Incorporation 219 



INCORPORATION 



AN ACT 



TO INCORPORATE THE 



AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



Passed April 6, 1869 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. John David Wolfe, Robert Colgate, Benjamin 

 H. Field, Robert L. Stuart, Adrian Iselin, Benjamin B. Sherman, 

 William A. Haines, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Potter, William 

 T. Blodgett, Morris K. Jesup, D. Jackson Steward, J. Pierpont 

 Morgan, A. G. P. Dodge, Chas. A. Dana, Joseph H. Choate and 

 Henry Parish, and such persons as may hereafter become mem- 

 bers of the Corporation hereby created, are hereby created a body 

 corporate, by the name of "The American Museum of Natural 

 History," to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose 

 of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and 

 Library of Natural History; of encouraging and developing the 

 study of Natural Science; of advancing the general knowledge of 

 kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruc- 

 tion.* 



Sec. 2. Said Corporation shall have power to make and 

 adopt a Constitution and By-Laws, and to make rules and regula- 

 tions for the admission, suspension and expulsion of its members, 

 and their government, the number and election of its officers, and 

 to define their duties, and for the safe keeping of its property, 

 and, from time to time, to alter and modify such Constitution, 

 By-Laws, Rules and Regulations. Until 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. 



