CHARTER. 



AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE "WISCONSIN ACADEMY OF 

 SCIENCES, ARTS AND LETTERS. 



The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do 



enact as follows : 



Section 1. Lucius Faircliild, Nelson Dewey, John W. Hoyt Increase A 

 Lapham, Alexander Mitchell, Wm. Pitt Lynde, Joseph Hobbins E B Wol- 

 cott, Solon Marks, R. Z. Mason, G. M. Steele, T. C. Chamberlin, James H 

 Eaton, A. L. Chapin, Samuel Fallows, Charles Preuser, Wm. E Smith J 

 Foye, Wm. Dudley, P. Englemann, A. S. McDill, John Murrish, Geo P Dell 

 aplaine, J. G. Knapp, S. V. Shipman, Edward D. Holton, P. R. Hoy Thaddeus 

 C. Pound, Charles E. Bross, Lyman C. Draper, John A. Byrne, o' R Smith 

 J. M. Bingham, Henry B^etz, LI. Breese, Thos. S. Allen, S. S. Barlow, Chas' 

 R. Gill, C. L. Harris, George Reed, J. G. Thorp, William Wilson, Samuel D. 

 Hastings, and D. A. Baldwin, at present being members and officers of an 

 association known as " The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Let- 

 ters," located at the city of Madison, together with their future associates and 

 successors forever, are hereby created a body corporate by the name and style 

 of " The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters," and by that 

 name shall have perpetual succession; shall be capable in law of contracting 

 and being contracted with, of suing and being sued, of pleading and being 

 impleaded in all courts of competent jurisdiction; and may do and perform 

 such acts as are usually performed by like corporate bodies. 

 ^ Section 3. The general objects "of the Academy shall be to encourage 

 investigation and disseminate correct views in the various departments of 

 science, literature and the arts. Among the specific objects of the academy 

 shall be embraced the following: ' 



1. Researches and investigations in the various departments of the material 

 metaphysical, ethical, ethnological and social science. ' 



2. A progressive and 'borough scientific survey of the state, with a view of 

 determining its mineral, agricultural and other resources. 



3. The advancement of the useful arts, through the applications of science 

 and by the encouragement of original invention. ' 



4. The encouragement of the fine arts, bv means of honors and prizes 

 awarded to artists for original works of superior merit. 



5. The formation of scientific, economical and art museums. 



_ 6. The encouragement of philological and historical research, the collec- 

 tion and preservation of historic records, and the formation of a o-eneral 

 library. 



Section 3. Said Academy may have a common seal and alter the same at 

 pleasure; may ordain and enforce such constitution, regulations and by-laws 

 as may be necessary, and alter the same at pleasure ; may receive end hold 

 real and personal property, and may use and dispose of the same at pleasure • 

 provided, that it shall not diven any donation or bequest from the uses and 

 objects proposed by the donor, and that none of the property acquired by it 

 shall, in any manner, be alienated other than in the way of an exchange of 

 duplicate specimens, books, and other eflects, with similar institutions and 

 in the manner specified in the next section of this act, without the consent ot 

 the legislature. 



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