Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society for the Year ..., Volume 14

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Page xii - This Act shall take effect immediately. STATE OF NEW YORK, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.
Page ix - Upon filing a certificate, as aforesaid, the persons who shall have signed and acknowledged such certificate, and their associates and successors, shall thereupon, by virtue of this act, be a body politic and corporate, by the name stated in such certificate, and by that name they and their successors shall and may have succession, and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being sued...
Page x - ... and they and their successors may have and use a common seal, and the same may alter and change at pleasure ;. and they and their successors, by their corporate name, shall, in law, be capable of taking, receiving, purchasing and holding real estate, for the purposes of their incorporation, and for no other purpose, to an amount not exceeding the sum of fifty thousand dollars in value...
Page ix - ... society is to be conducted, a certificate in writing, in which shall be stated the name or title by which such society shall be known in law, the particular business and objects of such society, the number of trustees, directors or managers to manage the same, and the names of the trustees, directors or managers of...
Page x - ... the first, second and third class, of which the first class shall remain in office one year, the second class two years, and the third class three years; and at each annual election conducted in the manner hereinbefore designated, directors shall be elected for the term of three years to fill the vacancies created by the retiring class.
Page xiii - Its object shall be to improve the condition of agriculture, the rural household and mechanic arts. Section 1. The society shall consist of such citizens of the state as shall signify in writing their wish to become members and shall pay, on subscribing, not less than one dollar and annually thereafter one dollar; and also of honorary and corresponding members. The presidents of...
Page ix - ... of deeds in this state, and file in the office of the secretary of state, and also in the office of the clerk of the county in which the...
Page 746 - Dr. Fitch errs as to the length of' its duration; and I have also erred in the same direction, unless, indeed, there is a still greater range than my subsequent observations would...
Page 227 - A friend of mine has lately adopted a plan, which under the same circumstances I should strongly recommend ; it is that of giving a small quantity of oil-cake to animals grazing, for the sake of improving an ordinary pasture, and its effects are astonishing. The pastures I allude to are small, and one or two bullocks more than they are calculated to carry are put into each ; the lot are then allowed...
Page 80 - To take measures for the improvement of the education of those who depend upon the cultivation of the soil for their support.

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