AN ACT TO ENABLE HENRY SHAW TO CONVEY 

 OR DEVISE TO TRUSTEES CERTAIN LANDS. 



(reprinted from mo. session acts of 1859, page 434.) 



Henry Shaw authorized and empowered to convey certain real 

 estate to Trustees, for certain special objects and uses. 



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 8tate of Mis- 

 souri, as follows: 



Whereas, Henry Shaw, of the county of St. Louis, con- 

 templates to convey or to devise to Trustees certain tracts 

 of land in the Prairie des Noyers Common Fields and in the 

 Gratiot League Square, partly within and partly without 

 the present limits of the city of St. Louis, containing about 

 seven hundred and sixty acres, in trust upon a portion 

 thereof to keep up, maintain and establish a botanic gar- 

 den for the cultivation and propagation of plants, flowers, 

 fruit and forest trees, and for the dissemination of the 

 knowledge thereof among men, by having a collection there- 

 of easily accessible ; by the establishment of a museum and 

 library in connection therewith, as also by establishment of 

 public lectures and instruction upon botany and its allied 

 sciences, when it shall be deemed advisable in furtherance 

 of the general objects of said trust; and the remaining por- 

 tion to be used for the purpose of maintaining a perpetual 

 fund for the support and maintenance of said garden, its 

 care and increase, and the museum, library and instruction 

 connected therewith, by leasing portions thereof for a term 

 of years, or upon ground or building leases, renewable upon 

 valuation ; and whereas, for the purpose of securing to the 

 said institution a permanent fund for all time, which will 

 not be diverted from the specific object which it is designed 



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