Proviso. State society elect two members five dollars: Provided, That the students who have been examined previous to the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and were entitled to receive diplomas, but who have not received the same, shall not pay therefor more than two dollars. $ 19. And be it further enacted, That the medical society of this may annually state may elect by ballot at their annual meeting, eminent and rehere and spectable physicians and surgeons residing in any part of this state, now, &c. which persons so elected shall be permanent members of the society, and entitled to all the privileges of the same: Provided, That not more than two such members shall be elected in any one year, and that they receive no compensation for their attendance from the funds of the society. modify Legislature $23. And be it further enacted, That it shall be in the power of mymo, the legislature to alter, modify or repeal this act whenever they shall deem it necessary or expedient. or repeal this act. When physi cians, &c. of another County may become members of another county боciety. This act de $ 24. And be it further enacted, That if there should not be a sufficient number of physicians and surgeons in any of the counties of this state to form themselves into a medical society agreably to this act, it shall be lawful for such physicians and surgeons to associate with the physicians and surgeons of an adjoining county for the purposes hereby contemplated. $25. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be and hereclared a pub- by is declared to be a public act. lic act. Certain medi cal societies. Censors to be elected. An act to raise money to build a bridge over Allen's creek in the town of Le Roy, and for other purposes. Passed April 9, 1814. Chap. 110, p. 130. $9. And be it further enacted, That the medical societies which have been organized in the several counties set apart since the passage of the act, entitled "An act to incorporate medical societies," passed 26th March, 1806, shall enjoy the same privileges, and shall possess the same authority as those societies incorporated by virtue of the above recited act. An act to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate medical societies, for the purpose of regulating the practice of physic and surgery in this state." Passed April 20, 1818. Chap. 206, p. 192. $3. And be it further enacted, That the state medical society shall annually elect not more than twelve, nor less than six censors, any three of whom shall be a quorum for the examination of students. $5. And be it further enacted, That in those counties where the anniversary meetings of any county medical society, shall occur on ties may be the same day on which the court of common pleas shall meet, it shall be lawful for such society to alter the time of their anniversary meeting, to such day as a majority of the said society present may think Anniversary meeting of county socie altered in certain cases. Delegates to proper. $6. And be it further enacted, That each of the colleges of merepresent the dicine in this state, may elect a delegate to represent their colleges, medicine. respectively, in the medical society of the state, who shall be entitled colleges of to all the privileges, and subject to the same regulations, as the delegates from the county medical societies. An act further to amend "An act to incorporate medical societies, for the purpose of regulating the practice of physic and surgery in this state." Passed April 13, 1819. Chap. 237, p. 308. $1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for each medical society in this state, to cause to be raised and collected from each practising physician or surgeon, residing in the county or counties where such society is by law established, a sum not exceeding one dollar in any one year; which sum when collected, shall be a part of the fund of said society, to be applied as directed by the seventeenth section of the act, entitled "An act to incorporate medical societies for the purpose of regulating the practice of physic and surgery in this state," passed April 10, 1813. An act relative to the medical societies of the counties of Seneca and Onondaga. Passed March 24, 1820. Chap. 95, p. 79. WHEREAS the medical society of the county of Seneca has inad- Preamble vertently changed the time of holding their anniversary meeting, contrary to the act, entitled "An act to incorporate medical societies, for the purpose of regulating the practice of physic and surgery in this state." And whereas, considerable business has been done by the said society since the altering of the time of holding their said anniversary meeting, whereby great inconvenience and mischiefs are likely to ensue: Therefore, ceedings con $1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, Certain prorepresented in Senate and Assembly, That all the meetings and firmed. proceedings of the said medical society of the county of Seneca, since the changing of the time of holding their anniversary meeting as aforesaid, shall be, and are hereby declared as valid and effectual in law, as if the time of holding their annual meeting had never been altered or changed, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, and the anniversary day of the meeting of said society shall hereafter be the first Tuesday of June annually. $2. And be it further enacted, That the anniversary meeting of Anniversary the Onondaga medical society, shall hereafter be held on the second meetings. Tuesday of June, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. An act to enable the county medical societies in this state to alter the time of holding their annual meetings. Passed April 23, 1823. Chap. 228, p. 281. $1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, repre- Annual meetsented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for ing. &c. any society, incorporated under the act, entitled "An act to incorporate medical societies, for the purpose of regulating the practice of physic and surgery in this state," at any anniversary meeting of such Proviso. Companies for manufac be incorpo a certificate tary's office. society, to change the day of holding their annual meeting to such other day in the year as may be more convenient: Provided, That two-thirds of the members present concur in voting for such change: notice of intention to move the same, having been first given at some previous regular meeting of the society. MANUFACTURING INCORPORATIONS. oses. An act relative to incorporations for manufacturing purposes. $1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, turing certain represented in Senate and Assembly, That at any time within five articles may years hereafter, any five or more persons who shall be desirous to rated by filing form a company for the purpose of manufacturing woollen, cotton or in the secre- linen goods, or for the purpose of making glass, or for the purpose of making from ore, bar-iron, anchors, mill-irons, steel, nail rods, hoopiron and ironmongery, sheet copper, sheet lead, shot, white lead and red lead, may make, sign and acknowledge, before a justice of the supreme court, a judge of the court of common pleas, or a master in chancery, and file in the office of the secretary of this state, a certificate in writing, in which shall be stated the corporate name of the said company and the objects for which the company is formed, the amount of the capital stock of the said company, the number of shares of which the said stock shall consist, the number of trustees and their names who shall manage the concerns of the said company for the first year, and the names of the town and county in which the manufacturing operations of the said company are to be carried on. To be bodies for 20 years from the time of filing the certificate. Their corporate rights. Trustees to elected. Election $ 2. And be it further enacted, That as soon as such certificate shall be filed as aforesaid, the persons who shall have signed and acknowledged the said certificate, and their successors, shall, for the term of twenty years next after the day of filing such certificate, be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, 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, 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 they and their successors may have a common seal, and the same may make, alter and change at their plea sure; and that they and their successors, by their corporate name, shall in law be capable of buying, purchasing, holding and conveying any lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, wares and merchandize whatever, necessary to enable the said company to carry on their manufacturing operations mentioned in such certificate. $3. And be it further enacted, That the stock, property and be annually concerns of such company shall be managed and conducted by trustees, who, except those for the first year, shall be elected at such when to take time and place as shall be directed by the by-laws of the said compaplace and how conduc- ny, and public notice shall be given of the time and place of holding such election not less than ten days previous thereto, in the newspaper printed nearest to the place where the manufacturing operations ted. (1) I R. L. p. 245. vote. of the said company shall or are to be carried on, and the election shall be made by such of the stockholders as shall attend for that purpose, either in person or by proxy, and all elections shall be by ballot, and each stockholder shall be entitled to as many votes as he Each share owns shares of the stock of the said company, and the persons having to have one the greatest number of votes shall be trustees; and whenever any vacancy in vacancy shall happen among the trustees by death, resignation, or the office of removal out of the state, such vacancy shall be filled for the remain- filled. der of the year in such manner as shall be provided by the by-laws of Number of the said company: Provided always, That the number of trustees trustees not shall not exceed nine, and that they shall respectively be stockholders nine. in such company. trustees how to exceed dissolved by elect trustees $4. And be it further enacted, That in case it shall at any time Company not happen that an election of trustees be not made on the day when by neglect to the by-laws of the said company it ought to have been done, the said on the day company for that cause shall not be dissolved, but it shall and may be appointed by lawful on any other day to hold an election for trustees, in such manner as shall be directed by the by-laws of such company. law. not to exceed $5. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of such Capital stock company shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars; and it shall 200,000 dol be lawful for the trustees to call and demand from the stockholders lars, respectively all such sums of money by them subscribed, at such time and in such proportions as they shall deem proper, under pain of for- Shares forfeiting the shares of the said stockholders, and all previous payments non-payment made thereon, if such payments shall not be made within sixty days of calls. after a notice requiring such payment shall have been published in such newspaper as aforesaid. feited for trustees. $6. And be it further enacted, That the trustees of such company Powers of the for the time being shall have power to make and prescribe such bylaws, rules and regulations as they shall deem proper respecting the management and disposition of the stock, property and estate of such company, the duties of the officers, artificers and servants by them to be employed, the election of trustees, and all such matters as appertain to the concerns of the said company, to appoint such and so many officers, clerks and servants for carrying on the business of the said company, and with such wages as to them shall seem reasonable: Provided, That such by-laws be not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state or of the United States. personal es tent stock responsible $7. And be it further enacted, That the stock of such company stock deemed shall be deemed personal estate, and be transferable in such manner late and how as shall be prescribed by the laws of the company: and that for all transferable. debts which shall be due and owing by the company at the time of To what ex its dissolution, the persons then composing such company shall be in-holders are dividually responsible to the extent of their respective shares of stock at the dissoin the said company, and no further; and that it shall not be lawful for company. such company to use their funds, or any part thereof, in any banking Restriction transaction, or in the purchase of any stock of any bank, or in the pur- cation of the chase of any public stock whatever, or for any other purposes than funds. those specified in such instrument as aforesaid. lution of the on the appli $8. And be it further enacted, That the copy of any certificate What to be filed in pursuance of this act, and certified to be a true copy by the evidence of received as ration of a company. the incorpo- secretary of this state, or his deputy, shall, together with this act, be received in all courts and places as legal evidence of the incorporation of such company. Companies employing 50 persons may make bylaws, &c. An act to amend the act, entitled "An act relative to incorporations for manufacturing purposes." Passed February 25, 1815. Chap. 47, p. 44. S1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall and may be lawful for any five or more persons who shall be desirous of forming a company for the purpose of manufacturing clay or earth, into wares or articles for any use whatsoever, to associate together and form such company according to the directions and restrictions mentioned in the act, entitled "An act relative to incorporations for manufacturing purposes," passed March 22d, 1811; and such company when formed, and their successors, shall be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, with all the privileges, capacities and liabilities in the said act mentioned and contained. An act for the preservation of cotton, woollen and linen manufac tories from damage by fire. Passed April 17, 1815. Chap. 202, p. 204. $1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for the president and directors of any company incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing cotton, woollen or linen yarns or cloths, and whose capital actually employed for such purpose shall exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, the number of persons actually employed in and about such manufactory shall not be less than fifty, to make, ordain and prescribe such by-laws and regulations within the limits of any parcel of land purchased by such company for that purpose, not exceeding twenty-five acres, as they may deem proper for the better preservation of property from fire within the limits of such parcel of land; and it shall and may be lawful for such president and directors, or a major part of them, to appoint, under the common seal of the said be appointed. corporation, a sufficient number of men, willing to accept, residing within such limits, and not exceeding the number of twenty to every fire-engine now provided or hereafter to be provided for the use of such establishment, to have the care, management, working and using the said engines, and the other tools and instruments now or hereafter to be provided for the extinguishing of fires, which persons so to be appointed shall be called the firemen of such establishment; and while they respectively hold the said appointment shall be exempted from serving as jurors; and the certificate of the directors, or their authorised agent, under the seal of the said company, shall be evidence of the appointment of such firemen in all cases. Firemen may Certain articles to be $ 2. And be it further enacted, That all articles of machinery, exempt from; materials for manufacturing, or manufactured articles belonging to distress and any such company, shall be free from seizure by execution or distress, for any debts or claims for rents or services, in whose hands soever they may be, except such execution or claim be against such company. sale. |