The King's Order of Natural Science
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The King's Order of Natural Science was a Providence-based corporation formed in 1920 by Orville L. Leach and others, with the stated purpose of "preservation of individual right to select such methods of curing and preventing disease as the person thinks proper, the prevention of vivisection or any cruelty to animals and the overthrow of compulsory vaccination or inoculation of germs or serums" (i.e. anti-vivisectionist and anti-vaccinationist).
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- Acts and Resolves passed by the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, At the January Session, A.D. 1920., Office of the Secretary of State, 1920, p. 938, https://books.google.com/books?id=I8g4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA938
Issued April 1, 1920.
STATE of RHODE ISLAND, &c.I, J. Fred Parker, secretary of state, hereby certify that Orville L. Leach, David S. Fraser, Stephen L. Randall, Howard C. Salisbury, Albert A. Leach and Owen L. Skinner, have filed in the office of the secretary of state, according to law, their agreement to form a corporation under the name of The King's Order of Natural Science, for the purpose of the distribution among its members of the hand book of the order. The further objects of this order are the preservation of individual right to select such methods of curing and preventing disease as the person thinks proper, the prevention of vivisection or any cruelty to animals and the overthrow of compulsory vaccination or inoculation of germs or serums, in accordance with law, and have also filed the certificate of the general treasurer that they have paid into the general treasury of the state the fee required by law.