The University of the State of New York Education Department. Provisional Charter of Capital District Library Council for Reference and Research Resources. This instrument witnesseth That the Board of Regents for and on behalf of the Education Department of the State of New York has granted this provisional charter valid for a term of 5 years, 1. Incorporating Alice T. Hastings, Irving A. Verschoor, Edgar Tompkins, Albert Hessberg, II, Florence E. Harshe, Gladys M. Brownell, Edward A. Chapman, Kathryn Parke, Edwin K. Tolan, J. Eloise Givins, and Francis Bergan, and their associates and successors as an educational corporation under the corporate name of Capital District Library Council for Reference and Research Resources, comprising the counties of Albany, Fulton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren, Washington, and such other adjacent areas as may desire to participate, State of New York. 2. The purpose for which such corporation is formed is to promote and facilitate utilization of existing resources, and develop additional resources. 3. The persons named as incorporators shall constitute the first board of trustees, whose number shall be not less than 9, nor more than 12. The board shall have power to adopt bylaws, including therein provisions fixing the method of election and the term of office of trustees. 4. Such provisional charter will be made absolute if, within 5 years, the corporation shall acquire resources and equipment available for its use and support and sufficient and suitable for its chartered purposes in the judgment of the Regents of the University, and be maintaining an institution of educational usefulness and character satisfactory to them. Prior to the expiration of said 5-year period, an application for the renewal of such provisional charter or for an absolute charter will be entertained by the Regents but, in the event that such application is not made, then at the expiration of said term of 5 years such provisional charter shall terminate and become void and shall be surrendered to the Regents. Granted June 24, 1966, by the Board of Regents for and on behalf of the State Education Department, executed under the seal of said Department and recorded therein. Number 9189. Edgar W. Couper, Chancellor. James E. Allen. Jr. President of the University and Commissioner of Education. [seal] The University of the State of New York. The State Department of Education 1784.
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