George Christian Anthon, Edward Livingston, Sigismund Hugget, John Jacob Astor, Christian Matthias Heil, David Lydig, George Powers, James Hallet, Henry White, Doctor John William Zeis, John Philips, Francis Childs, John Speyer, Jacob Morton, Christian Rook, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Thomas Morris, Samuel L. Mitchell, George Arcularius, Henry Limberger, Philip Grim, Henry Ortley, junior, John Fisher, John Bartow Prevost, Alexander Von Pfister, Cornelius Christian Westphal, Jacob Hauptman, Jacob Schieffelin, Henry Heisser, Frederick Shoenewolf, Johannes Schultz, John Morton, William Cammeyer, Martin Hoffman, Frederick Beinhauer, Hendrick Scherer, Jacob Bierman, Frederick Rausch, William North, Daniel Bowie, the reverend George Strebeck, George Clussman, John Nicholas Crentzebach, Cornelius Hoffman, Joseph Sterlitz, John Miller, Edward Dunscomb, John Remmey, Benjamin Walker, Anthony Ernest, J. L. Steinback, Matthias Luft, Anthony Rutgers, Daniel Paris, Daniel Baehr, William G. Miller, William Gultzow, George F. Toderhorst, Nicholas I. Roosevelt, Peter Ritter, John Hone, Jacob Sherred, John Nitchie, Henrick Siebeck, Joseph Horn, Lewis Eigenbrodt, Charles Loss, Joseph Meltzer, and their present associates, and all persons being resident within the city or state of New-York, who shall hereafter be members of the said society, shall be, and hereby are, ordained, constituted, and declared to be one body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the name of " The German Society of the city of New-York," until the first Monday in April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and that by that name they and their successors shall and may have succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts or places whatsoever, and all manner of action and actions,
