1877.] 



SENATE — No. 5. 



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[Senate No. 51.] 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



In Senate, February 23, 1876. 



The Committee on Education, to whom was referred the petition 

 of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, have con- 

 sidered the same, and report the accompanying Bill. 



By order of Committee, 



JOHN SARGENT. 



AN ACT 



Concerning the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Be U enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General 

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



Section^ 1. The Trustees of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology are authorized and empowered to conve} r all the property 

 in their hands to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, 

 upon the same trusts upon which it is now held by said Trustees, 

 and upon such other trusts not conflicting or inconsistent therewith 

 as said corporations may agree upon, and the said President and 

 Fellows of Harvard College are authorized to receive said property 

 upon said trusts, and shall thereupon have all the powers and be 

 subject to all the duties in relation to the said propert}- given to and 

 imposed upon the said Trustees by their act of incorporation and 

 the acts in amendment thereof. 



Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



