CHARTER. 
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE “WISCONSIN ACADEMY OP 
SCIENCES, ARTS AND LETTERS.” 
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, 
do enact as follows: 
Section 1. Lucius Fairchild, Nelson Dewey, John W. Hoyt, In¬ 
crease A. Lapham, Alexander Mitchell, Wm. Pitt Lynde, Joseph Hob- 
bins, E. B. Wolcott, Solon Marks, R. Z. Mason, G. M. Steele, T. C. Cham¬ 
berlin, James H. Eaton, A. L. Chapin, Samuel Fallows, Charles Preuser, 
Wm. E. Smith, J. C. Foye, Wm. Dudley, P. Englemann, A. S. McDill, John 
Murrish, Geo. P. Delaplaine, J. G. Knapp, S. V. Shipman, Edward D. Hol¬ 
ton, P. R. Hoy, Thaddeus C. Pound, Charles E. Bross, Lyman C. Draper, 
John A. Byrne, O. R. Smith, J. M. Bingham, Henry Bsetz, LI. Breese, 
Thos. S. Allen, S. S. Barlow, Chas. R. Gill, C. L. Harris, George Reed, 
J. G. Thorp, William Wilson, Samuel D. Hastings and D. A. Baldwin, at 
present being members and officers of an association known as “ The 
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters,” located at the city 
of Madison, together with their future associates and successors forever, 
are hereby created a body corporate by the name and style of the “ Wis¬ 
consin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters,” and by that name shall 
have perpetual succession; shall be capable in law of contracting and 
being contracted with, of suing and being sued, of pleading and being 
impleaded in all courts of competent jurisdiction; and may do and per¬ 
form such acts as are usually performed by like corporate bodies. 
Section 2. The general objects of the Academy shall be to encourage 
investigation and disseminate correct views in the various departments 
of science, literature and the arts. Among the specific objects of the 
Academy shall be embraced the following: 
1. Researches and investigations in the various departments of the 
material, metaphysical, ethical, ethnological and social sciences. 
2. A progressive and thorough scientific survey of the state, with a 
view of determining its mineral, agricultural and other resources. 
3. The advancement of the useful arts, through the applications of 
science, and by the encouragement of original invention. 
4. The encouragement of the fine arts, by means of honors and prizes 
awardedfto artists for original works of superior merit. 
5. The formation of scientific, economical and art museums. 
