...and in conformity with the act of the Legislature of the State of New York, passed February 17, AD 1848, entitled "An act to authorize the formation...manufacturing, mining, mechanical, or chemical purposes", and the several acta of the legislature amendatory thereof, associate ourselves together and form a...

...under and pursuant to the provisions of an act of the Legislature, passed on the 17th day of February, 1848,* entitled "An act to authorize the formation...manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes," and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. The evidence satisfactorily shows that the defendant...

...purpose is not revealed. A special act has the merit of speaking for itself. Chapter 40 of the Laws of 1848, entitled "An act to authorize the formation...manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes," illustrates in its history many of the vices of legislation. As originally passed, it was homogeneous...

...manufactures, to which was referred the Assembly bill entitled "An act to extend the operation and effect of the act passed February 17, 1848, entitled 'An act...manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes,' " reported in favor of the passage of the same, and said bill was committed to the committee of the...

...committee on the judiciary. . Also, a bill entitled ''An act to extend the operation and effect of the act passed February 17, 1848, entitled 'An act...formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining and mechanical purposes," which was read the first time, and by unanimous consent was also read the...

...it is therefore unnecessary to consider the other questions. Section 10 of chapter 40 of the Laws of 1848, entitled "An act to authorize the formation...manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes,'' provided that the stockholders of a corporation incorporated thereunder should be "severally individually...

...rule, bat by the law of the state of New York, under which this corporation was organized, ie, "An Act to Authorize the Formation of Corporations for Manufacturing,...Mining, Mechanical, or Chemical Purposes," passed Feb. 17, 1848 (Laws 1848, chap. 40), it was declared in § 8 that "it shall not be lawful for such...

...into a corporation in the manner specified and required ^oudla. in and by the act entitled " An act to authorize the formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes, passed February seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight," for the purpose of constructing...