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vacant; but any vacancy occasioned by the death, resignation, or 

 otherwise, of any of the other persons named in this act (except the 

 members designated ex-officiis), or of the successors of such persons, 

 shall be filled by election by the whole Board of Trustees, at meetings 

 specially called for that purpose. 



Section 4. The said Trustees shall arrange, so far as may be done 

 consistently with the interests of the institution, for the distribution 

 of duplicate specimens, by exchange or otherwise, among other col- 

 leges and institutions of learning in this Commonwealth and else- 

 where. And the Museum belonging to said Trustees shall, at all 

 reasonable times, and under reasonable regulations, be kept open to 

 the public free of charge. 



Section 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 



House of Representatives, April 5, 1859. 

 Passed to be enacted. 



CHARLES HALE, Speaker. 



In Senate, April 6, 1859. 

 Passed to be enacted. 



CHARLES A. PHELPS, President. 



April 6, 1859. 

 Approved. 



NATH'L P. BANKS. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-nine. 



An Act to increase the School Fund, and to grant aid to the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, Tufts, Williams, and Amherst Colleges, and 

 the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, out of the proceeds of the sales 

 of the Back Bay Lands. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 

 Court assembled, and by .the authority of the same, as follows : — 

 Section 1. The avails of the sales of lands belonging to the Com- 



