Excerpt from The Charter and by-Laws of the New York Historical Society: Revised January, 1858; With a List of Members Resolved, That the by-laws adopted by the Society, January 5th, 1858, be referred to the Executive Committee, with instructions to have prepared and printed, in pamphlet form, the original Act of Incorporation of the Society, the Act of 1826 reviving that Act, the Act of 1846, reviving and amending the original Act of Incorporation, the existing Act of Incorporation as re vived and amended, the Act of 1856, to exempt the Library edifice and site from sale under execution, the by-laws, and a list of officers and members of the Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.