A  Codified Charter,

33cing a condensation and re-arrangement of the several laws relating to
the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of
New York, showing in a convenient form the present existing laws
by which said Society is governed, and under which its operations
are to be carried on in the future.

Prepared by Counsel, December, 1888.
 

1.    Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented in     Sec. 1 of Chap,

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Senate and Assembly, that John I. Labagh, Jacob Lorillard, Peter Sharpe,   1811, as modified
lohn Slidell, lames Hopson, Phillip Arnold, and their present associates,   Laws of   1872,

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and all persons, being Mechanics or Tradesmen and citizens of the United 285, Laws of
States of America, who hereafter shall be members of the said Society,
shall be and hereby are ordained, constituted and declared to be perpet¬
ually, 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," and that by that name they and their successors, perpetually,
shall and may have succession, and shall be persons in law capable of suing
and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being
answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places
whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and causes
whatsoever; and that they and their successors may have a common seal,
and may change and alter the same at their pleasure ; and also that they
and their successors, by the name of "The General Society of Mechanics
AND Tradesmen of the City of New York," shall be in law capable of pur¬
chasing, holding and conveying any estate, real or personal, for the public
use of said corporation ; and of taking and holding by gift, purchase,
bequest or devise, for its uses and purposes, real and personal estate, to an
amount which shall not at any time exceed in value the sum of fifteen