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INCORPORATION. 



Passed ^Vpril 6, 1869. 



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

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. John David Wolfe, Eobert Colgate, Benjamin H. Field, 

 Kobert L. Stuart, Adrian Iselin, Benjamin B. Sherman, William A. 

 Haines, Theodore Koosevelt, Howard Potter, William T. Blodgett, 

 Morris K. Jesup, D. Jackson Steward, J. Pierponf Morgan, A. Gt. 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 develop- 

 ing the study of Natural Science ; of advancing the general knowledge 

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

 and recreation. 



Sec. 2. Said Corporation shall have power to make and adopt a Con- 

 stitution and By-Laws, and to make rules and regulations for the 

 admission, suspension, and expulsion of its members, and their govern- 

 ment, 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. 



Sec. 3. Said Corporation may purchase and hold, or lease any real 

 and personal estate necessary and proper for the purposes of its incor- 

 poration, provided they shall not hold real estate which shall exceed 

 one hundred thousand dollars in value. 



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. 



