﻿Incorporation 
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  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." 
  

  

  