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shall appoint such executive of such board as they may 

 think tit, and the acts of a majority of the members of said 

 board, done at any meeting regularly held or called shall 

 be deemed or taken for all the purposes of the trust, to be 

 the doings and actings of said board, and of said Trustees, 

 and due notice of any such meeting shall bo given [6] by 

 written or printed notices deposited in the post office to the 

 address of each Trustee. The said Trustees at such board 

 shall in accordance with said Trust have full power and 

 authority over, and control of said property hereby devised 

 and bequeathed to them, and the revenue thereof, and its 

 collection and the distribution of the same. They shall have 

 the power of the appointment and removal of the Director 

 and all the other servants and employees connected with 

 the carrying out the objects of the trust. They shall also 

 have the power to prescribe the duties which said Director 

 shall perform, and the other employees and servants con- 

 nected with the carrying out the objects of the Trust, shall 

 be appointed by them, giving due weight to the recommend- 

 ations of the Director. The said Trustees shall have the 

 power whenever they shall have an adequate revenue, and 

 they shall deem it advantageous to establish public lectures 

 upon Botany and its allied sciences, and they may at any 

 time call upon the Director to give the same as a part of 

 his regular duties. The Trustees shall have the power to 

 provide for an addition to the collection of plants, flowers, 

 shrubs and trees, indigenous to this or other states or coun- 

 tries, when in their judgment the means at their disposal 

 will authorize it, and make from time to time exchano-es of 

 plants, flowers and herbaria, and may provide for the in- 

 crease of the museum and library, and its enlargement when 

 necessary. 



5th — There shall always be a Director to said Botanical 

 garden, and institution, to be appointed as hereinbefore 

 provided, and said board of Trustees shall from time to 

 time prescribe his duties; but when within the sphere of 

 his duties thus prescribed and while he shall faithfully per- 



