Section 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That the president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, monitor, critic and janitor of the Newtonian Society at Rutherford College, Burke County, North Carolina, who now hold the above named offices, and their successors in office, are hereby constituted and declared to be a body corporate under the name and style of the "Newtonian Society," and by such name shall have a common seal, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, acquire and transfer property, confer honorary titles of merit upon the members of said society, and pass all such by-laws and regulations as shall not be inconsistent with the laws of the state or United States.

Sec. 2. That this Act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

Ratified the 6th day of April, A.D., 1871.

Tod R. Caldwell, Governor
Thomas J. Jarvis, Speaker of the House of Representatives
Edward J. Warren, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate

State of North Carolina,
Office Secretary of State,
Raleigh, May 1st, 1871.

I, Henry J. Menninger, Secretary of State, hereby
certify that the foregoing are true copies of the original
private acts on file in this office.

Henry J. Menninger,
Secretary of State.