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A1ST ACT 



to donate to the american museum op natural hlstory a collection 

 prom the duplicate specimens of natural hlstory belonging to the 

 State. 



Passed May 8, 1869, by a two-thirds vote. 



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

 enact as follows : 



Sec 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 of 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, \ gg 



Office of the Secretary op 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 transcript therefrom, and of the 

 whole of said original law. 



__^^^ Given under my hand and seal of office, at the City of Albany, 



■{ seal, y this seventeenth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hun- 

 Y ~ ' dre'd and sixty-nine. 



D. WILLERS, Jr., 



Deputy Secretary of State. 



