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 496 Effective dates.

Savings provision.

PUBLIC LAW 88-449-AUG. 19, 1964

[78 STAT.

gj,^, 43 ^g^^ Except as pFovlded in subsection (b) of this section, this Act shall become effective on the first day oi the first month which begins later than the ninetieth day following the date of enactment of this Act. (b) This section and sections 201(g) and 201(h) shall become effective on the date of enactment of this Act. ^^^ ^Q^ j f j^j^y provision of this Act shall be held invalid, the remainder af this Act shall not be affected thereby. Approved August 19, 1964. Public Law 88-449

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P a c i f i c Tropical B o t a n i c a l Garden. Charter.

AN ACT To c h a r t e r by Act of Congress the Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives United States of America in Congress assembled,

of the

CREy^TION OF THE CORPORATION

1. The following persons: Henry Francis duPont, Winterthur, Delaware; Deane Waldo Malott, Ithaca, New York; Horace Marden Albright, Los Angeles, California; Robert Allerton, Kauai, Hawaii; and Paul Bigelow Sears, New Haven, Connecticut; and their successors, are hereby created and declared to be a body corporate by the name of Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden (hereinafter referred to as the "corporation") and by such name shall be known and have perpetual succession and the powers, limitations, and restriction herein contained. SECTION

COMPLETION o r

ORGANIZATION

SEC. 2. The persons named in section 1 shall be the incorporators of the corporation and members of the initial board of trustees and are authorized to complete the organization of the corporation by the selection of other trustees and officers, the adoption of bylaws, not inconsistent with this Act, and the doing of such other acts necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Act. OBJECTS A N D PURPOSES OF CORPORATION

SEC. 3. The objects and purposes of the corporation shall be— (a) to establish, develop, operate, and maintain for the benefit of the people of the United States an educational and scientific center m the form of a tropical botanical garden or gardens, together with such facilities as libraries, herbaria, laboratories, and museums which are appropriate and necessary for encouraging and conducting research in basic and applied tropical botany; (b) to foster and encourage fundamental research with respect to tropical plant life and to encourage research and study of the uses of tropical flora in agriculture, forestry, horticulture, medicine, and other sciences; (c) to disseminate through publications and other media the knowledge acquired at the gardens relative to basic and applied tropical botany; (d) to collect and cultivate tropical flora of every nature and origin and to preserve for the people of the United States species of tropical plant life threatened with extinction;

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