INCORPORATION. 



AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



Passed ^.pril 6, 1869. 



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

 sembly, do enact as folloivs : 



Section 1. John David Wolfe, Robert Colgate, Benjamin H. 

 Field, Robert L. Stuart, Adrian Iselin, Benjamin B. Sherman, 

 William A. Haines, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Potter, Wil- 

 liam T. Blodgett, Morris K. Jesup, D. Jackson Steward, J. Pier- 

 pont 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 Mu- 

 seum 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 gen- 

 eral 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 

 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- 



