ARTICI.ES OF INCORPORATION 



OF THE 



CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



We, the undersigned, persons of full age, and citizens of the 

 United States, and a majority of whom are citizens of the District 

 of Columbia, being desirous to establish and maintain, in the City 

 of Washington, in the spirit of Washington, an institution for pro- 

 moting original research in science, literature, and art, do hereby 

 associate ourselves as a body corporate for said purpose, under An 

 Act to establish a code of I^aw for the District of Columbia approved 

 March third, nineteen hundred and one, sections 599 to 604 inclu- 

 sive; and we do hereby certify in pursuance of said act as follows: 



First. The name or title by which such institution shall be known 

 in law is Carnegie Institution. 



Second. The term for which said Institution is organized is per- 

 petual. 



Third. The particular business and objects of the Institution are 

 the promotion of study and research, with power : 



(a) To acquire, hold, and convey real estate and other property 

 necessary for the purposes of the Institution as herein 

 stated, and to establish general and special funds; 



{b) To conduct, endow, and assist investigation in any depart- 

 ment of science, literature, or art, and to this end to co- 

 operate with governments, universities, colleges, techni- 

 cal schools, learned societies, and individuals; 



{c) To appoint committees of experts to direct special lines of 

 research ; 



{d) To publish and distribute documents; 



((?) To conduct lectures; 



(/) To hold meetings; 



{g') To acquire and maintain a library; 



(Ji) And, in general, to do and perform all things necessary to 

 promote the objects of said Institution. 



Fourth. That the affairs, funds, and property of the corporation 

 shall be in general charge of a Board of Trustees, the number of 

 whose members for the first year shall be twenty-seven (27), and 

 shall not thereafter exceed thirty except by a three-fourths vote of 

 said Board. 



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