Certificate of Incorporation

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

This Certificate of Incorporation, made the sixteenth day of May, 1865, WITNESSETH, that we, whose names are hereunto subscribed, have associated, and by the presents do associate ourselves, under and in pursuance of the requirements of the laws of 1848, of the State of New York, Chapter 319, entitled "An Act for the Incorporation of Benevolent, Charitable, Scientific, and Missionary Societies," and the acts amendatory thereof.

I

The corporate name by which this Association shall be known in law is THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

II

The particular business and objects of this Association shall be the collection and preservation of coins and medals, the investigation of matters connected therewith, and the popularization of the science of Numismatology; also the collection, examination, and elucidation of the antiquities of this and other countries.

IIIc

The number of managers of the business of the Association shall be eight.

IV

The names of the persons who are to manage the business of the Association during the first year of its existence are: FRANK H. NORTON, President; GEORGE H. PERINE, 1st Vice-President; ISAAC J. GREENWOOD, JR., 2nd Vice-President; JAMES OLIVER, Recording Secretary; F. AUGUSTUS WOOD, Corresponding Secretary; JOHN HANNA, Treasurer; FRANK LEATHE, Librarian; and EDWARD GROH, Curator.  [Endorsed and filed June 8, 1865]

V

The place of business or principal office of the Association shall be located in the City of New York.

FRANK H. NORTON

ISAAC J. GREENWOOD, JR.

JOHN HANNA

JAMES OLIVER

F. AUGUSTUS WOOD

FRANK LEATHE

EDWARD GROH

DANIEL PARISH, JR.

WM. WOOD SEYMOUR

In the presence of JOSEPH K. MURRAY.

(Acknowledged May 16, 1865)

I hereby approve of and consent to the filing of the within Certificate of Incorporation of the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society, in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York, and in the Office of the Clerk of the City and County of New York.

June 7, 1865.D.P. INGRAHAM,

Justice of the Supreme Court,

Of the First Judicial District.

[Endorsed and filed June 8, 1865-

(Filed as authorized June 8, 1865)

N.B. By mesne amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation the number of the managers of the business was changed to fifteen.

By mesne amendments to the Constitution the managers of the business were designated members of the Council.

CHANGE OF NAME

AT A SPECIAL TERM OF THE SUPREME COURT of the State of New York, Part I thereof, held in and for the County of New York, for the hearing of motions, at the County Court House, in the Borough of Manhattan, in the City of New York, on the 16th day of May, 1907. Present: Hon. Vernon M. Davis, Justice. In the matter of the application of THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY for leave to change its name.

Upon reading and filing the petition of The American Numismatic and Archaeological Society, a domestic membership corporation duly verified May 1st, 1907, by Archer M. Huntington, its President, and Bauman L. Belden, its Secretary, wherein said petitioner prays for an order authorizing it to assume another corporate name, to wit: The American Numismatic Society, and the certificate of the Secretary of State, annexed thereto, certifying that the name which said corporation proposes to assume is not the name of any other domestic corporation, or a name which he deems so nearly resembling it as to be calculated to deceive, and due proof by affidavits that notice of the presentation of said petition has been duly published once each week for three successive weeks in two daily newspapers published in the County of New York, in which the principal corporate property of said corporation is situated, and in which its operations are and heretofore have been principally conducted, and the Court being satisfied by said petition, affidavits, and certificate that the said petition is true, that there is no reasonable objection to the change of name proposed, that the petition has been duly authorized, and that notice of the presentation of the petition has been given, as required by law.

Now, on motion of S. WHITNEY DUNSCOMB, JR., attorney for the said petitioner, no one opposing, it is

ORDERED, That said petition be, and the same hereby is, granted, and that the petitioner herein, The American Numismatic and Archaeological Society, be, and it hereby is, authorized to assume another corporate name, to wit: The American Numismatic Society, on and after the 1st day of July, 1907; and it is further

ORDERED AND DIRECTED that this order be entered and the papers on which it is granted be filed within ten days from the date hereof in the office of the Clerk of New York County, the county in which the certificate of incorporation of said corporation is filed and that a certified copy of this order within ten days from the entry thereof be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and, further, that a copy of this order be published once a week for four successive weeks in The New York Times, a newspaper in the County of New York, beginning within ten days after the entry of this order. Enter:V.M.D.

Justice Supreme Court.

(Filed and published as ordered)