Annual report : 1929 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York.
- Society for the Lying-In Hospital
- Date:
- 1929
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report : 1929 / Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Charter of the Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York An ACT to incorporate the Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York, passed March 1, 1799, chapter xxiii. Laws of 1799. Whereas, Thomas Pearsall, John Christopher Kunze, Robert Lenox, Cornelius Ray, Archibald Gracie, John Stark Robertson, Henry Remsen, William Houstoun, Andrew Hamersly, John Charl¬ ton, David M. Clarkson, William Jauncey, J. C. Vanden Heuvel and others, influenced by principles of benevolence and charity, associated as an institution, under the style of The Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York, for the useful purpose of establishing an asylum for the reception of women in a state of pregnancy who are unable to procure the necessary medical assistance and nursing during the period of their confinement in child-bed, by their petition presented to the Legislature, have prayed to be incorporated, the better to enable them to carry into effect the salutary object of their institution; therefore Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly. That all such persons as now are, or hereafter shall be members of the said institution, shall be and hereby are ordained, con¬ stituted and declared, forever a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the name of “The Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and causes whatsoever; and that they and their successors may have a com¬ mon seal, and may change and alter the same at their pleasure; and also that they and their successors, by the name of “The Society of the Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York,” shall be in law capable of purchasing, receiving, holding and conveying any estate, real or per¬ sonal, for the use of the said corporation. Provided that the lands, tenements and hereditaments which it shall be lawful for said corpora¬ tion to hold shall be only such as shall be requisite for the purpose of erecting a public building and such houses or other buildings as may be suitable and necessary to the nature of the said institution, or such as [52]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31710943_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
