62 Incorporation. 



an election shall be held pursuant to such Constitution and 



By-Laws, the persons named in the first section of this Act 



shall be, and are hereby declared to be, the Trustees and 

 Managers of said Corporation and its property. 



Sec. 3. Said Corporation may take and hold by gift, devise, 

 bequest, purchase or lease, either absolutely or in trust, for 

 any purpose comprised in the objects of the Corporation, any 

 real or personal estate, necessary or proper for the purposes 

 of its incorporation. 1 



Sec. 4. Said Corporation shall possess the general powers, 

 and be subject to the restrictions and liabilities, prescribed in 

 the Third Title of the Eighteenth Chapter of the First Part of 

 the Revised Statutes. 



Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. 



STATE OF NEW YORK, 

 Office of the Secretary of State. 



I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, 

 and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of 

 the whole of said original law. 



Given under my hand and seal of Office at the City of Albany, 

 [l. s.] this fourteenth day of April, in the year one thousand 



eight hundred and sixty-nine. 



D. Willers, Jr., Deputy Secretary of State. 



1 As amended by Chapter 303, Laws of 1898, of the State of New York, entitled "An Act 

 to amend chapter one hundred and nineteen, laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, 

 entitled ' An Act to incorporate the American Museum of Natural History,' relative to its 

 charter." 



