ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION. 



The Carnegie Institution was originally organized under the law governing 

 the organization of corporations in the District of Columbia. Owing to 

 certain limitations in the law, the Trustees deemed it desirable to obtain 

 articles of incorporation from the Congress. Accordingly, articles of incor- 

 poration 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 Executive Committee 

 and officers as those of the Carnegie Institution organized in 1902 and con- 

 tinuing all instructions and authorizations given to the Executive Committee 

 by the old organization. 



Public No. 260. — An Act 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, William 

 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 Institution 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 department of 

 science, literature, or art, and to this end to cooperate with governments, 

 universities, colleges, technical schools, learned societies, and individuals. 



(b) To appoint committees of experts to direct special lines of research. 



(c) To publish and distribute documents. 



(d) To conduct lectures, hold meetings and acquire and maintain a library. 



