Alphabetical List of Foreign and Domestic Geographical and other Scientific Bodies with which this Society is in Correspondence and PAPERS READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY AND CONTRIBUTED. England Two Hundred Years Ago, by PROF. PAUL CHAIX. The Roman Wall in Britain, by PROF. HENRY W. HAYNES. Definitions of Geographical Names, by KONRAD GANZENMÜLLER, Ph. D. 211, 566 From Corea to Quelpaert: In the Footprints of Kublai Khan, by COL. CHARTER OF INCORPORATION. GRANTED APRIL 13, 1854. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. George Bancroft, Henry Grinnell, Francis L. Hawks, John C. Zimmerman, Archibald Russell, Joshua Leavitt, William C. H. Waddell, Ridley Watts, S. De Witt Bloodgood, M. Dudley Bean, Hiram Barney, Alexander J. Cotheal, Luther B. Wyman, John Jay, J. Calvin Smith, Henry V. Poor, Cambridge Livingston, Edmund Blunt, Alexander W. Bradford, and their associates, who are now or may become hereafter associated for the purposes of this act, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of "The American Geographical and Statistical Society," for the purpose of collecting and diffusing geographical and statistical information. § 2. For the purposes aforesaid, the said Society shall possess the general powers and privileges, and be subject to the general liabilities, contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same may be applicable, and may not have been modified or repealed; but the real and personal estate which the said Society shall be authorized to take, hold, and convey, over and above its library, and maps, charts, instruments, and collections, shall not at any time exceed an amount the clear yearly income of which shall be ten thousand dollars. §3. The officers of said Society shall be a president, three vicepresidents, a corresponding secretary, a recording secretary, a librarian, and a treasurer and such other officers as may from time to time be provided for by the by-laws of the said Society. §4. The said Society, for fixing the terms of admission of its members, for the government of the same, for changing and altering the officers above named, and for the general regulation and management of its transactions and affairs, shall have power to form a code of by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, or of the United States, which code, when formed and adopted at a regular meeting, shall, until modified or rescinded, be equally binding as this act upon the said Society, its officers, and its members. 5. The Legislature may, at any time, alter or repeal this act. 6. This act to take effect immediately. I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and hereby certify the same to be a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law. [1.. s.] Given under my hand and seal of office, at the city of Albany, this thirteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. A. G. JOHNSON, Deputy Secretary of State. |