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Excerpt from Charter, by-Laws, Rules of Directors and House, With Names of Officers Since Organization: Organized December 27, 1862, Incorporated March 30, 1864 Whitney, John B. Kenney, John A. Brown, Stephen Colwell, Charles Gilpin, J. Gillingham Fell, N. B. Browne, Samuel C. Perkins, Benjamin H. Brewster, Lindley Smyth, Daniel Dougherty, George Trott, Will iam Sellers, and such other persons as have been or may hereafter be associated with them, for the purposes of said association, are hereby erected into, and declared to be, a body politic and corporate, by the name, Style and title of the Union League of Philadelphia, and by the same style and title Shall have perpetual succession; and may purchase, take and hold, by gift, grant, demise, bar gain and sale, devise and bequest, or by any other lawful mode of conveyance, any lands, tenements, goods, chat tels and estate, real, personal or mixed, and the same, or any part thereof, from time to time, may sell, alien, mort gage Or otherwise dispose of and may have a common seal, which they may alter and renew at their pleasure Provided, that the clear yearly value or income Of all the estate and property Of the said corporation, including interest on all moneys by them lent, Shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, exclusive of the real estate in the actual occupancy of the corporation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.