a:n~ 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. 



T7te People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and As- 

 sembly, 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 duplicate 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, sub- 

 ject, 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 Histoiy, 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, [ 



I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in 

 this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct tran- 

 script therefrom, and of the whole of said original law. 



^^x^_ Given under my hand and seal of office, at the city 

 \ seal. )■ of Albany, this seventeenth day of August, in the 

 " — Y ' year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. 



D. WILLERS, Jr., 



Deputy Secretary of State. 



