An Act to incorporate the Deinologian Society of Centre College

Approved February 1, 1838

Section 1. That Thomas S. Proctor, Robert Montgomery, John R. Ford, William S. Read, and Jeremiah S. Pierce, and their associates, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Deinologian 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, in all courts and places within this commonwealth; and shall, also, have power to acquire, take and hold, by gift, grant, devise, or purchase, any real or personal estate not exceeding the value of twenty five thousand dollars; and to sell, convey, exchange, or dispose or the same at pleasure, for the use of said Society.

Section 2. That it shall be lawful for the member of the Deinologian Society of Centre College, on the first Monday in March next, and on the same day in every year thereafter, to elect a President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, of said Society, who, upon their election, shall enter upon the duties prescribed by the members of said Society; and the President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, so chosen, and their successors, shall be the corporators, and shall take and hold, for the use of the Society, all the goods, chattels, estate and funds of said society; and in the corporate name, may sue and be sued; and in all suits against the corporation, services of process upon the President, for the time being shall be good against said corporation.

Section 3. That the members of said Society, shall, also, have power and authority to ordain and establish such rules, by-laws, and regulations, for their government, as they may deem proper and necessary, and are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, and the charter, rules and regulations of Centre College. They may, also, appoint such subordinate officers as they may deem proper and necessary for the transaction of the business of said Society, and may remove such subordinate officers at pleasure; but the President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer shall hold their officers for one year, and until their successors are chosen; and in case no election shall be held on the first Monday in March 1838, then the corporators, named in the first section of this act, shall constitute the body politic and corporate, and shall exercise all the privileges, rights and liberties granted by this act, until an election is held by the members of the said Society, and a President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer are chosen, as prescribed in this act.

Section 4. That all books, furniture and apparatus now belonging to said Society, shall be and the same are hereby vested in said Society, as fully and completely as if the same had been acquired after the passage of this act.