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Act of Incorporation:
A National Academy of Sciences
AN ACT To incorporate the National Academy of Sciences
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That Louis Agassiz, Massachusetts; l. H.
Alexander, Maryland; S. Alexander, New Jersey; A. D. Bache, at large;
F. B. Barnard, at large; I. G. Barnard, United States Army, Massachusetts;
W. H. C. Bartlett, United States Military Academy, Missouri; U. A. Boyden,2
Massachusetts; Alexis Caswell, Rhode Island; William Chauvenet, Missouri;
I. H. C. Coffin, United States Naval Academy, Maine; I. A. Dahlgren,2
United States Navy, Pennsylvania; I. D. Dana, Connecticut; Charles H.
Davis, United States Navy, Massachusetts; George Englemann, Saint Louis,
Missouri; l. F. Frazer, Pennsylvania; Wolcott Gibbs, New York; I. M. Giles,3
United States Navy, District of Columbia; A. A. Gould, Massachusetts; B. A.
Gould, Massachusetts; Asa Gray, Massachusetts; A. Guyot, New jersey;
James Hall, New York; Joseph Henry, at large; l. E. Hilgard, at large,
Illinois; Edward Hitchcock, Massachusetts; J. S. Hubbard, United States
' The correct name of this charter member was F. A. P. Barnard.
2 Declined.
5 The correct name of this charter member was J. M. Gilliss.
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Naval Observatory, Connecticut; A. A. Humphreys, United States Army,
Pennsylvania; I. L. Le Conte, United States Army, Pennsylvania; I. Leidy,
Pennsylvania; l. P. Lesley, Pennsylvania; M. F. Longstreth, Pennsylvania;
D. H. Mahan, United States Military Academy, Virginia; l. S. Newberry,
Ohio; H. A. Newton, Connecticut; Benjamin Peirce, Massachusetts; John
Rodgers, United States Navy, Indiana; Fairman Rogers, Pennsylvania; R. E.
Rogers, Pennsylvania; W. B. Rogers, Massachusetts; L. M. Rutherfurd, New
York; Joseph Saxton, at large; Benjamin Silliman, Connecticut; Benjamin
Silliman, junior, Connecticut; Theodore Strong, New Jersey; John Torrey,
New York; }. G. Totten, United States Army, Connecticut; Joseph Winlock,
United States Nautical Almanac, Kentucky; lefties Wyman, Massachusetts;
I. D. Whitney, California; their associates and successors duly chosen, are
hereby incorporated, constituted, and declared to be a body corporate, by
the name of the National Academy of Sciences.
SEC. O. And be it further enacted, That the National Academy of Sciences
shall consist of not more than fifty ordinary members, and the said corpora-
tion hereby constituted shall have power to make its own organization,
including its constitution, bylaws, and rules and regulations; to fill all
vacancies created by death, resignation, or otherwise; to provide for the
election of foreign and domestic members, the division into classes, and all
other matters needful or usual in such institution, and to report the same to
Congress.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the National Academy of Sciences
shall hold an annual meeting at such place in the United States as may be
designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any depart-
ment of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report
upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations,
examinations, experiments, and reports to be paM from appropriations
which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no
compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United
States.
Approved, March 3, ~863.
ABRAHAM Lit NCOLN, President.
A M E N D M E N T S
GALUSHA A. Grow,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
SOLOMON FOOTE,
President of the Senate pro tempore.
AN ACT To amend the act to incorporate the National Academy of
Sciences
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the act to incorporate the National
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Academy of Sciences, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-
three, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to remove the limitation of
the number of ordinary members of said Academy as provided in said act.
Approved, July ~4, ~870.
AN ACT To authorize the National Academy of Sciences to receive and
hold trust funds for the promotion of science, and for other purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the National Academy of Sciences, incor-
porated by the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred
and sixty-three, and its several supplements be, and the same is hereby,
authorized and empowered to receive bequests and donations and hold the
same in trust, to be applied by the said Academy in aid of scientific
investigations and according to the will of the donors.
Approved, June 20, ~ 884.
AN ACT To amend the act authorizing the National Academy of Sciences to
receive and hold trust funds for the promotion of science, and for other
purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the act to authorize the National Academy
of Sciences to receive and hold trust funds for the promotion of science,
and for other purposes, approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-four, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
"That the National Academy of Sciences, incorporated by the act of Con-
gress approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be, and the
same is hereby, authorized and empowered to receive by devise, bequest,
donation, or otherwise, either real or personal property, and to hold the
same absolutely or in trust, and to invest, reinvest, and manage the same in
accordance with the provisions of its constitution, and to apply said property
and the income arising therefrom to the objects of its creation and according
to the instructions of the donors: Provided, however, That the Congress may
at any time limit the amount of real estate which may be acquired and the
length of time the same may be held by said National Academy of Sciences."
SEC. 9. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly
reserved.
Approved, May 27, ~9~4.
Representative terms from entire chapter:
eighteen hundred
