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An Act for the Incorporation of Benevolent, Charitable, Scientific and Missionary Societies.
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Passed April 12, 1848, as amended.
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SECTION 1.—Any five or more persons of full age, citizens of the United States, a majority of whom shall be citizens of and residents within this State, who shall desire to associate themselves together for benevolent, charitable, missionary or mission or other Sabbath-school purposes, may make, sign and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds in this State, and file in the office of the Secretary of State, and also in the office of the clerk of the county in which the business of such society is to be conducted, certificates in writing in which shall be stated the name of title by which society shall be known in law, the particular business and objects of such society, the number of trustees, directors or managers to manage the same, and the names of the trustees, directors or managers of such society for the first year of its existence ; but such certificate shall not be filed unless by the written consent and approbation of one of the justices of the supreme court of the district in which the place of business or principal office of such society shall be located, to be endorsed on such certificate.  (As amended 1861, chapter 239, section 1, so as to include literary and scientific.*)

SEC. 2.—Upon filing a certificate as aforesaid, the persons who shall have signed and acknowledged such certificate, and their associated and successors, shall 

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