An Act to incorporate a society in the District of Columbia by the name of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science

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Summary

The National Institute for the Promotion of Science is incorporated. The members of the Institute are: Peter Force, Francis Markoe, jr., Garrett R. Barry, William J. Stone, Daniel Webster, Walter Forward, John C. Spencer, Abel P. Upshur, Charles A. Wickliffe, Hugh S. Legard, John Q. Adams, William C. Preston, John J. Abert, John G. Totten, Aaron O. Dayton, and Lewis Warrington. Provisions are established concerning the obligations and liability of the Institute. Guidelines are established regarding the Institute's Constitution, by-laws, and charter.

Subject

  • Adams, John Quincy 1767-1848
  • Albert, John J
  • Barry, Garrett R
  • Dayton, Aaron O., d. 1858
  • Force, Peter 1790-1868
  • Forward, Walter, 1783-1852
  • Legare, Hugh S. 1797-1843
  • Markoe, Francis 1801-1871
  • Preston, William C. 1794-1860
  • Totten, John
  • Spencer, John C (John Canfield) 1788-1855
  • Stone, William James 1798-1865
  • Upshur, Abel P., 1790-1844
  • Warrington, Lewis, 1782-1851
  • Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
  • Wickliffe, Charles A., 1788-1869
  • National Institute for the Promotion of Science

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

  • 6 Stat. 845
  • Title 20, Education
  • Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

06 Stat. 845 (1842); ch. 105 (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

  • 1846
  • 07/27/1842

Topic

  • Articles of incorporation
  • Science
  • Societies
  • Science--Societies, etc

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 2; Page Numbers: 845-46

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