Legal Opinion
In re the Mechanics' Society
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided May 15, 1879No. 6943Published
j^PPEAL from the Third District Court, parish of Orleans. Monroe,
1Opinion of the CourtDeBlanc, J.
In 1821, the Legislature of the State incorporated— for charitable purposes and the promotion of mechanical arts — the New Orleans Mechanics’ Society, whose existence was'then limited to twenty years, and — thereafter—extended to the 17th of February, 1871.
In 1850 — by an act approved on the 21st of March, the Governor of the State was authorized and directed to transfer and deliver, and he *628did transfer and deliver to the New Orleans Mechanics’ Society, the possession and occupancy, for ever, of a lot of ground situated in this city and belonging to the State.
By sec. 3 of said Act, it was…
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