D.; D. Tilden Brown, M.D.; Robert A. Barry, M.D.; Henry C. Eno, M.D.; Thomas E. Satterthwaite, M.D.; and who shall manage the concerns of the Corporation for the first year.

On this 5th day of May, A.D. 1873, before me personally appeared Gurdon Buck, M.D., D. Tilden Brown, M.D., Robert A. Barry, M.D., Henry C. Eno, M.D., and Thomas E. Satterthwaite, M.D., to me known to be the individuals described in the foregoing certificate, and they severally before me signed the said certificate and acknowledged that they signed the certificate for the purpose therein mentioned.

(Endorsed)

WILLIAM J. BELL,
Notary Public,

N. Y. County.

I, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, in the First Judicial District, hereby approve of the within certificate and consent that the same be filed.

May 12th, 1873.

E. L. FANCHER,

J. S. C.

Filed in the office of the Clerk of the County of New York, on the 12th day of May, and in the office of the Secretary of State at Albany, on the 13th day of May, 1873.

We, the undersigned, Frederick Augustus Schermerhorn, John Krom Rees, Pierre de Peyster Ricketts, Frederick Remsen Hutton, John C. Fitz Randolph, and Alfred Joseph Moses desiring to form a society or club pursuant to the provisions of an act passed by the Legislature of the State of N. Y., May 12, 1875, and entitled "An Act for the incorporation of societies or clubs for certain lawful purposes" and of the several acts extending and amending the same, do hereby certify:

That the name or title by which such society shall be known in law is "THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI OF THE SCHOOL OF MINES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE."

That the particular business and object of such society is to promote the professional welfare of its members, and to strengthen the bonds of professional and social fellowship between the Alumni of the School of Mines.

That the number of managers who shall manage the concerns of said society are twelve.

That the names of the managers for the first year are: Frederick Augustus Schermerhorn, John Krom Rees, Pierre de Peyster Ricketts, Frederick Remsen Hutton, John C. Fitz Randolph, Alfred Joseph Moses, John Henry Banks, Willard Parker Butler, Peter Townsend Austen, Nathaniel Low Britton, Alfred Lockwood Beebe, James Furman Kemp.

That a majority of the managers are citizens of the State of New York.