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INCORPORATION. 



AN ACT 

 TO INCORPORATE THE 



^nuruan liwimi of Xateral fetori), 



Passed April 6, 1869. 



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

 do enact as follows : 

 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, 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 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 general knowledge of kindred sub- 

 jects, 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-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 per- 

 sonal 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 Eighteenth 

 Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes. 



Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. 



