CONSTITUTION 



OF THE 



American Museum of Natural History 



IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 

 Amended May 10, 1909 



ARTICLE I 



This Corporation shall be styled The American Museum of 

 Natural History. 



ARTICLE II 



The several persons named in the charter, and such others 

 as they may add to their number, which shall not exceed 

 twenty-five in all at one time, and in addition, the Mayor, the 

 Comptroller, and the President of the Department of Public 

 Parks, of the City of New York, for the time being, ex-officio, 

 shall be the Trustees to manage the affairs, property and 

 business of the Corporation. 



The members of the Board of Trustees holding office at 

 the time of the regular quarterly meeting of November, 1905, 

 shall then, or at the first meeting of the Boartf thereafter, be 

 divided by lot into five classes of five members each, to serve 

 for the terms of one, two, three, four and five years respec- 

 tively from the date of the annual meeting of February, 1906. 

 The Board of Trustees at each annual meeting thereafter, or 

 an adjournment thereof, shall by ballot, by a majority vote of 

 the Trustees present at the meeting, elect five Trustees to 

 supply the places of the class whose term expires at that meet- 

 ing; said newly elected Trustees to hold office for five years 

 or until their successors are elected. In case of a vacancy in 

 the Board by death, resignation, disqualification or otherwise, 

 the vacancy shall be filled by ballot, in like manner, by the 

 Board of Trustees at any regular meeting or special meeting, 

 for the unexpired term. No person shall be eligible for elec- 

 tion as Trustee who shall not be a " Patron " of the Museum, 

 unless by a unanimous vote of a quorum of the Board, nor be 



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