6 a CHARTER. 
until the same shall be regularly altered or repealed, and the 
present officers of said association shall be officers of this cor- 
poration until their respective terms of office shall expire, or 
be vacated in pursuance thereof. 
Src. 3. The property and effects now belonging to the 
association aforesaid shall, on acceptance of this charter, 
thereby become vested in the corporation herein created, and 
all property owned or held by this corporation shall be exempt 
from taxation so long as the same shall continue to be held 
and used in good faith for the objects and purposes aforesaid; 
but whenever any real estate of the corporation shall be leased 
to any other person or persons, a leasehold interest therein 
ay be taxable to ) the essee ¢ s ther 
“Sis. . Whenevtx his: daporki ic ahat — failed toan- || 
swer the purposes for which it was: created, or shall suffer its || 
charter to be forfeited by the law of the land, its cabinet col- 
lections and library shall revert to and become vested in the || 
City of St. Louis, to be deposited with some public institution || 
in said city, for general use and inspection, under near rega- . 
lations as the said City may prescribe. 7 
‘Sec. 6. This act shall be taken asa — act, and be 
force from and after its passage. ? : 
R. G. Hisihe wo 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
H. Jackson, 
t of the Senate. 
ierwel halen uM, 1851. : 
7 TRUSTEN Potk. 
