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tion of the same shall be brought within one year after the debt shall become due and payable. (As amended 1853, chap. 487, sec. 1.)

SEC. 8.- All institutions formed under this act, to-gether with their books and vouchers, shall be subject to the visitation and inspection of the justices of the supreme court, or by any person or persons who shall be appointed by the supreme court for that purpose ; and it shall be the duty of the trustees, or a majority of them, in the month of December, in each year, to make and file in the county clerk's office where the original certificate is filed, a certificate under their hands, stating the names of the trustees and officers of such association or corporation, with an inventory of the property, effects and liabilities thereof, with an affidavit of the truth of such certificate and inventory, and also an affidavit that such association or corporation has not been engaged, directly or indirectly, in any other business than such as is set forth in the original certificate on file.

SEC. 9.- Every corporation formed under this act shall possess the power and be subject to the provis-ions and restrictions contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes. (1 R S., p. 599, as amended 1849, sec. 1.)

SEC. 10.- The Legislature may at any time amend, annul or repeal any corporation formed or created under this act ; as,

SEC. 11.- The trustees, directors or stockholders of any existing benevolent, charitable, scientific or mis-sionary corporation may, by conforming to the require-ments of the first section of this act, re-incorporate themselves or continue their existing corporate powers for the period limited by this act, and all the property and effects of such existing corporation shall vest in and belong to the corporation so re-incorporated or continued. (As amended 1849, sec. 2.)

SEC. 12.- It shall be lawful for the supreme court of this State, upon the application of three-fourths of the trustees of any benevolent, charitable, scientific, mis-sionary society or orphan asylum incorporated by law, in case it shall deem it proper, to make an order for the leasing and sale or conveyance of any real estate be-longing to such corporation, and to direct the applica-tion of the moneys arising therefrom by the said cor-poration to such uses as to the said court shall seem to be most for the interest of the corporation to which the real estate so leased or conveyed belongs. (Laws of 1861, chap. 58, sec. 1.)

SEC. 13.- It shall be lawful for the supreme court of this State, upon the application of any benevolent, charitable, scientific or missionary society, in case it shall deem it proper, to make an order for the mort-gaging of any real estate belonging to the said corpora-tion, and to direct the application of the moneys arising thereform by the said corporation to such uses as the same corporation, with the consent and approbation of the said court, shall conceive to be the most for the interest of the society to which the real estate so mortgaged be-longs. (Laws of 1854, chap. 50, sec. 1.)

SEC. 14.-(Sec. 2 of chap. 242, 1860.) Any fine art association, formed under the first section of this act, may be capable of taking by devise, bequest or pur-chase, and of holding for the purpose of their incorpo-ration and for no other purpose, real or personal prop-erty exceeding in value the amount limited by such act ; provided a justice of the supreme court of the district in which the principal office of such association shall be located, shall, from time to time, allow the same by an order to be entered on the records of the court, which shall also specify the limit fixed by said justice.