Chap. 0122 An Act to incorporate the Agricultural Society of Maine.

Sec. i. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, - and by the authority of the same, That Jesse Appleton, Isaac Adams, John Abbot, William Abbot, Phinehas Ashman, William H. Bordman, James Bridge,'Thomas Bond, Benjamin Brown, E. Brown, John Blake, J. Black, J. Bennock, G. 13ixby, B. Bryant, N. Black-well, Supply Belcher, John Burn ham, Oliver Bray, Daniel Cony, John Chandler, David Cobb, R. Cobb, Thomas Cobb, Nathan Cutler, Parker McCobb, William Crosby, Francis Carr, Philip Coombs, Eleazer Coburn, Henry Dearborn, John Davis, Pitt Dillingham,

S. E. Dutton, R. Dodge, S. Dore, I. Dane, Williams Emmons, Nicholas Emery, Thomas Eldred, H. W. Fuller, A. Fletcher, B. P. Field, William Gray, R. jh. Gardiner, Benjamin Green, A. Gilman, Ezekiel Goodale, M. Greenleaf, I. Godfrey, junior, Z. Gilman, M. L. Hill, I. Hook, junior, A. Howard, G. Herbert, C. B. Hall, Jedediah Herrick, W. A. Hayes, D. Harding, junior, N. Hanson, Richard Harnden, Isaac Ilsley, L. Jarvis, Caleb Jewett, A. Jones, D. Johnson, William King, Martin Kinsley, James Lloyd, Stephen Longfellow, S. Longfellowr, junior, Samuel Longfellow, Joseph Lamson, Lothrop Lewis, I. Loring, Cyrus Libby, Richard Lord, John Low, T. Leavitt, Thomas Leigh, Prentiss Mellen, A. Mann, John Merrick, B. McLellan, Jacob MeGaw, I. Moulton, William Moody, John May, I. Nelson, I. G. Neil, Joseph North, William Prescott, J. Parker, S. M. Pond, J. Peirce, Nathaniel Peirce, O. Peirce, Chandler Rob-bins, John Richards, Jesse Robinson, Samuel Red-ington, William Sullivan, David Sears, Calvin Selden, Richard Sawtell, James Starr, junior, Thomas W. Smith, Daniel Sewall, J. W. Seaver, T. Sibley, Benjamin Shaw, William Sylvester, S. Stephenson, Israel Thorndike, Israel Thorndike, junior, Samuel Thatcher, S. Thayer, Jonathan Tucker, Benjamin Vaughan, Charles Vaughan, William O. Vaughan, Samuel S. Wilde, Thomas L. Winthrop, Joshua Wingate, Joshua Wingate, junior, John Ware, Nathan Weston, junior, e. T. Warren, Peleg Wadsworth, Reuel Williams, Lemuel Williams, George W. Wallingford, D. Wood, James L. Wood, Abiel Wood, S. A. Whitney, John Wilson, George Watson, P. H. Washburn, James Waugh, WilliamD. Williamson,S.Williamson, James Bowen, Benjamin Butman, John Brewer, John Bal-kam, James Bailey, Moses Carlton, Nathaniel Coffin, William Chamberlain, John Cooper, James Campbell, John Dole, Erastus Foote, Ebenezer Farley, Benjamin Hasey, James W. Head, Joshua Head, Josiah Harris, Stephen Jones, Ebenezer Inglee, Theodore Lincoln, James Malcom, Benjamin Orr, William H. Page, Benjamin Higgs, James Rogers, Thomas Ruggles, Dummer Sewall, Josiah Stebbins, Peleg Tallman, Ebenezer Thacher, Jacob Townsley, David Wash,

and Ephraim Whitney, together with such others, as shall become members thereof, be, and they are hereby incorporated into, and made a body politic and corporate forever, by the name of " The Agricultural Society of Maine," for the purpose of promoting useful improvements in agriculture and manufactures.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation be, and they are hereby declared capable in law, of purchasing, taking, and holding in fee simple, or any less estate, by gift, grant, devise, or otherwise, any lands, tenements, or other estate, real and personal ; provided the annual income of the said real and personal estate shall not exceed the sum of thirty thousand dollars; and also to sell, alien, devise or dispose of the same estate, real and personal, not using the same in trade or commerce.

Sec 3. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have full power and authority to have and use a common seal, and the same to break, renew and alter, at pleasure ; that it shall be capable in law to sue aud be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, iu all courts of record, in all actions, real, personal and mixed ; and to do and execute all and singular such other matters and things that to them shall and may appertain to do.

Sec 4. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation may make, establish and* put in execution, such laws and regulations, as may be necessary to the government of said corporation ; provided the same shall in no case be repugnant to the laws and constitution of this Commonwealth ; and for the well governing of said corporation, they shall have such officers as they shall, hereafter* from time to time, elect and appoint ; and such officers as shall be designated by the laws and regulations of said corporation, for the purpose, shall be capable of exercising such power for the well governing and ordering the affairs of the said corporation, aud calling and holding such occasional meetings for the purpose, as shall be fixed and determined by the said laws and regulations. #

Sec 5. Be it further enacted. That the place of holding the first meeting of said society, shall be iu the: town of Hallowell, and that the Honorable Samuel S.

Wilde be, and he hereby is authorized to fix the time for holding said meeting, and to notify the same to the members of the said society, by causing the same to be published in such newspapers as he may think expedient, thirty days before the time appointed for holding said meeting.

[Approved by the Governor, February 16,1818.]