Halifax County, NC – Philodemic Association - Act to Incorporate, 1829

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An Act to incorporate the Philodemic Association, in the county of
Halifax

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, 
and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Robert
Jones, Jesse A. Bynum, Edward B. Freeman, Thomas Osby, Jesse Simmons,
Doctor Reid and others their associates, be, and they are hereby
constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of
the President and Members of the Philodemic Association; and by that
name shall be capable in law to sue and be sued; plead and be impleaded;
acquire estate, real and personal, by donation, purchase, bequest of
otherwise; enact such bye laws and regulations as they may deed
expedient for the promotion of the objects of the incorporation; and
enjoy in every other respect all rights, privileges, and immunities
incident to bodies corporate of the like nature; Provided said corporation
shall not be entitled to hold real property exceeding one thousand dollars;
nor for any other purpose, but that for which said body is incorporated:
Provided further, that the corporate rights and privileges created by
this act shall cease and determine on the first day of January, one 
thousand and eight hundred and forty.


Source:
NC Archives
Public and Private Laws of North Carolina
1829
Chapter CXLIV
Page 86

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