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 i. 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, Charles A. Dana, Joseph H. Choate, 

 and Henry Parish, and such persons as may hereafter become 

 members 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 knowl- 

 edge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular 

 instruction and recreation. 



§ 2. Said Corporation shall have power to make and adopt a 

 Constitution and By-Laws, and to make rules and regulations 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. 



