ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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adjourned or called meeting, and all officers who are elected an-

nually shall remain in office until their successors are duly elected.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the officers of the society to be

elected annually shall be a president, a vice-president, a record-

Officers

ing secretary, a corresponding secretary, a treasurer, and not less

than eight other managers, all of whom shall be elected from the

female members who shall together be styled the managers.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the superintendence and regu-

lation and management of all the buildings in which the opera-

Managers

tions of the society shall be carried on, and the care and govern-

ment of all inmates therein shall be vested in the managers, and

such agents and other officers as they may from time to time ap-

point, and under by-laws, rules and regulations as said managers

shall from time to time adopt.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the present eleven trustees and

their successors in office, shall continue in office until death,

resignation, removal out of the State, or other vacancy, and the

Trustees..

succession shall be maintained, so that there shall always be

eleven trustees by the appointment by the managers of other

gentlemen from time to time to fill vacancies as they occur, and

five trustees shall be a quorum for the transaction of business.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said trustees shall hold all

the principal sums of money and other property belonging to said

corporation and invest, sell and re-invest the same from time to

time at their discretion; and shall collect and pay over all the in-

come from time to time to the treasurer of the managers, and the

said trustees shall make out annually, in the month of January,

Statement.

a statement of all the principal funds of the corporation, and of

all the income collected therefrom and its disposition; and it shall

be the duty of the treasurer of the managers annually, in. the

month of January, to make out a statement of all money re-

ceived by the managers from all sources and the disposition which

has been made of it; the annual statement of the trustees and

of the treasurer of the managers shall be printed in an annual

report of the society so that all interested in its welfare may have

accurate information of its condition; and the said managers shall

have the right to order to be sold and to be paid over to the treas-

urer or to other persons as they may direct any part of the prin-

cipal funds of the corporation for the purpose of building, re-

pairing or improving, furnishing or sustaining in any way their

buildings or for any other purpose consistent with the charitable

purposes of the corporation, from time to time as the managers

from time to time at their discretion may determine; and all suits

Controlled

shall be controlled by said trustees, and all gifts, legacies and

devises shall be paid to said trustees for the use of said society

and subject to the orders of the managers as aforesaid, and the

trustees shall have the custody of the seal of the corporation; and