CHARTER 



NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



CHyVPTER 135, LAWS OF 18!),5. 



AN ACT to im'or])orate the New York Zoological Society and to provide for the 

 establishment of a zoological garden in the city of New York. 



As amended bv Chapter Ufi of the Laws of 1902; and l)v Chapter 240 of the 

 Laws of 1910. 



See Chapter 432 of the Laws of 1900. 



See Chapter of the city of New York, Section 6'26 of the Laws of 1901 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 

 do enact as follows: 



Section 1. Charles A. Dana, Oswald Ottendorfer, Andrew H. Green, William 

 H. Webb, Henry H. Cook, Samuel D. Babcock, Charles R. Miller, George G. 

 Haven, J. Hampden Robb, Frederick W. DeVoe, J. Seaver Page, Rush C. Haw- 

 kins, David James King, Wager Swayne, Charles A. Peabody, Jr., Charles E. 

 Wbitehead, Charles R. Flint, Samuel Parsons, Jr., Mornay Williams, Henry E. 

 Gregory, Isaac W. Maclay, Isaac Rosenwald, Hugh N. Camp, Andrew D. Parker, 

 Cornelius Van Cott, Wiiliam F. Havemeyer, Frederick Shonnard, William W. 

 Thompson, Alexander Hadden, Edward I>. Owen, John H. Starin, Rush S. Huide- 

 koper, William W. Goodrich, Albert H. Gallatin, Frederick S. Church, Edward 

 C. Spitzka, Robert L. Niles, Madison Grant, C. Grant La Farge, William Van 

 Valkenburg, and sucii other persons as may, under the provisions of its by-laws, 

 become members of the corporation hereby created, are hereby created a body 

 corporate and politic, by and under the name of New York Zoological Society. 



Sec. 2. Said corporation shall have power to establish, maintain and control 

 zoological parks, gardens, or other collections for the promotion of zoology and 

 kindred subjects, and for the instruction and recreation of the people. Said cor- 

 poration may collect, hold, and expend funds for zoological research and publica- 

 tion, for the protection of wild animal life, and for kindred purposes, and may 

 promote, form, and co-0]:)erate with other associations with similar purposes, and 

 may purchase, sell, or exchange animals, plants, and specimens appropriate to the 

 olijects for wliich it was created. 



Sec. 3. The managers of said corporation shall have power to make and 

 adopt by-laws for the management and government of its affairs and business, 

 for the admission, suspension, and expulsion of its members, and for the terms 

 and conditions of memljcrship; to ])rescribe the number and mode of election of 

 its officers; to define their duties; to provide for the safe-keeping of its property, 

 and from time to time to alter and modifj' its By-laws. 



