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Sec. 3. In addition to the powers enumerated in
the first section of this title and to those expressly
given in its charter, or in the act under which it is or
shall be incorporated, no corporation shall possess or
exercise any corporate powers except such as shall be
necessary to the exercise of the powers enumerated
and given.

Sec. 6. When the corporate powers of any corporation
are directed by its charter to be exercised by any
particular body or number of persons, a majority of
such number of persons, if it be not otherwise provided
in the charter, shall be a significant number to
form a board for the transaction of business; and every
decision of a majority of the persons assembled as a
board shall be valid as a corporate act

[[footnote]]* This act extended to societies for promoting fine arts, etc. Lodge of 1860,ch. 242, Historical and literary societies, Laws of 21862, ch. 302.[[/footnote]]

Incorporation of Sorosis.

Be it known by these Presents, that we, Agnes Noble,
Jennie C. Croly, Charlotte B. Wilbour, Celia M. Burleigh,
E. Louise Demorest, Ella M. Clymer, Sara L.
Hopper and Josephine Pollard, Citizens of the United
States of America, and the state of New York, desire
to form an association under and in pursuance of
an Act of the Legislature of the State of New York, entitled
"An Act for the Incorporation of Benevolent, Charitable,
Scientific and Missionary Societies, passed April
12, A.D. 1848," and of the several acts amendatory
thereof, and do hereby make, sign, and respectively
acknowledge this certificate in writing, for the purpose
of forming, organizing, and incorporating such Association,
and do hereby certify and declare:

1st. The corporate name of such Association or Society,
shall be "SOROSIS," Which being interpreted,
signifies, "An aggregation," " A growth to culmination,"
and the mark or badge of membership claimed
and appropriated by the Society, is a golden Roman
capital letter "S," transversed with a scroll, upon
which is enamelled in Greek letters, "SOREUSIS."

2nd. The particular or specific objects for which the said Society shall be and is formed, and incorporated, shall be and are hereby declared to be the promotion of agreeable and useful relations among women of literary, artistic, and scientific tastes; the discussion and dissemination of principles and facts which promise to exert a salutary influence on women and on society,