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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
Earle, Nicholas Valliant, Ennalls Martin, Lambert Reardon,
Thomas P. Smith, Samuel Groome, Robert Spencer, John Meredith,
George Smith, William Clark, David Nice, William Barlow, James
Wainwright, James Wilson, junior, John M.G. Emory, James Neal,
Robert Moore, William Moore, John L. Kerr, Peter Denny, William
K. Austin, Joseph Haskins and Thomas P. Bennett, be and
they are hereby incorporated into a society, the chief object of
which shall be to raise a constant fund by donation from the charitable,
and from annual subscriptions, for the purpose of relieving
such of the citizens of the town of Easton as may, by sickness, or
other unavoidable circumstances, be reduced to indigence and distress,
and for other laudable purposes. |
DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 143. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforenamed
persons, and
others that may hereafter become subscribers and contributors to
the said society, and may be admitted into the same agreeably to
such rules and by-laws as the said society, and their successors,
shall hereafter establish and ordain, are hereby declared to be one
community, corporation and body politic, for ever, by the name of
The Charitable Society of Easton, and by the same name they,
and their successors, shall and may have perpetual succession, and
shall and may at all times be persons able and capable in
law to purchase, take, have and enjoy, to them and their successors,
in fee, or less estate or estates, any lands, tenements, rents,
annuities, chattels, bank stock, registered debt or debts, public securities
in this state, by the gift, bargain, sale or devise, of any
person or persons, bodies politic or corporation, capable to make
the same, and the same at their pleasure to alien, sell, transfer or
lease, in such manner as they may judge most conducive to the
benevolent and charitable uses of said society; Provided nevertheless,
that the said corporation or body politic shall not at any time hold
or possess real, personal, or mixed property, exceeding in total
value the sum of twenty thousand dollars. |
Declared one community,
corporation
and body politic
—Privileges. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the members of
said corporation,
and their successors, may meet together on the first Monday of
May and November session eighteen hundred and fourteen, and semi annually
thereafter, or as soon after as may be, and then and there
elect the officers of said society, and form such rules, by-laws and
regulations, as may be necessary for assuring and carrying into effect
the benevolent purposes of this act; provided such rules and regulations
shall not contravene or be repugnant to the constitution
and laws of this state, or of the United States. |
Election of officers
—Rules, &c. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corporation,
and their
successors, by the name aforesaid, shall be for ever thereafter able
and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all or
any court of justice, and before all or any judges, officers or persons
whatsoever, in all and singular actions, matters or demands
whatsoever; and that it shall and may be lawful for them, and
their successors, for ever thereafter, to have and keep a common
seal for their use, and the same at their will, and pleasure of them,
and their successors, to change, alter, break and make anew,
from time to time, as they shall think best; and shall in general
have and exercise all such rights, franchises, privileges and immunities,
as by law are incident and necessary to corporations of |
Rights, privileges
and franchises. |
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