ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION. 



The Carnegie Institution was originally organized under the law 

 governing the organization of corporations in the District of Colum- 

 bia. Owing to certain limitations in the law, the Trustees deemed 

 it desirable to obtain articles of incorporation from the Congress. 

 Accordingly, articles of incorporation were prepared, submitted to 

 the Congress, amended by the Congress, and enacted into statute by 

 the Congress and the signature of the President. 



Organization under the new articles of incorporation was effected 

 on May i8, 1904. Resolutions were passed electing the same Execu- 

 tive Committee and officers as those of the Carnegie Institution 

 organized in 1902 and continuing all instructions and authorizations 

 given to the Executive Committee by the old organization. 



Public No. 260. — An .\ct To incorporate the Carnegie Institution of 



Washington. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That the persons following, 

 being persons who are now trustees of the Carnegie Institution, 

 namely, Alexander Agassiz, John S. Billings, John L. Cadwalader, 

 Cleveland H. Dodge, WilHam N. Frew, Lyman J. Gage, Daniel C. 

 Oilman, John Hay, Henry L- Higginson, William Wirt Howe, 

 Charles L. Hutchinson, Samuel P. Langley, William Lindsay, Seth 

 Low, Wayne MacVeagh, Darius O. Mills, S. Weir Mitchell, William 

 W. Morrow, Ethan A. Hitchcock, Elihu Root, John C. Spooner, 

 Andrew D. White, Charles D. Walcott, Carroll D. Wright, their 

 associates and successors, duly chosen, are hereby incorporated and 

 declared to be a body corporate by the name of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington and by that name shall be known and have 

 perpetual succession, with the powers, limitations, and restrictions 

 herein contained. 



Sec. 2. That the objects of the corporation shall be to encourage, 

 in the broadest and most liberal manner, investigation, research, 

 and discovery, and the application of knowledge to the improvement 

 of mankind ; and in particular — 



(a) To conduct, endow, and assist investigation in any depart- 

 ment of science, literature, or art, and to this end to cooperate with 

 governments, universities, colleges, technical schools, learned socie- 

 ties, and individuals. 



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