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A. IN" ACT 



TO DONATE TO THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY A 

 COLLECTION FROM THE DUPLICATE SPECIMENS OF NATURAL 

 HISTORY BELONGING TO THE STATE. 



PASSED MAY 8, 1869, BY A TWO-THIRDS VOTE. 



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

 do enact as follows : 



Section 1. The curator of the State Cabinet, under direction of the 

 regents of the university, is hereby authorized to select from the dupli- 

 cate specimens of natural history belonging to the State, and those 

 which the State may acquire, and from all other specimens of natural 

 history which may be disposed of by the regents or the State, the first 

 and best series of specimens, subject, however, to the rights of other 

 institutions under existing laws, and label the same with their proper 

 scientific names, and present them in the name of the State to the 

 American Museum of Natural History, in the City of New-York, all of 

 which is to be done at the expense of said Museum. 



Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. 



STATE OF NEW-YORK, ) . 



Office of the Secretary of State, f 



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 

 -J seal y Albany, this seventeenth day of August, in the year one 

 " * thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. 



D. WILLERS, JR., 



Deputy Secretary of State. 



