An Act granting corporate privileges to a society within these islands known as "The Saint Andrew Society of The Bahamas".

WHEREAS the Reverend Robert Taylor Bailey, the Honourable William Edward Armbrister, the Honourable Alfred Edwin Moseley, Robert Nelson Musgrove, Harcourt Gladstone Malcolm, Esquires, and the Reverend James Hartman Fisher, the office bearers of a Society which has existed within these Islands for over a century and which was established for the purpose of assisting in the relief of those in distress and otherwise have on behalf of the said Society petitioned the Legislature for corporate privileges so as to secure the continuance and permanence of the Society in its future operations:

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Saint Andrew Society Incorporation Act.

2. The present members of the aforesaid Society and such members as shall hereafter from time to time be duly admitted members thereof be and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate for the purpose of affording charitable assistance and relief to persons in distress to have continuance and succession forever by the name of the Saint Andrew Society of the Bahamas.

3. The members of the said Society for the time being and their successors forever shall have full power and authority from time to time to choose officers for the management of the concerns of the said Society and the same or any of them to displace or remove and upon the death resignation or removal of them or any of them others in their place or stead to appoint and put and to make ordain and prescribe rules and orders for the government of the said Society and the same to change and alter and amend as to them may seem expedient:

4. The members of the said Society for the time being and their successors forever may have and use a common seal for the business of the said Society and such seal from time to time may break alter and change at their will and pleasure and shall and may be able and capable in the corporate name of the said Society to purchase take and hold lands messuages and personalty and to sell grant alien assign and dispose of the same or any part thereof at their free will and pleasure and shall and may be able and capable in the corporate name aforesaid to sue and be sued and answer and be answered in any Court or elsewhere in all actions or causes whatsoever for touching or concerning any matter or thing appertaining to the said Society.