CHARTER 



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AN ACT to incorporate tlic New York Zoological Society and to provide 

 for the estahlishinent of a zoological garden in the city of New York. 



Accepted by the city. Became a law April 2Cth, ISflo, with the approval of the 

 Governor. Pas.sed, three-fifths beiiifj present. 



T/ir Pcof>lc of the State of Xcn' York, itpirstitti'd in Senate and 

 Asseiiihl\\ do enact as follows : 



Skction 1. Charles A. Dana, 0.swald Ottendorfer, Andrew H. C.reen, 

 William H. Webb, Henry H. Cook, Samuel D. Babcock, Charles R. 

 Miller, George G. Haven, J. Hampden Robb, Frederic W. De Yoe, J. 

 Seaver Page, Rush C. Hawkins, David James King, Wager Swayne, 

 Charles A. Peabody, Jr., Charles K. 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. Thomp- 

 son, 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 I'arge, 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 ad- 

 vancing the study of zoology, original researches in the same and kindred 

 subjects, and of furnishing instruction and recreation to the people, and 

 may purchase and hold animals, jilants, and specimens appropriate to the 

 objects for which said corporation is created. 



SiiC. H. 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 membership ; to prescribe the 



