20o Incorporation 



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.f 



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, and shall be and be classed as an educa- 

 tional corporation.* 



Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. 



STATE OF NEW YORK, \ . 

 Office of the Secretary of State, j " ' 



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 there- 

 from, and of the whole of said original law. 



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

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



thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. 



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



t Section 3. 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." 



* Sections 1 and 4. As amended by Chapter 162 of the Laws of 1909, entitled 

 "An Act to amend chapter one hundred and nineteen of the laws of eighteen hun- 

 dred and sixty-nine, entitled 'An Act to incorporate the American Museum of 

 Natural History,' in relation to classifying said corporation and modifying its cor- 

 porate purposes." 



