176 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 
Mr. Lick to the Academy with certain restrictions, which are set 
forth in a deed dated October 14, 1873. 
This was also informally accepted by the Trustees. Although 
the Trustees, under the law, and the Constitution of the Academy, 
are authorized to take charge of the property of the corporation 
and attend to its temporal affairs, the Board had thought it 
proper in a matter of this importance, to call a meeting of the 
Academy to endorse the action of the Trustees, or authorize them 
to act. It was explained that the new deed to the property on 
Market Street was eminently advantageous to the Society. Also 
that the new ‘‘ Trust Deed” affected the Academy very slightly; 
and as all the other beneficiaries but one had signed, it only re- 
mained for the Academy to assent before sending it East for the 
signature of John H. Lick. 
General Colton called on the Secretary to read the Resolution 
which the Board of Trustees proposed to adopt. 
The Resolution was then read as follows: 
Resolved, That the California Academy of Sciences do hereby accept the 
deed of James Lick, party of the first part, Richard S. Floyd, Faxon D. Ath- 
erton, Sr., Bernard D. Murphy, John H. Lick and John Nightingale, parties 
of the second part, and the California Academy of Sciences, the Society of 
California Pioneers, the Protestant Orphan Asylum, the Ladies’ Protection 
and Relief Society, the Mechanics’ Institute, and the Society for the Preven- 
tion of Cruelty to Animals, the City of San José, A. B. Forbes, J. B. Roberts, 
Iva P. Rankin, Robert McElroy, J. D. B. Stillman, Horace Davis, A. S. Hal- 
lidie, John Oscar Eldridge, and Lorenzo Sawyer, parties of the third part, 
which said deed is dated September 21st, 1875, and all the terms and condi- 
tions thereof, and do hereby release and discharge the said above-mentioned 
parties of the second part, in said deed named, from the performance of any 
of the duties imposed upon them by those certain deeds mentioned therein, 
dated respectively on the 16th day of July, 1874, and the 16th day of Septem- 
ber, 1875, which are inconsistent with the terms and conditions of said first- 
mentioned deed. 
Resolved, further, That David D. Colton (President) and Charles G. Yale 
(Secretary), of the Board of Trustees of this corporation, be and are hereby 
instructed to seal, sign, acknowledge, execute and deliver said first-mentioned 
deed in the name of this corporation, and with their names attached us such 
President and Secretary of the Board, and affix the corporate seal of this 
Academy thereto; and their acts in compliance with the above instructions 
are hereby ratified and confirmed as the act and deed of this corporation. 
Resolved, further, That this corporation also accepts and receives that cer- 
tain other deed from James Lick, party of the first part, to the California 
Academy of Sciences, party of the second part, dated September 21st, 1875. 
