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4 Incorporation 
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 take and hold by gift, devise, 
bequest, purchase or lease, either absolutely or in trust, for 
any purpose comprised in the objects of the Corporation, any 
real or personal estate, necessary or proper for the purposes 
of its incorporation. + 
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, and shall be and be classed as an educa- 
tional corporation.* 
Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. 
STATE OF NEW YORK, t ss k 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF 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, 
[1.. s.] this fourteenth day of April, in the year one thousand 
eight hundred and sixty-nine. 
D. WILLERS, Jr., Deputy Secretary of State. 
+ Section 3. As amended by Chapter 303, Laws of 1898, of the State of New York, en- 
titled ‘‘An Act to amend chapter one hundred and nineteen, laws of eighteen hundred and 
sixty-nine, entitled ‘An Act to incorporate the American Museum of Natural History,’ 
relative to its charter.”’ 
* Sections rand 4. As amended by Chapter 162 of the Laws of 1go9, entitled “An Act 
to amend chapter one hundred and nineteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, 
entitled ‘An Act to incorporate the American Museum of Natural History,’ in relation to 
classifying said corporation and modifying its corporate purposes,”’ 
