7 2 Incorporation. 



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 in- 

 corporation. 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." 



