Extracts from the Charter. 667 



Section 3. Said Academy may have a common seal and alter the 

 same at pleasure; may ordain and enforce such constitution, regula- 

 tions, and by-laws as may be necessary, and alter the same at pleasure; 

 may receive and hold real and personal property, and may use and 

 dispose of the same at pleasure; provided, that it shall not divert any 

 donation or bequest from the uses and objects proposed by the donor, 

 and that none of the property acquired by it shall, in any manner, be 

 alienated other than in the way of exchange of duplicate specimens, 

 books, and other effects, with similar institutions and in the manner 

 specified in the next section of this act, without the consent of the 

 legislature. 



Sectiox 4, It shall be the duty of the said Academy, so far as the 

 same may be done without detriment to its own collections, to furnish, 

 at the discretion of its officers, duplicate typical specimens of objects 

 in natural history to the University of Wisconsin, and to the other 

 schools and colleges of the state. 



Section 7. Any existing society or institution having like objects 

 embraced by said Academy, may be constituted a department thereof, 

 or be otherwise connected therewith, on terms mutually satisfactory to 

 the governing bodies of the said Academy and such other society or 

 institution. 



Approved Morch 16, 1870. 



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