ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION. 



Public No. 260. — An Act To incorporate the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington. 



Be in enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That the persons following, being 

 persons who are now trustees of the Carnegie Institution, namely, 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, 

 WiUiam Wirt Howe, Charles L. Hutchinson, Samuel P. Langley, William 

 Lindsay, Seth Low, Wayne MacVeagh, Darius O. Mills, S. Weir Mitchell, 

 William W. Morrow, Ethan A. Hitchcock, Elihu Root, John C. Spooner, 

 Andrew D. White, Charles D. Walcott, Carroll D. Wright, their associates 

 and successors, duly chosen, are hereby incorporated and declared to be a 

 body corporate by the name of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and 

 by that name shall be known and have perpetual succession, with the powers, 

 limitations, and restrictions herein contained. 



Sec. 2. That the objects of the corporation shall be to encourage, in the 

 broadest and most liberal manner, investigation, research, and discovery, 

 and the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind ; and in 

 particular — 



(a) To conduct, endow, and assist investigation in any department of 

 science, literature, or art, and to this end to cooperate with governments, 

 universities, colleges, technical schools, learned societies, and individuals. 



(b) To appoint committees of experts to direct special hues 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 build- 

 ing 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 trustees herein- 

 after appointed and their successors from time to time to modify the con- 

 ditions 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 con- 

 ditions 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 corpora- 

 tion 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 follow- 

 ing individuals: Alexander Agassiz, John S. Billings, John L. Cadwalader, 

 Cleveland H. Dodge, WilUam N. Frew, Lyman J. Gage, Daniel C. Gilman, 

 John Hay, Henry L. Higginson, William Wirt Howe, Charles L. Hutchinson, 

 Samuel P. Langley, William Lindsay, Seth Low, Wayne MacVeagh, Darius 

 0. Mills, S. Weir Mitchell, William W. Morrow, Ethan A. Hitchcock, Elihu 

 Root, John C. Spooner, Andrew D. White, Charles D. Walcott, Carroll D. 



