150 New York at the World's Columbian Exposition. 



place which could fulfill all conditions and meet all demands was the 

 New York State Museum, whose well-organized machinery could rap- 

 idly assimilate and classify the exhibit and at the same time preserve 

 its identity. 



Accordingly at a meeting of the Board of General Managers of the 

 Exhibit of the State of New York at the World's Columbian Exposi- 

 tion, held at the oflice of the president of the board in the city of New 

 York, on Wednesday, January 11, 1894, the following preamble and 

 resolutions were adopted : 



Whebkas, section 20 of chapter 378 of the Laws of New York, 1892, 

 provides that the officer in charge of any State department, bureau, board, 

 commission or other office may * * * transfer to the permanent cus- 

 tody of the State Library or Museum any books, papers, maps, manuscripts, 

 specimens or other articles which * * * ^in in his judgment be more 

 useful to the State in the State Library or Museum than if retained in his 

 keeping; and 



Wheebas, section 22 of the same act provides that all scientific speci- 

 mens and collections, works of art, objects of historic interest and similar 

 property appropriate to a general museum, if owned by the State and not 

 placed in other custody by a specific law, shall constitute the State 

 Museum; and 



Whebeas, section 1, chapter 497, Laws of New York, 1893, declares 

 that any property purchased or provided by the Board of General Man- 

 agers of the Exhibit of the State of New York at the World's Columbian 

 Exposition * * * for use, exhibit or display in connection with the 

 exhibit from the State of New York at the World's Columbian Exposi- 

 tion and paid for from the appropriation provided by either chapter 286 

 of the Laws of 1892, or chapter 188, Laws of 1893, may, from time to 

 time, as shall seem to said board best for the interests of the State, be sold 

 and disposed of by said Board of General Managers or any person or per- 

 sons authorized by said board to sell and dispose of the same; 



Resoloed, in consideration of the agreement of the Board of Regents 

 of the University of the State of New York, to place the State exhibits 

 returned from the World's Columbian Exposition in the State Museum in 

 the Capitol at Albany, that on the giving by the Regents of a receipt for 

 all the exhibits now in the custody of the Board of General Managers, they 

 shall be transferred to the State Museum. 



These resolutions were sent to the Regents of the University of the 

 State of New York, and at a legal meeting held by them in their office 



