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pose of the same at pleasure; provided, that it shall not divert any do¬ 
nation 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 alien¬ 
ated 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 in¬ 
stitution. 
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 Wiscon¬ 
sin, made in response to a presentation by a committee of the Academy ap¬ 
pointed December 29, 1897, each volume of the Transactions may be issued in 
two consecutive parts; so that a publication may thus be issued each year cov¬ 
ering the papers accepted after the previous annual meeting. The Academy 
allows each author one hundred separate reprints of his paper from the Trans¬ 
actions 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 hun¬ 
dred 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 
or freight charges, properly certified to, shall be paid out of the state 
treasury. 
