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ABRAM ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ANDREW CARNEGIE appoint BILLINGS Board of Trustees Bonds CARNEGIE INSTITUTION CARROLL CARROLL D Chairman CHARLES CHARLES D City of Washington clause Committee consider cooperate D. O. MILLS DANIEL day of January deed of trust desirous to establish District of Columbia EDWARD EDWARD D ELIHU ROOT Ex-Officio THE PRESIDENT existing institutions expenses FOUNDED BY ANDREW FREW funds GAGE gentlemen George Washington Memorial GILMAN HENRY HITCHCOCK hereby HEWITT HIGGINSON HUTCHINSON Illinois insti INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON invest JOHN HAY kindred LYMAN million dollars name of Washington NATIONAL ACADEMY Nineteen Hundred Pennsylvania personally powers and immunities principal sums promote original research promote the objects purposes SEAL SECRETARY securities SETH LOW SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION SPOONER study and research subscribed sums therein contained tion transferred TRUST DEED tution United university in Washington utilizing WALCOTT WAYNE MACVEAGH WEIR MITCHELL WHEREOF WHITE WHITFIELD WILLIAM LINDSAY WILLIAM W worthy of Washington WRIGHT York
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Page 6 - ... they signed, sealed and delivered said instrument as their free and voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth. GIVEN under my hand and Notarial Seal this ________ day of ________ , AD 1953.
Page 5 - Seven or more persons, citizens of the United States, and a majority of whom are citizens of this State, who desire to form a fraternal...
Page 8 - THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES JOHN S.
Page 11 - ... 3. To increase facilities for higher education. 4. To increase the efficiency of the universities and other institutions of learning throughout the country, by utilizing and adding to their existing facilities and aiding teachers in the various institutions for experimental and other work, in these institutions as far as advisable.
Page 6 - STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Los Angeles— SS. On this day of , 1943, before me, , a Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally appeared , .known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that they executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF...
Page 11 - Among its aims are these: (1) To promote original research, paying great attention thereto as one of the most important of all departments; (2) to discover the exceptional man in every department of study, whenever and wherever found, inside or outside of schools...
Page 14 - ... of any other name with his, which is a matter of doubt, still I am very certain nothing else would. A suggestion that this gift of mine, which has its own field, which has nothing to do with the University, except as an aid to one if it is established, which has a field of its own, that is entitled to the great name of Washington, is one which I never for a moment could consider. If the coming university under the control of the Nation — as Washington suggested a national institution — is...
Page 10 - ... to assign or transfer the same, to sue for payment of the principal sums or interest, either in or out of the United Kingdom, to invest the sums which from time to time may be received from the said bonds, on such securities, as they in their discretion may select, and to alter or vary the investments from time to time as they may think proper; all which investments may be taken in the names of the chairman and secretary of the trust and their successors in office for the time being, With power...
Page 14 - I think no one would presume to use that almost sacred name except for a university of the first rank, established by national authority, as he desired. Be it our part in our day and generation to do what we can to extend the boundaries of human knowledge by utilizing existing institutions.
Page 9 - Trustees under the law, and without prejudice to this generality the following powers and immunities, viz. : Power to receive and realize the said Bonds, and the principal sums therein contained and the interest thereof, to grant discharges or receipts therefor, to sell the said Bonds, either by public sale or private bargain, at such prices and on such terms as they may deem reasonable, to assign or transfer the same, to sue for payment of the principal sums or interest, to invest the sums which...