VOIGHT, WILLIAM L., VON BERNUTH, FREDERICK A., JR., VON LENGERKE, JUSTUS, *WALES, EDWARD H., WALKER, BRYANT, WALKER, GUSTAVUS A., WALKER, JOHN B., M.D., WARD, FREEMAN F., M.D., WATSON, MRS. J. HENRY, WATTS, MISS ISABELLE A., WEATHERBEE, MRS. EDWIN H., WEBB, MRS. ALEXANDER S., WEBB, J. GRISWOLD, WEBB, J. LOUIS, WEBB, MRS. VANDERBILT, WEBB, VANDERBILT, WEBB, MRS. WILLIAM SEWARD, WEBSTER, MRS. J. E. BURDICK, WEEKS, DR. JOHN E., WEIGLE, CHARLES H., WELSH, MRS. S. CHARLES, WENTZ, THEODORE, WERTHEIM, MRS. MAURICE, WHITE, MISS CAROLINE, WHITRIDGE,, MISS JOAN, WHITTE MORE, GEORGE W., WHITTE MORE, HOWARD, WILCOX, PROF. ALICE WILSON, WILLCOX, MISS MARY A., WILLCOX, WILLIAM G., WILLIAMS, ALEX. S., WILLIAMS, ARTHUR, WILLIAMS, CLARENCE E., WILLIAMS, DAVID, WILLIAMS, MRS. PERCY H., WILLIAMS, RICHARD H., JR., WILLIAMS, ROGER BUTLER, JR., WILLIAMS, WILLIAM H., *DECEASED WOODMAN, DR. JOHN, WOODWARD, KENNETH N., WOODWARD, MRS. WILLIAM, WOOLEY, SCUDDER J., M.D., YOUNG, MISS ANNETTE INNIS, YOUNG, MRS. A. MURRAY, ZABRISKIE, GEORGE A., ZANETTI, J. ENRIQUE, ZEHNDER, C. H., ZEIMER, MURRY, ZIMMERMAN, A. G., ZINSSER, AUGUST, ZOLLER, CHARLES, Ladies' Auxiliary MRS. HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, Chairman MRS. CLARENCE G. MICHALIS, Chairman of Jr. Auxiliary BAKER, MRS. GEORGE F., JR., CLARK, MRS. J. F. A., CUYLER, MISS ELEANOR DEGRAFF, DANIELS, MRS. LORENZO, FIELD, MRS. MARSHALL, FIELD, MRS. Wм. B. OSGOOD, FINCKE, MRS. REGINALD, FOWLER, MRS. ARTHUR, GRANT, MRS. DE FOREST, HAMILTON, MRS. WM. PIERSON, MCKAY, MRS. R. G., MARTIN, MRS. SHELTON E., MORGAN, MISS ANNE, MORGAN, MRS. PIERPONT, MAYNARD, MRS. WALTER E., *H. S. H. ALBERT. PRINCE OF MONACO. *THE Rr. Hos. LORD ROTHSCHILD, F.R. *DR. PHILIP LOTLEY SCLATER, *Bickmore, PROT. ALBERT S., BLAIR, DR. W. Kein, Baton, Peor. Charles L., Brooks, Dr. Hartow, CALKINS, PRow, GARY N., CHAMPION, Phor. HENRY P., Crandall, Lee S., Davenport, DR. CHARLES B., GREGORY, DR. WILLIAM K., Fellows HUNTINGTON. DR. GEORGE S., LANG. HERBERT. LEE, PROF. FREDERIC S LUCAS, DR. FREDERIC A., MAC CALLUM, DR. GEORGE A., MATTHEW. Dr. W. D., *MAYOR, DR. ALFRED G., MERKEL, HERMANN, W., MORGAN, PROF. THOMAS H., OSBORN, PROF. HENRY FAIRFIELD, OSBURN, DR. RAYMOND C., PORTIELJE, A. F. J., SCHULTE, PROF. H. VON W., SCOTT, DR. GEORGE G., SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON, SHELDON, CHarles, SETH-SMITH, David, STOCKARD, DR. CHARLES R., TOWNSEND, DR. CHARLES H., WILSON, PROF. EDMUND B., The qualifications for this class rest solely upon scientific achievement. CHARTER OF THE New York Zoological Society CHAPTER 435, LAWS OF 1895. AN ACT to incorporate the New York Zoological Society and to provide for the establishment of a zoological garden in the city of New York. As amended by Chapter 146 of the Laws of 1902; and by Chapter 240 of the Laws of 1910. See Chapter 432 of the Laws of 1900. See Chapter of the city of New York, Section 626 of the Laws of 1901. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Charles A. Dana, Oswald Ottendorfer, Andrew H. Green, William H. Webb, Henry H. Cook, Samuel D. Babcock, Charles R. Miller, George G. Haven, J. Hampden Robb, Frederick W. DeVoe, J. Seaver Page, Rush C. Hawkins, David James King, Wager Swayne, Charles A. Peabody, Jr., Charles E. Whitehead, Charles R. Flint, Samuel Parsons, Jr., Mornay Williams, Henry E. Gregory, Isaac W. Maclay, Isaac Rosenwald, Hugh N. Camp, Andrew D. Parker, Cornelius Van Cott, William F. Havemeyer, Frederick Shonnard, William W. Thompson, Alexander Hadden, Edward L. Owen, John H. Starin, Rush S. Huidekoper, William W. Goodrich, Albert H. Gallatin, Frederick S. Church, Edward C. Spitzka, Robert L. Niles, Madison Grant, C. Grant La Farge, William Van Valkenburg, and such other persons as may, under the provisions of its by-laws, become members of the corporation hereby created, are hereby created a body corporate and politic, by and under the name of New York Zoological Society. SEC. 2. Said corporation shall have power to establish, maintain and control zoological parks, gardens, or other collections for the promotion of zoology and kindred subjects, and for the instruction and recreation of the people. Said corporation may collect, hold, and expend funds for zoological research and publication, for the protection of wild animal life, and for kindred purposes, and may promote, form, and co-operate with other associations with similar purposes, and may purchase, sell, or exchange animals, plants, and specimens appropriate to the objects for which it was created. SEC. 3. The managers of said corporation shall have power to make and adopt by-laws for the management and government of its affairs and business, for the admission, suspension, and expulsion of its members, and for the terms and conditions of membership; to prescribe the number and mode of election of its officers; to define their duties; to provide for the safe-keeping of its property, and from time to time to alter and modify its By-laws. SEC. 4. The affairs and business of said corporation shall be managed and controlled by a board of managers, the number of whom shall be prescribed by the by-laws. The first board of managers shall be divided by lot into three classes, equal in number, one of which classes shall hold office for one year, another for two years, and the other for three years; and all persons elected to be managers at any subsequent election shall hold offce for three years, and until others are elected in their stead. There shall be a president, two vice-presidents, treasurer and secretary, to be elected by the board of managers annually, who shall hold office until others are elected in their stead. The first meeting under this act may be held at any time upon a notice of five days, signed by any five of the incorporators named in the first section of this act, fixing a time and place for such meeting, a copy whereof shall be mailed to each of said incorporators at his usual post-office address, and twelve of such incorporators shall be a quorum for the purpose of organization, adoption of by-laws, and election of officers. No manager of said corporation shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract concerning its property or affairs. SEC. 5. Said corporation may raise money by the issue of bonds, secured by a mortgage on any or all of its property not acquired from said city or state. SEC. 6. Said corporation may take, purchase, and hold real and personal estate necessary for the purpose of its incorporation, and shall possess the general powers and be subject to the restrictions and liabilities prescribed in Article II of Chapter 23 of the Consolidated Laws, entitled “General Corporation Law," being chapter 28 of the Laws of 1909. SEC. 7. The commissioners of the sinking fund of the said city are authorized in their discretion to allot, set apart, and appropriate for the use of said corporation, any of the lands belonging to said city north of One Hundred and Fiftyfifth Street, but not in the Central Park, and such appropriation may be revoked if, after the expiration of five years from the passage of the act, a zoological garden is not established thereon; said grounds thus set apart and appropriated shall be used or no purpose whatsoever except those aforesaid. As soon as any lands are set apart the Mayor of the said city of New York, and the President of the Department of Parks of said city, shall become and be ex-officio members of the board of managers of said corporation. If at any time the animals now composing the menagerie of Central Park shall be removed therefrom by the authorities having charge thereof, said authorities may make an arrangement with the incorporators named in this act or the corporation formed by them for leasing or sale of such animals to such incorporators or corporation, and said incorporators or corporation shall have a preference over any other person or corporation in respect thereto upon the same terms which said authorities could make with any such other person or corporation, or upon such other terms as to such authorities may seem proper, but nothing herein provided shall be construed as giving the commissioners of the Department of Public Parks authority to sell, lease, transfer, or in any other wise dispose of said animals or other property connected with or belonging to said menagerie. SEC. 8. Admission to the said gardens shall be free to the public for at least four days, one of which shall be Sunday, in each week, subject to such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by said corporation. SEC. 9. This act shall take effect immediately. AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and thirty-five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act to incorporate the New York Zoological Society and to provide for the establishment of a zoological garden in the City of New York" in relation to real and other property. |