AN ACT 



TO INCORPORATE THE 



LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 



Passed April 20, l8i8. 



I . WHEREAS the members of the Lyceum of Natural History have peti- 

 tioned for an act of incorporation, and the Legislature, impressed with the im- 

 portance of the study of Natural History, as connected with the wants, the 

 comforts, and the happiness of mankind, and conceiving it their duty to encour- 

 age all laudable attempts to promote the progress of science in this State — 

 therefore, 



Be it enacted by the People of the State of New Vori; represented in Senate 

 and Assembly, That Samuel L. Mit chill, Casper W. Eddy, Frederick C. 

 Schaeffer, Nathaniel Paulding, William Cooper, Benjamin P. Kissam, John 

 Torrey, William Cumberland, D. Jurco V. Knevels, James Clements, and 

 James Pierce, and such other persons as now are, and may from time to time 

 become members, shall be, and hereby are constituted a body corporate and 

 politic, by the name of Lyceum of Natural History in the City of New 

 York, and that by that name they shall have perpetual succession, and shall be 

 persons capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answer- 

 ing and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and 

 places whatsoever ; and may have a common seal, with power to alter the same 

 from time to time ; and shall be capable of purchasing, taking, holding, and 

 enjoying, to them and their successors, any real estate in fee simple or other- 

 wise, and any goods, chattels, and personal estate, and of selling, leasing, or other- 

 wise disposing of the said real or personal estate, or any part thereof, at their 

 will and pleasure : Provided always, that the clear annual value or income of 

 such real or personal estate shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars : 

 Provided, however, that the funds of the said corporation shall be used and 

 appropriated to the promotion of the objects stated in the preamble to this Act, 

 and those only. 



