REPORT 27240 OF THE 272416 Women's Educational and Industrial Union FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY 2, 1882. BOSTON: No. 157 TREMONT STREET. ACT OF INCORPORATION. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. BE IT KNOWN that whereas HARRIET CLISBY, ARVILLA B. HAYNES, MELISSA CHAMBERLIN, Sarah E. EATON, ABBY M. Diaz, Sarah E. COTTING, and Elizabeth G. GAY have associated themselves with the intention of forming a corporation under the name of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, for the purpose of increasing fellowship among women, in order to promote the best practical methods for securing their education, industrial and social advancement, and have complied with the provisions of the Statutes of this Commonwealth in such case made and provided, as appears from the certificate of the President, Treasurer, and Directors of said corporation, duly approved by the Commissioner of Corporations, and recorded in this office, Now, therefore, I, HENRY B. PEIRCE, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that said HARRIET CLISBY, ARVILLA B. HAYNES, MELISSA CHAMBERLIN, SARAH E. EATON, ABBY M. DIAZ, SARAH E. COTTING, and ELIZABETH G. GAY, their associates and successors, are legally organized and established as and are hereby made an existing corporation under the name of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, with the powers, rights, and privileges, and subject to the limitations, duties, and restrictions which by law appertain thereto. Witness my official signature hereunto subscribed, and the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereunto affixed, this twenty-third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty. (Signed) HENRY B. PEIRCE, Secretary of the Commonwealth. PRESS OF GEO. H ELLIS, 141 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON. |