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J. Young Scammon, George C. Walker, Horatio G. 

 Loomis, Daniel Thompson, Edmund Aiken, Ezra B. 

 McCagg, Eliphalet W. Blatchford, William E. Doggett, 

 Robert Kennicott, Edmund Andrews, Hosmer A. John- 

 son, Oliver F. Fuller, James W. Freer, William Bross, 

 James V. Z. Blaney, Belden F. Culver, and their asso- 

 ciates and successors forever, are hereby declared and 

 created a body corporate by the name and style of 

 "The Chicago Academy of Sciences," and by that 

 name shall have perpetual succession, shall be capable 

 in law to contract and to be contracted with, sue and 

 be sued, implead and be impleaded, within all courts of 

 competent jurisdiction; may receive, acquire and hold 

 real and personal property and effects, and may sell 

 and dispose of the same at pleasure; may have a common 

 seal, and alter the same at their pleasure; may make 

 such constitutions, regulations and by-laws as may be 

 requisite for its government and for 'carry ing out the 

 objects of the Association, and not contrary to the laws 

 of the land, and may alter the same at their pleasure. 



SEC. 2. The constitution and by-laws of said 

 Association, now in operation, shall govern the cor- 

 poration hereby created until regularly altered or 

 appealed by the Association; and the present officers 

 of said Association shall be officers of the corporation 

 hereby created until their respective terms of office 

 shall regularly expire or be vacated. 



SEC. 3. All the money, property and effects of 

 said "The Chicago Academy of Sciences" shall be 

 held and managed by, and the title thereto, as also the 

 title to all the real estate owned or to be owned by 

 said Academy of Sciences, shall be vested in the board 

 of trustees, from time to time, being as provided in 

 the constitution of said Academy of Sciences; and all 

 contracts and conveyances of said Academy of Sci- 

 ences, to be binding, shall be executed by the president 

 and secretary of the board of trustees. 



SEC. 4. This act shall be a public act, and shall 

 be in force from and after its passage. 



ALLEN C. FULLER, 



Speaker of the House. 



WM. BROSS, 



Speaker of the Senate, 

 Approved February 16, 1865. 

 RICHARD J. OGLESBY. 



