20 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Feb. 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



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



An Act to incorporate the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



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 governor, the lieutenant-governor, the president 

 of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the secre- 

 tary of the board of education, the chief justice of the highest judicial 

 court, ex-officiis, and Louis Agassiz and William Gray, together with 

 Jacob Bigelow, James W r alker, George Ticknor, Nathaniel Thayer, 

 Samuel Hooper, Samuel G. Ward, and James Lawrence, and their 

 successors, are hereby made a body politic and corporate, by the name 

 of the " Trustees of the Museum^ of Comparative Zoology," with all 

 the powers and privileges set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the 

 Revised Statutes, so far as the same are applicable to the purposes for 

 which said corporation is established, as hereinafter mentioned, and 

 not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. 



Section 2. Said corporation may receive, hold, purchase, and pos- 

 sess real and personal property not exceeding three hundred thousand 

 dollars in value, to be used and improved for the erection, support, 

 and maintenance of a Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, 

 in this Commonwealth ; and the sum of fifty thousand dollars, here- 

 tofore contributed in aid of the Museum of Comparative Zoology by 

 William Gray, shall be deemed to be part of the sum required to be 

 raised by private subscription for the said Museum, as a condition 

 precedent to the payment by the Commonwealth to said Trustees, of 

 any part of the avails of the sales of land in the Back Bay. 



Section 3. The places of Louis Agassiz and William Gray, whenever 

 the same or either of them shall become vacant by death, resigna- 

 tion, or otherwise, shall be filled by a concurrrent vote of the senate 

 and house of representatives, and the same course shall be afterwards 

 adopted when the place of the successor of either of them shall become 



