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"AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BOTANIC GARDEN AND 

 MUSEUM AND ARBORETUM IN BRONX PARK, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AND 

 TO INCORPORATE THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN FOR CARRYING ON THE 

 SAME. 



"Section i. Seth Low, Charles P. Daly, John S. Newberry, Charles A. 

 Dana, Addison Brown, Parke Godwin, Henry C. Potter, Charles Butler, 

 Hugh J. Grant, Edward Cooper, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Nathaniel L. 

 Britton, Morris K. Jesup, J. Piermont Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas 

 F. Gilroy, Eugene Kelly, Jr., Richard T. Auchmuty, D. O. Mills, Charles 

 F. Chandler, Louis Fitzgerald, Theodore W. Myers, Wm. C. Schermer- 

 horn, Oswald Ottendorfer, Albert Gallup, Timothy F. Allen, Henry R. 

 Hoyt, William G. Choate, Wm. H. Draper, John S. Kennedy, Jesse Selig- 

 man,Wm. L. Brown, David Lydig, William E. Dodge, Jas. A. Scrymser, 

 Samuel Sloan, Wm. H. Robertson, Stephen P. Nash, Richard W. Gilder, 

 Thomas Hogg, Nelson Smith, Samuel W. Fairchild, Robert Maclay, Wm. 

 H. S. Wood, George M. Olcutt, Chas. F. Cox, Jas. R. Pitcher, Percy R. 

 Pyne, and such persons as are now, or may hereafter be, associated with 

 them, and their successors, are hereby constituted and created a body cor- 

 porate by the name of the New York Botanical Garden, to be located in 

 the city of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a 

 Botanical Garden and Museum and Arboretum therein ; for the collection BoUnTc* 

 and culture of plants, flowers, shrubs and trees ; the advancement of bo- Garden, 

 tanical science and knowledge, and the prosecution of original researches 

 therein and in kindred subjects ; for affording instruction in the same ; for 

 the prosecution and exhibition of ornamental and decorative horticulture 

 and gardening ; and for the entertainment, recreation, and instruction of 

 the people. 



" Sec. 2. Said corporation shall have all such corporate powers, and may 

 take and hold by gift, grant, or devise all such real and personal property 

 as may be necessary and proper for carrying out the purposes aforesaid, 

 and for the endowment of the same, or any branch thereof, by adequate 

 funds therefor. 



"Sec. 3. Said corporation may adopt a constitution and by-laws ; make 

 rules and regulations for the transaction of its business, the admission, 

 suspension and expulsion of the associate members of said corporation, and 

 for the number, election, terms, and duties of its officers, subject to the pro- 

 visions of this act ; and may, from time to time, alter or modify its consti- 

 tution, by-laws, rules and regulations, and shall be subject to the provisions 

 of Title 3 of Chapter 18 of the first part of the Revised Statutes. 



"Sec. 4. The affairs of the said corporation shall be managed and con- 

 trolled by a Board of Managers as follows : The president of Columbia 

 College, the professors of botany, of geology, and of chemistry therein, the 

 president of the Torrey Botanical Club, and the president of the Board of 

 Education of the city of New York, and their successors in office, 

 shall be ex officio members of said corporation and of the Board of Mana- 

 gers, and shall have the management and control of the scientific and 

 educational departments of said corporation and the appointment of the 

 Director-in-Chief of said institution, who shall appoint his first assistant 

 and the chief gardener, and be responsible for the general scientific conduct 

 of the institution. 

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