APPENDIX E CHAPTER 85. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TILDEN TRUST, FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A FREE LIBRARY AND READING-ROOM IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Passed March 26, 1887; three-fifths being present. WHEREAS, John Bigelow, Andrew H. Green, and George W. Smith, the executors and trustees of the last will and testament of Samuel J. Tilden, deceased, have, in pursuance of provisions of said will and testament, made application to the Legislature for the enactment of the following act; and, WHEREAS, The said executors and trustees deem it inexpedient to designate any purposes of the corporation herein and hereby created other than the establishment and maintenance of a free library and reading-room in the city of New York, in accordance with the purpose and intention of said testator; therefore The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The said John Bigelow, of Highland Falls, in Orange county, and Andrew H. Green and George W. Smith, of the city of New York, and such other persons as they may associate with themselves, and their successors are hereby created a body corporate and politic under the name and title of the Tilden Trust. SECT. 2. The said John Bigelow, Andrew H. Green, and George W. Smith shall be permanent trustees of such corporation in accordance with the intention of the said will in that behalf. Within ninety days from the passage of this act they shall designate and appoint, in writing, other trustees, so that the number of trustees shall be not less than five. SECT. 3. One-half of the other trustees so designated and appointed shall hold office for the term of one year and the other half thereof for the term of two years. After such designation and appointment shall have been made, every trustee appointed to fill any vacancy in the board of trustees shall hold office for the term of two years. Any vacancy which may at any time occur in said board through death, resignation, incapacity, expiration of term, or otherwise, shall be filled by the remaining trustees. SECT. 4. All the powers of the said corporation shall be vested in the trustees. They shall have the power to appoint a president and vice-president, secretary and treasurer, of whom the secretary and treasurer need not be members of said board. Such officers shall hold their offices upon such tenure, and shall receive such compensation as the by-laws may prescribe. Said trustees shall also have power to appoint such other officers and agents as the proper conduct of the affairs of said corporation shall require, removable at the pleasure of the board, and to fix their compensation. SECT. 5. The said corporation shall have, in addition to the powers now conferred by law upon all corporations as such, the capacity and power to establish and maintain a free library and reading room in the city of New York, and for these purposes it shall have power to demand, recover, accept, and receive all such money and other property, real or personal, as is given to it by virtue of the will of Samuel J. Tilden, or shall be conveyed or transferred to, or in any manner bestowed upon, it by the aforesaid executors and trustees by virtue of the powers therein conferred upon them; and the said corporation shall have power to hold, manage, improve, dispose of, and convey all property at any time received or acquired by it in such manner as may be best calculated to carry out its objects and purposes. SECT. 6. The said corporation shall accept and receive all such money or other property as is given to it by the said will of Samuel J. Tilden, or shall be conveyed or transferred to, or in any manner bestowed upon, it as aforesaid by the aforesaid executors and trustees, subject to the terms and conditions expressed in and imposed by the said will of Samuel J. Tilden, in respect to the gift or gifts therein and thereby made or provided for, to a corporation to be formed and to be known as the Tilder. Trust, and the said corporation shall have power to make and enter into any obligation or obligations to secure due compliance with such terms and conditions. SECT. 7. The said corporation shall possess the powers and, except as may be otherwise provided by this act, be subject to the provisions, liabilities, and restrictions contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, but nothing herein contained shall affect the rights of any parties to any action now pending or of any heir-atlaw of said Samuel J. Tilden, deceased. SECT. 8. This act shall take effect immediately. INDEX ABBOTT, Josiah Gardiner, address of "ARGUS," Albany, Edwin Croswell, edi- BANCROFT, George, letter to, I., 115. BAR Association of New York formed, "recog- BARLOW, Gen. Francis C., interview BARNUM, Scnator, inquiry for news at BLAINE, James G., surprised that the BLANC, Louis, dines with Tilden; his BLATCHFORD, Judge, II., 229. BOLINGBROKE quoted, I., 16. BRADLEY, Judge, sustains the validity of Jacob Sharp's BROWN, Judge, declares the Tilden BRYANT, William Cullen, I., 98; enter- BURDELL, Dr. Harvey, murder of, I., BUTLER, William Allen, on the expos- ure of the Tweed ring, I., 207; ap- CAHILL, John, a clerk of Mr. Tilden, CALHOUN, John C., leader of the Nulli- CAMBRELING, C. C., I., 114. CAMPBELL, Hon. John, urges renomi- CANALS, Tilden opposes the enlarge- CARTER, James C., about Tilden, I., 148; CASS, Lewis, nominated for the presi- CASSANAVE, G., member of Louisiana CHANDLER, Zachariah, visited at Fifth- takes charge" of Florida, 17. CIPHER despatches, II., 170; Tilden's CIVIL service, first practical example CLAY, Henry, introduces the compromise CLEVELAND, Grover, nominated for "COLUMBIA Sentinel," Tilden on the pro- from the Electoral Commission, II., CONNOLLY, the comptroller, resigns, I., CONSTITUTIONAL convention of 1815, 295; convention, national, at St. Louis COOPER, Peter, vote of a Louisiana CUMBERLAND Coal Co., Tilden's argu- CURTIS, George William, abandons the DAVIS, J. Bancroft, I., 147. DAVIS, Judge, reckoned upon as DICKENS, Charles, II., 105. EAST INDIA Company, Elisha Yale, Governor of, I., 8. EATON, Ann, grandmother of Elisha EATON, Theophilus, Deputy Governor of Tilden's view of, 79; Watterson's ELECTORAL Vote, the mode of counting ELLIS, John W., II., 220, 222. |