C5559. Chapter VIII. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE AND ESTABLISH A SOCIETY BY THE NAME OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS .
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C5559. Chapter VIII. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE AND ESTABLISH A SOCIETY BY THE NAME OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS .
C5559. Chapter VIII. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE AND ESTABLISH A SOCIETY BY THE NAME OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS . [Contained within] ACTS AND LAWS PASSED BY THE GENERAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS: Begun and held at Boston, in the County of Suffolk, on Wedbesday the twenty-sixth Day of May, Anno Domini, 1790; and from thence continued by Adjournment to Wednesday the Twenty-eighth Day of January following. Passed February 17,1791 . Printed by Thomas Adams. 1p. Landmark initial Act establishing the Massachusetts Humane Society, upon which all succeeding organized life-saving efforts in the United States were based. Act provides for establishment and incorporation., affixes powers and duties and provides for the establishment of regualtions within the Society and the appointment of officers. Also establishes that the first meeting of the Society shall be held in Boston . RARE. IMPORTANT WORK. (Photocopy $1).