Approved, February 13, 1837

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, that John Green, James S. Hopkins, John Barclay, John G. Miller, and Joshua F. Bell, and their associates be, and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Chamberlain Philosophical and Literary Society of Centre College, and by that name and style may have and use a common seal, with power to alter and change the same at pleasure, and may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, before any court of judicature within this Commonwealth, and shall also have power to take and hold by gift, grant or devise, and estate whatever, real and personal, not exceeding the value of twenty thousand dollars, and to sell, exchange, or convey the same at pleasure, for the use of said society.

Section 2. That the members of the Chamberlain Philosophical and Literary Society of Centre College, may elect, on the first Monday in March next, and on the same day in every year hereafter, a President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer of said Society, who, upon their election, shall enter upon the discharge of such duties as shall be prescribed by the members of said society. The President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, for the time being, and their successors, shall take and hold the estate, goods and funds of the society, and in law, shall be considered the corporators, and in the corporate name may sue and be sued, and in all suits against the corporation, service of process upon said President, shall be considered good. That the members of said society shall also have power and authority to ordain and establish such by-laws, rules and regulations for the government, as they may deem proper and necessary, which are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the Commonwealth, and the charter, rules and regulations of Centre College. They may also appoint such other subordinate officers as they may deem proper, for the government of said society; and they may remove them at pleasure; but the President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors are chosen; and in case no election shall be held on the first Monday in March, eighteen hundred and thirty seven, then the officers of said society, now in office, shall continue until the first Monday in March, eighteen hundred and thirty eight, unless a vacancy should occur, and in that event, an election may be held at any time. That all the books, furniture and apparatus now belonging to said society, shall be vested in and held by said society, as fully and completely, as if the same had been acquired after the passage of this act.