1877.] 



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to the rules and regulations agreed upon in the aforesaid contract 

 of the same date, which should not be repealed or altered except 

 by mutual consent of the said Corporation and the said Trustees : 



And whereas, Since that time a Museum building has been erect- 

 ed by the said Trustees upon the said parcel of land, and large 

 collections have been made, and donations of money and land for 

 the maintenance, support and extension of said Museum, have 

 been contributed, and are held partly b} T the said Trustees and 

 parti} 7 by the said Corporation, and administered under regulations 

 adopted by concurrent vote passed by said Trustees, January 28, 

 1874, and by said Corporation, January 30, 1874, in accordance with 

 the terms of said articles of agreement of June 14, 1859 : 



And whereas. It has been deemed advisable that the ownership, 

 management and control of the said Museum, and collections, 

 lands, funds, and other property held for the purposes of said 

 Museum, should be united in the hands of said Corporation, and the 

 said Legislature has, by Act of March 13, 187G, authorized the 

 said Trustees to convey all the property in their hands to the said 

 Corporation upon the same trusts on which it is now held by the 

 said Trustees, and upon such other trusts not conflicting or incon- 

 sistent therewith, as the said Trustees and the said Corporation 

 ma} r agree upon : 



Now, therefore, In consideration of the premises, the said Trus- 

 tees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology do hereby convey, 

 remise, release and forever quitclaim to the said President and 

 Fellows of Harvard College, all the lands, buildings, Museum, 

 collections, stocks, bonds, notes, mortgages, mone}', funds, accumu- 

 lations and property of whatsoever name or nature held by them, or 

 to which they are in any manner entitled as such Trustees : 



To have and to hold, the granted premises to them the said Pres- 

 ident and Fellows of Harvard College, their successors and assigns, 

 to their use forever ; but in trust, nevertheless, as to all the said 

 property except the said lands for the uses and purposes for which, 

 and subject to the duties and trusts upon which the said Museum 

 and other the granted premises arc held 03; the said Trustees, and 

 upon the further trust that the Museum shall continue to be as at 

 present, under the charge of an independent Faculty constituted 

 and appointed in the manner provided in the sixth article of the 

 conditions named in the aforesaid letter of December 20, 1858, 

 accompanying the said donation of William Gray. And as to the 



