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and the establishment of an order which shall render the female sex helpful to each other, and actively benevolent in the world.

3d. The Executive Committee, consisting of five members, together with the President, Recording and Corresponding Secretaries, who are ex-officio members of said Executive Committee, shall manage the affairs of said Society, and act as the Trustees of the Corporation thereof. The number of the Trustees of the Corporation shall be eight, and the names of the first Trustees who shall manage the affairs of said Society for the first year, are Agnes Noble, Jennie C. Croly, Charlotte B. Wilbour, Celia L. Burleigh, E. Louise Demorest, Ella M. Clymer, Sara L. Hopper, and Josephine Pollard, all of the State of New York.

4th. The principal office or place of managing the affairs of said Society shall be located in the City, County and State of New York, and said City of New York, in the First Judicial District of the State of New York, is hereby declared to be the place where the principal office for managing the affairs of said Society shall be situated. 

It witness whereof, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands, this 30th day of December, A.D. 1868.

Signed,
AGNES NOBLE,           JENNIE C. CROLY,
CHARLOTTE B. WILBOUR,  CELIA M. BURLEIGH,
E. LOUISE DEMOREST,    ELLA M. CLYMER,
SARA L. HOPPER,        JOSEPHINE POLLARD.

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State of New York,
City and County of New York.}SS.

Be it known, that on the 30th day of December, A.D. 1868, before me personally appeared Agnes Noble, Jennie C. Croly, Charlotte B. Wilbour, Celia M. Burleigh, E. Louise Demorest, Ella M. Clymer, Sara L. Hopper, and Josephine Pollard, each of whom are known to me to be the same persons described in and who made and signed the foregoing certificate of incorporation, and severally acknowledged that they executed the same for the purposes therein mentioned. Signed, E.P. BROOK,
[SEAL.] Commissioner of Deeds.

State of New York,
City and County of New York.}SS.

I, George G. Bernard, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, residing in the First Judicial District in which the business of the Society called "Sorosis," and mentioned in the foregoing certificate, is to be transacted, do hereby approve of the said certificate, and direct that the same be filled pursuant to the statute in such cases made and provided.
Signed, George G. Barnard.
Dated New York, December 31, 1868.

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