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CATALOGUE

OF THE LIBRARY OF

THE PROVIDENCE ATHENEUM,

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

THE CHARTER, CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

AND AN

HISTORICAL SKETCH

OF THE INSTITUTION.

PROVIDENCE:

KNOWLES, ANTHONY & CO., PRINTERS.
1853.

WIMMEROLY

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Elected, February, 1853, vice John J. Stimson, resigned.

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CHARTER.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE

THE ATHENÆUM, IN PROVIDENCE.

PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION, A. D., 1836.

*

Be it enacted by the General Assembly, and by the authority thereof it is enacted, That Moses Brown, Nicholas Brown, Thomas Burgess, &c., together with each person who shall hereafter become a stockholder or proprietor in the same, their successors and assigns, be, and they hereby are constituted and made a body corporate and politic, in the city of Providence, by the name and style of THE ATHENEUM, with perpetual succession; and by that name shall have power to have and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew at pleasure; to prosecute and defend all suits in law or in equity; to have, hold, use and dispose of at their pleasure, goods, chattels, lands and tenements, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of books, papers, furniture, and collections in science and the arts; to make by-laws for the management of their concerns, and for the regulation of their library, and affix penalties to the breach thereof: Provided such by-laws be not repugnant to law; to elect all necessary officers, and prescribe the tenure of their offices and their duties; to hold meetings as often as occasion may require, ten to be a quorum, until other provisions be made on the subject by said corporation; to impose taxes on the owners of shares in said corporation; and generally to have all the privileges and powers incident to corporations instituted for library and scientific purposes.

*A large list of names is omitted for the sake of brevity.

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