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7. The diffusion of knowledge by the publication of original con¬ 
tributions to science, literature, and the arts. 
Section 3. Said Academy may have a common seal and alter the 
same at pleasure; may ordain and enforce such constitution, regula¬ 
tions, and by-laws as may be necessary, and alter the same at pleasure; 
may receive and hold real and personal property, and may use and 
dispose of the same at pleasure; provided, that it shall not divert any 
donation or bequest from the uses and objects proposed by the donor, 
and that none of the property acquired by it shall, in any manner, be 
alienated other than in the way of exchange of duplicate specimens, 
books, and other effects, with similar institutions and in the manner 
specified in the next section of this act, without the consent of the 
legislature. 
Section 4. It shall be the duty of the said Academy, so far as the 
same may be done without detriment to its own collections, to furnish, 
at the discretion of its officers, duplicate typical specimens of objects 
in natural history to the University of Wisconsin, and to the other 
schools and colleges of the state. 
Section 7. Any existing society or institution having like objects 
embraced by said Academy, may be constituted a department thereof, 
or be otherwise connected therewith, on terms mutually satisfactory to 
the governing bodies of the said Academy and such other society or 
institution. 
Approved March 16, 1870. 
