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 with a particular account of all monies by the said corporation expended in the preceding three years, specifying the several purposes to which it has been applied; and if it should appear to the said chancellor, that any monies, except for the necessary purchases or repair of any buildings which may belong to the said corporation, or for the payment of the Treasurer or Secretary thereof, or for other charges expressly incidental to the management of the funds thereof, have been applied by the said corporation to any use, other than for the support of indigent emigrants and other German poor and their descendants, or other charitable purposes, he shall direct the Attorney General of the State for the time being ex-officio to file an information against the said corporation in the Supreme Court of this State: and if upon the traverse the said corporation shall be found guilty and judgment shall pass thereupon, that thenceforth the said corporation shall cease, and become null and void, and the estate real and personal which it may then possess, shall vest in the people of this State.

And be it further enacted, That this act be and hereby is declared to be a public act, and that the same be construed in all courts and places benignly and favorably for every beneficial purpose therein intended.

State of New-York, Secretary's office.

I certify the preceding to be a true copy of an Act of the Legislature, now on file in this office, []ARCH'D. M'INTYRE, Dep. Sec'y