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the uses and objects proposed b}-- the donor, and that none of the property 

 acquired by it shall, in any manner, be alienated other than in the Avay 

 of an exchange of duplicate specimens, books, and other etlects, with 

 similar institutions and in the manner specified in the next section of 

 this act, without the consent of the legislature. 



Section 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 5. It shall be the duty of said Academy to keep a careful 

 record of all its financial and other transactions, and, at the close of each 

 fiscal year, the President thereof shall report the same to the Governor of 

 the State, to be by him laid before the Legislature. 



Section G. The constitution and by-laws of said Academy now in force 

 shall govern the corporation hereby created, until regularly altered or 

 repealed ; and the present officers of said Academy shall be officers of 

 the corporation hereby created, until their respective terms of office shall- 

 regularly expire, or until tlieir places shall be otherwise vacated. 



Section 7. .A.ny existing society or institution having like objects em- 

 braced by said Academy n;ay 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 institu- 

 tion. 



Section 8. For the proper preservation of such scientific specimens, 

 books and other collections as said Academy may make, the Governor 

 shall prepare such apartment or apartments in the Capitol as may be so 

 occupied without inconvenience to the State. 



Section 9. This act shall take eftect and be in force from and after its 

 passage. 



Approved March IG, 1870. 



