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APPENDIX EOTHER CONSTITUTIONS AND AGREEMENTSI. The Rockefeller FoundationCharter and OrganizationThe Rockefeller Foundation was charteredunder the Jaws ofthe State of New York on May It, 19 Jo, the date on which the Actof Incorporation, passed by the Legislature without oppositionApril 24, 101!}, was approved by the Governor. *The text 01 theCharter follows:-THE ACTTo incorporate The Rockefeller Foundation.The People of the State of Xew York, represented in Senateand Assembly, do enact as follows :SrrHon. /. .John I). Rockefeller, John L).Rockefeller, Junior,I \jderick T. Gates, Harry Pratt Judson, Simon Flexner, Starr J.Murphy, Jerome D. Greene, Wickliffe Rose, and Charles (). JLeydt,together with such persons as they may associate with themselves,and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate bytlie name of The Rockefeller Foundation, for the purpose ofreceiving and maintaining a fund or funds and applying the incomeand principal thereof to promote the well-being of mankindthroughout the world. It shall be within the purposes of saidcorporation to use as means to that end research, publication, theestablishment and maintenance of charitable, benevolent, religious, missionary and public educational activities, agencies andinstitutions, and the aid of any such activities, agencies andinstitutions already established and any other means and agencieswhich from time to time shall seem expedient to its members ortrustees.2. The corporation hereby formed shall have power to takeand hold by bequest, devise, gift, purchase or lease, eitherabsolutely or in trust for any of its purposes, any property, real orpersonal, without limitation as to amount or value, except suchlimitation, if any, as the legislature shall hereafter specificallyimpose; to convey such property and to invest and reinvest anyprincipal, and deal with and expend the income and principal ofthe corporation in such manner as in the judgment of the trustees*(.:hap. iSS, Laws of 1913. For an account of th. efforts to secure incorporation by Act of Congress, see Appendix V, page 1^7.