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1839-42-1
SECTION 1. That John Cooper, Edward Cox, James Sampson,
Samuel Bolton and Thomas Mumford and their associates and their
successors in office are hereby constituted and appointed a body
corporate and politic, and shall be known by the name of "The New
Harmony workingmen's institute," and by that name shall have the
power to sue and be sued, to adopt the constitution now existing and
the same to alter and amend and to make and use a common seal, as
given to corporations by the common law, to borrow money and secure
the payment of the same by notes and mortgages, bonds or deeds of
trust upon real and personal estate of such association; to purchase,
rent, lease, hold, sell and convey real estate for the advancement of the
objects of the association as hereinafter set out; to erect, buy, rent, lease
and maintain suitable buildings for such purposes and for other objects
properly connected therewith, to receive and accept donations of
money, lands, goods, chattels and the like, either by gift or devise, and
to hold, use, enjoy, mortgage, sell and convey the same for the benefit
of such corporation, in the manner provided in the deed of the gift or
in the devise by which the same is received. And said association shall
have the power to make by-laws and to do and perform all other acts
necessary to carry into effect the objects named herein.
1839-42-2
SECTION 2. That the objects to be promoted by "The New Harmony
workingmen's institute" shall be the mutual instruction of its members
and the promotion of useful knowledge by the aid of books, lectures
and apparatus; the establishment of a library, art gallery, park,
gymnasium, baths, auditorium, museum, industrial and art schools and
like institutions for the use of the people of the town of New Harmony,
Posey county, Indiana, and such inhabitants of said county as the
by-laws may from time to time provide.