Statement of the Objects & Organization of the American Geographical and Statistical Society: With a Copy of Its Charter, By-laws, &c., &cBaker & Godwin, printers, 1857 - 15 pages |
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59 Nassau St 63 Wall St Academy of Science Alexander Alexander W American Geographical Annual Dues ARCHIBALD RUSSELL Beakley Beekman St Benjamin Bleecker St Bond St Broad St Broadway Brooklyn Burling Slip By-Laws CALVIN SMITH Chairman Charles Clinton Place Council DINSMORE East Seventeenth St East Twelfth St East Twenty-First St East Twenty-Sixth St Edward Ex-officio Members Fifth Avenue Fourth Avenue Fourth St Francis Francis L Frederick G Front St Geographical and Statistical George Gramercy Park Grinnell Henry HENRY GRINNELL Hiram James LEFFERTS Librarian Library and Finance Mark's Place Ninth St officers President PROF Recording Secretary Resident Member Richard Ridley Watts Robert Samuel Second Avenue Smith Society of Sciences Statistical Society Tenth St Thomas Topics and Proceedings University Place Vice-Presidents VIELE vote Wall St Washington Place West Fourteenth St West Nineteenth St West Sixteenth St West Thirty-First St West Twentieth St West Twenty-Second St West Twenty-third St William E
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Page 5 - ... affairs, shall have power to form a code of by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, or of the United States, which code, when formed and adopted at a regular meeting, shall, until modified or rescinded, be equally binding as this act upon the said Society, its officers, and its members.
Page 5 - 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 8 - The President, or, in his absence, one of the VicePresidents, or, in their absence, a Chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all meetings of the Society, and shall have a casting vote. He shall preserve order, and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Society.
Page 4 - Society," for the purpose of collecting and diffusing geographical and statistical information. § 2. For the purposes aforesaid, the said Society shall possess the general powers and privileges, and be subject to the general liabilities, contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same may be applicable, and may not have been modified or repealed; but the real and personal estate...
Page 9 - Managers, and shall attend the same. He shall keep fair and accurate records of all the proceedings and orders of the Society, and of the...
Page 5 - Given under my hand and the seal of office of the Secretary of State, at the city of Albany, this third day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.
Page 8 - The President, or (in his absence) one of the Vice-Presidents, or (in the absence of all of them) one of the members shall preside at all meetings of the Association. The President shall be ex officio a member of the Executive Committee.
Page 4 - Bloodgood, M. Dudley Bean, Hiram Barney, Alexander J. Cotheal, Luther B. Wyman, John Jay, J. Calvin Smith, Henry V. Poor, Cambridge Livingston, Edmund Blunt, Alexander W. Bradford, and their associates, who are now or may become hereafter associated for the purposes of this act, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of "The American Geographical and Statistical Society," for the purpose of collecting and diffusing geographical and statistical information.
Page 4 - Secretary and a Treasurer, and such other officers as may from time to time be deemed necessary...
Page 10 - ... meeting thereafter, when such cases shall be subject to review by the Society. 6. It shall not, without an approving vote of the Society, at a stated meeting thereof, make any contract whereby a liability in amount above one thousand dollars may be incurred by the Society; nor without such vote make any sale or disposition of the property of the Society exceeding that sum in value. 7. The Council may, in its discretion, remit the initiation fee or annual dues of any member of the Society. 8....