Charter of the Society,

AND  ITS

SEVERAL AMENDMENTS.
 

Chapter i 13, Laws of 181 i.

!Hn !Kct Relative to the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
of the City of New York.    Passed the 3d of April,  1811.

Whereas, the Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New
York, by their memorial presented to this Legislature, have set forth and
represented that the act passed the 14th of March, 1792, by which said
Society was constituted a body corporate and politic, will, on the first Mon¬
day of April, which will be in the year of our Lord 1812, expire and cease
by its own limitation; And whereas, said Society, by their memorial, have
prayed for a renewal and extension of the term of their incorporation, and
likewise to have the charter so amended as to enable them to conduct their
affairs with prudence, safety and propriety: Therefore,

I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented
in Senate and Assembly, That John I. Labagh, Jacob Lorillard, Peter
Sharpe, John Slidell, James Hopson, Philip Arnold, and their present
associates, and all persons being Mechanics or Tradesmen, and resident
within the City and County of New York, who hereafter shall be members
of the said Society, shall be, and hereby are ordained, constituted, and
declared to be one body, corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the
name of "The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the
City of New York," until the first Monday in April, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-three ; and that by that name they and their successors,
for the term aforesaid, shall and may have succession, and shall be persons
m law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded.