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Passed April 6th, 1804.

Philip I. Arcularius, William Wilmerding, and others, citizens and inhabitants of the city of New-York, associated as a society, under the style of "The German Society in the city of New-York," for the laudable purposes of assisting German emigrants, and to afford relief to other poor distressed Germans, and their descendants, and by their petition to the legislature have prayed to be incorporated, Therefore,

Be it enacted, by the People of the State of New-York represented in Senate and Assembly, That the said Philip I. Arcularius, William Wilmerding, Leonhard Fisher Peter Camman, David Grim, John B. Dash, senior, Philip Oswald, Christian Baehr, Christian Schultz, John Gaessner, Alexander Fink, senior, John B. Dash, junior, the reverend Doctor John Christopher Kunze, Christian Wilhelm Wilmerding, Jacob Mark, Blasius Mohr, John Peter Ritter, Isaac Paris, the reverend Henrick Moller, Johannes Mehli, John Harbeck, Charles Newman, Henry Astor, George Gilfert, Carl Ludwig Camman, Doctor