CHARTER 
OF THE 
Rew Dork Zoological Soctety. 
CHAPTER 435. 
AN ACT to incorporate the New York Zoological Society and to provide 
for the establishment of a zoological garden in the city of New York. 
Accepted by the city. Becamea law April 26th, 1895, with the approval of the Gov- 
ernor. Passed, three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- 
bly, do enact as follows : 
SEcTION 1. Charles A. Dana, Oswald Ottendorter, Andrew H. Green, 
William H. Webb, Henry H. Cook, Samuel D. Babcock, Charles R. Miller, 
George G. Haven, J. Hampden Robb, Frederic W. De Voe, J. Seaver Page, 
Rush C. Hawkins, David James King, Wager Swayne, Charles A. Peabody, 
Jr., Charles E. Whitehead, 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, William F. Havemeyer, 
Frederick Shonnard, William W. Thompson, Alexander Hadden, Edward 
L. Owen, John H. Starin, Rush S. Huidekoper, 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 such 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 the New York Zoological Society. 
Sec. 2. Said corporation shall have power to establish and maintain in 
said city a zoological garden for the purpose of encouraging and advancing 
the study of zoology, original researches in the same and kindred subjects, 
and of furnishing instruction and recreation to the people, and may pur- 
chase and hold animals, plants and specimens appropriate tothe objects for 
which said corporation is 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 busi- 
ness, for the admission, suspension and expulsion of its members, and for 
the terms and conditions of membership; to prescribe 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 modify its 
by-laws. 
