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Section 3. Said Academy may have a common seal and alter the 
same at pleasure; may ordain and enforce such constitution, regulations, 
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. 
STATUTES OF 1898. 
TRANSACTIONS OF THE ACADEMY. 
Section 341. There shall be printed by the state printer biennially 
in pamphlet form two thousand copies of the transactions of the Wis¬ 
consin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, uniform in style with 
the volumes heretofore printed for said society. 
Note.—Under a ruling of the printing commissioners of the state of Wisconsin, 
made in response to a presentation by a committee of the Academy appointed 
December 29, 1897, each volume of the Transactions may be issued in two con¬ 
secutive parts; so that a publication may thus be issued each year covering the 
papers accepted after the previous annual meeting. The Academy allows each 
author one hundred separate reprints of his paper from the Transactions without 
expense, except a small charge for printed covers when desired. Additional copies 
are charged for at the actual cost of printing and binding. 
OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 
Section 365. The transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, 
Arts, and Letters shall be distributed as follows: One copy to each 
member of the legislature, one copy to the librarian of each state insti¬ 
tution; one hundred copies to the State Agricultural Society; one hundred 
copies to the State Historical Society; one hundred copies to the State 
University, and the remainder to said Academy. 
Section 366. In the distribution of books or other packages, if such 
packages are too large or would cost too much to be sent by mail, they 
shall be sent by express or freight, and the accounts for such express 
