Page 10 - La Société canadienne d'histoire de l'Église catholique - Rapport 1961

10 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
stitution or by-laws may prescribe: Provided, such Constitu-
tion, by-laws, rules and regulations be not inconsistent mith this
act, or the laws or Constitution of this State, or of the United
States.
SEC. 4. Said Society may receive, hold, purchase and enjoy
books, papers and other articles forming its library and collec-
tions to any extent, and may acquire and hold, and at pleasure
alienate, any other personal and real estate, and may acquire
the some by devise, or bequest, or otherwise, not exceeding ten
thousand dollars in value, but all its funds shall ever be faith-
fully appropriated to promote the objects of, this formation.
SEC. 5. The incorporatore, or a mqjority of them, with their
associates shaI1 meet upon the notice of the present Recording
Secretary of the Society, within thirty days after the passage of
this act, and upon accepting the same may, if they or rt majority
of them deem proper, re-organize their present assoeintion in
accordance with the provisions of this charter.
Approved March 4,1853.