CHARTER. 
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF ST. LOUIS, 
Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, 
as follows: 
Srcrrow 1. That George Engelmann, Hiram A. Prout, Na- 
thaniel Holmes, Benjamin F. Shumard, Charles W. Stevens, 
James B. Eads, Moses M. Pallen, Adoiphus Wislizenus, Charles — 
A. Pope, Charles P. Chouteau, William M. McPheeters, and oth- 
ers—who have heretofore formed an association in the city of 
St. Louis styled “Tue Acapemy or Science or St. Louis,” 
having for its object the advancement of Science, and the estab- 
lishment in said city of a Museum and Library for the illustration 
and study of its various branches—their associates and successors, | 
are hereby declared and created a body corporate by the name — 
_ and style aforesaid; and by that name they shall have perpetual, 
succession, may sue and be sued, implead and be aplea all 
courts of competent jurisdiction; may acquire by purchase : 
— receive _ hold, aleggag? rape n — 
in pheper, for the eae 
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; and may make such constitution, regulations, and — 
. in as may be requisite for the government thereof, not 
ing contrary to the laws of = emt fe alter the 
