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INCORPORATION 
AN 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 : 
Section 1. John David Wolfe, Robert Colgate, Benjamin 
H. Field, Robert L. Stuart, Adrian Iselin, Benjamin B. Sher- 
man, William A. Haines, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Potter, 
William T. Blodgett, Morris K. Jesup, D. Jackson Steward, 
J. Pierpont Morgan, A. G. P. Dodge, Chas. A. Dana, Joseph 
H. Choate and Henry Parish, and such persons as may here- 
after 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 main- 
_ taining 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.* 
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 
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