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(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. 



(e) To purchase such property, real or personal, and construct 

 such building or buildings as may be necessary to carry on the work 

 of the corporation. 



(f ) In general, to do and perform all things necessary to promote 

 the objects of the institution, with full power, however, to the trus- 

 tees hereinafter appointed and their successors from time to time to 

 modify the conditions and regulations under which the work shall 

 be carried on, so as to secure the application of the funds in the 

 manner best adapted to the conditions of the time, provided that the 

 objects of the corporation shall at all times be among the foregoing 

 or kindred thereto. 



Sec. 3. That the direction and management of the affairs of the 

 corporation and the control and disposal of its property and funds 

 shall be vested in a board of trustees, twenty-two in number, to be 

 composed of the following individuals : 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. WiUiam W. Morrow, Ethan A. Hitchcock, 

 Elihu Root, John C. Spooner, Andrew D. White, Charles D. Wal- 

 cott, Carroll D. Wright, who shall constitute the first board of trus- 

 tees. The board of trustees shall have power from time to time to 

 increase its membership to not more than twenty-.seven members. 

 Vacancies occasioned by death, resignation, or otherwise shall be 

 filled by the remaining trustees in such manner as the by-laws shall 

 prescribe ; and the persons so elected shall thereupon become trustees 

 and also members of the said corporation. The principal place of 

 business of the said corporation shall be the city of Washington, in 

 the District of Columbia. 



Sec. 4. That such board of trustees shall be entitled to take, hold 

 and administer the securities, funds, and property so transferred by 

 said Andrew Carnegie to the trustees of the Carnegie Institution and 

 such other funds or property as may at any time be given, devised, 

 or bequeathed to them, or to such corporation, for the purposes of 

 the trust ; and with full power from time to time to adopt a common 



