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collection and preservation of historic records, and the formation of a 
general library. 
7. The diffusion of knowledge by the publication of original contri¬ 
bution 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. 
STATUTES OF 1898. 
TRANSACTIONS OF THE ACADEMY. 
Section 1 ,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 Wis¬ 
consin, 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 consecutive 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 
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