Chap. 0067 AN ACT FOR INCORPORATING CERTAIN PERSONS BY THE NAME OF THE SCOTS CHARITABLE SOCIETY.

WJiereas a considerable number of persons have for many years associated themselves in the town of Boston, for the purpose of joining their charities, for the relief of certain ividoivs, orphans, and other objects of charity, and have raised a common stock, but are unable to recover the monies they have lelten on interest, and to transact the business necessary for supporting the said institution:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That John Scollay, William Erving and James Swan, Esquires, Messrs. Thomas Melville, James Thompson, James Graham, William Doll, William Mc,Kean, Andrew Drummond and John Young, with such other persons as they may from time to time hereafter admit, be and they hereby are, incorporated and

made a body politic, by the name of the Scots Charitable Society, and that they, their associates and successors, have perpetual succession, by said name, and have power to make a common seal, and alter the same as they may see fit, and to make by laws for the preservation and advancement of said body (which shall not be repugnant to the laws of this Commonwealth) with penalties, either of disfranchisement from said Society, or of fines not e x c e e d i n g fo rty skill in gs.

And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Scots Charitable Society may sue or be sued in their said corporate capacity, and are hereby licenced and empowered to make purchases, and receive donations of real and personal estates, for the purposes af -resaid, provided the said estates shall not be productive of an annual income exceeding the sum of Two hundred pounds per annum, and to manage and dispose of such estates in manner as to them shall appear most fit.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Society be, and they hereby are, authorized and empowered to meet at such times and places as they shall see fit (the time and place of holding the first meeting to be determined by the said John Scollay, William Erving and James Swan, Esq'rs. or any two of them, and notified in one of the Boston newspapers, fourteen days before such meeting) and from time to time to choose such officers, as to them shall seem most suitable. And all instruments to be made for, or in behalf of said Society, shall be executed under the common seal of said Society, and by such persons as the said Society shall appoint.

Provided ahvays, and it is further enacted, That the members of said Society, shall at no time exceed the number of one hundred.

And be it further enacted, That the Society aforesaid, be, and they hereby are, authorized and empowered to receive to their use, all monies due to the Society, heretofore called the Scots Society in Boston, before the passing of this act, and to give receipts for monies they shall receive, to any person or persons who have heretofore given their obligations to the said Scots Society, which are now in the hands of absentees, which receipts may be given in evidence in any action that may hereafter be brought on any obligation of the description aforesaid.

March 16, 17S6.