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12*0 OKP OB ATI ON. 



A1NT ACT 



TO INCORPORATE THE AMERICAN MUSEUM Of NATURAL HISTORY. 



Passed April 6, 1869. 



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

 do enact as follows : 



Sectiok 1. John David Wolfe, Robert Colgate, Benjamin H. Field, 

 Robert L. Stuart, Adrian Iselin, Benjamin B. Sherman, William A. Haines, 

 Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Potter, William T. Blodgett, Morris K. Jesup, 

 D. Jackson Steward, J. Pierpont 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 Museum of Natural 

 History," to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of estab- 

 lishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and Library of Natural 

 History ; of encouraging and developing 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 Constitu- 

 tion 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 keep- 

 ing 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 incorporation, 

 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 Eight- 

 eenth Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes. 



Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. 



