annually the net proceeds of the rents, income, interest and profits of all the estate in their hands, or derived from said Bulkeley, and the increase thereof, in supporting and maintaining forever in said city a school to be called Bulkeley School, to be always free to all male youth between the ages of twelve and twenty-one years, who shall be resident of and have their homes in said city, and who shall, previous to their admission into said school, pass an examination satisfactory to said corporation, in such branches of learning as said corporation shall from time to time prescribe. SEC. 4. Such school, when established, shall be managed under the supervision and direction of said corporation, and it shall be their duty to prescribe and appoint the branches of learning which are to be taught therein, and to cause the pupils to be instructed in morals, and in the studies so prescribed; and they shall conform to the wish of said testator in not employing any priest or clergyman as a teacher in said school.

SEC. 5. Said corporation shall, from time to time, appoint one of their number to be their chairman, who shall hold his office at the pleasure of the corporation, and whose duty it shall be to call all special meetings of the trustees, and to preside when present at their meetings. He shall have no casting vote, however, but his vote shall be counted with the rest upon all questions.

SEC. 6. Said corporation shall, from time to time, choose a treasurer, either from their own number or otherwise, who shall hold his office at the pleasure of the corporation, and whose duty it shall be to have the colleotion and custody of their funds and other property, under such restrictions and checks, and with such exceptions, as said corporation shall, from time to time, direct; and all deeds, transfers, rules and assignments made or authorized by said corporation, shall be executed and, when needful, acknowledged in the name of said corporation by such treasurer.

SEC. 7. Such treasurer, if not one of the corporation, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall give bonds, with surety, to the satisfaction of said corporation, for the faithful performance of his duties.

SEO. 8. Said corporation shall cause a record of all their acts and votes to be made by a secretary, to be by them, from time to time, appointed from their own number, who shall hold his office at the pleasure of the corporation, shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his trust, and a certificate of the administration of such oath shall be entered in the records of the corporation, over the signature of the authority administering the oath.

SEC. 9. Whenever all the trustees, at any time constituting said corporation, shall be together, they shall be capable of exercising their corporate powers as though duly met upon notice.

SEC. 10. A regular meeting of said corporation shall be holden on the second Monday in the months of January, April, July and October, annually, at such hour and place as the said corporation in their by-laws shall from time to time designate, of which meeting no notice need be given to the members. Notice of all special meetings, called by the chairman, shall be given by advertising the same, over the signature of the chairman, in some newspaper published in said city, at least three days before the same are to be holden.

SEC. 11. A majority of all the members at any time constituting such corporation, shall be necessary to form a quorum for business at any meet

ing thereof, and must concur in every act thereof, except an adjournment, to give the same validity.

SEC. 12. All the trusts and rights legally conferred in said will upon the trustees named therein, are hereby conferred upon and vested in the said corporation, to be exercised as in this act provided.

SEC. 13. Said corporation may receive, hold and manage any gift, grant, devise, bequest and trust, which may be hereafter made to them for the use, improvement and benefit of said school, in the same mode and under the same regulations as are in this act provided for the estate given by the said Bulkeley.

SEC. 14. Said corporation shall annually, in the month of January, publish in a newspaper printed in said city, a statement of the amount of their property, and the mode in which the same is invested, which statement shall be signed by their treasurer.

SEC. 15. The property of said corporation shall be exempt from taxation.

SEC. 16. Whenever any of the trustees so by name incorporated in this act, or their successors, as hereinafter provided for, shall die, resign, or become incapacitated to act, the surviving or remaining trustees shall, by a writing in the records of said corporation, over their signatures, or those of a majority of their number, appoint some other fit person or persons to be trustee or trustees in the place and stead, and to be clothed with all the powers and duties of those so dying, resigning, or becoming incapacitated. Such incapacity shall be ascertained and determined by the decision of the superior court in the county of New London, or of any judge of the supreme court of errors, in vacation, upon an application made to such court or judge, stating such incapacity and its nature, either by said corporation or the mayor of said city, such notice being given of such application and the hearing to be had thereon, as any judge of said court shall previously direct, and such further notice as the tribunal to which the application shall be brought may in any case deem it proper to order. SEC. 17. The first meeting of said corporation shall be called by Nathan Belcher, aboye named, by a notice thereof and of the time and place of holding the same, published in a newspaper printed in said city. SEC. 18. This act may at any time be amended, altered or repealed by the general assembly.

INCORPORATING "THE TRUSTEES OF THE CONNECTICUT FEMALE INSTITUTE.”

PASSED 1840.

Resolve, Incorporating the Trustees of the Connecticut Female Institute, to be situated in Ellington.

SEC. 1. Resolved, That Joel Hawes, Zalmon Storrs, Ansel Nash, John H. Brockway, Alvan Bond, Samuel Spring and Amos M. Collins, with all others who are, or who shall hereafter become associated with

them, be, and they hereby are, with their successors, made and established a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Trustees of the Connecticut Female Institute, to be situated in Ellington, in the county of Tolland, in this state, for the purpose of promoting the education of females; and by that name they and their successors shall be, and hereby are empowed to purchase, hold and possess, to them and their successors, any goods, chattels and effects, also to purchase, hold and possess any such lands, tenements or hereditaments as shall be necessary or convenient for the views and purposes of said corporation, and the same to sell and dispose of at pleasure, provided, however, that the total amount of such property, both real and personal, shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars; and said corporation may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of record or elsewhere, and may have a common seal, and may alter the same at pleasure.

SEC. 2. The trustees shall annually appoint one of their number to be president of the board, and shall annually appoint a secretary and treasurer. It shall be the duty of the president to preside in all meetings of the trustees, when he shall be present; and in his absence, such person shall preside as the majority of those present shall appoint. It shall be the duty of the secretary to record all the acts and doings of the trustees at their lawful meetings, and such other matters as the by-laws of the corporation shall direct; and in his absence, the board may appoint some one to serve in his place. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to take charge of all the money put into his hands, and pay over the same as he shall be ordered by the trustees, or be otherwise legally directed, and he shall give his bond, with sufficient surety, for the faithful discharge of his trust, whenever requested so to do by the trustees, in such manner as shall be prescribed by the general or special regulations of the board.

SEC. 3. The whole number of trustees shall not exceed twelve, nor shall it be less than nine, any seven of whom, when legally convened, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time. The trustees shall have power to supply any vacancy which may occur in their number by death, resignation or otherwise, at the next annual meeting, or at a meeting specially appointed for that purpose by the president; and every trustee so elected, must be a citizen of this state, or of the United States. Any vacancy among the officers of the board, may be supplied at any regular meeting. The trustees shall be empowered to make and establish bylaws, rules and regulations for the proper management of the affairs of the Institute, and to alter and repeal the same, provided always, that such by-laws, rules and regulations, are not inconsistent with the laws of this state or of the United States; and with the same proviso, they shall have full power to manage all the concerns of the said Institute, whether educational or pecuniary.

SEC. 4. The by-laws of the corporation shall fix the time of holding the annual and other meetings of the board of trustees, and the manner of notifying the same. Should it so happen, that a regular meeting for the choice of any officer should fail, or an election be otherwise prevented, the officer of the preceding year shall continue to serve until a new one shall be regularly chosen in his place. The trustees shall be empowered to appoint, from time to time, not more than five, nor fewer than

three of their number, to be a prudential committee, for managing such affairs of the Institute as may require attention in the intervals between the ordinary meetings of the board; the duties of which committee shall be prescribed in the by-laws.

SEC. 5. All the estate, both real and personal, which may become the property or funds of the corporation, shall be exempt from taxation, so long as the same shall be used for the purposes of education; and for all debts which may at any time be due from said corporation, the trustees shall not be liable in their private capacity, but the property and estate of the said corporation only.

SEC. 6. Joel Hawes is hereby empowered to appoint a day for the first meeting of the trustees herein named, which meeting shall be held in Ellington, on some day in May or June of the present year, notice whereof shall be given by him, to each of his associates, either personally, or by a letter directed by him to each one aforesaid, and placed in the post office at Hartford, at least six days previous to said day of meeting. A majority of the trustees, when so convened, shall constitute the first meeting of the board, and shall be empowered to elect a president, secretary and treasurer, who shall hold their offices till others shall be chosen in their stead, at the first succeeding annual meeting. When thus organized, said board may proceed to elect other trustees to the number authorized in this charter, to make by-laws, and to transact any other business proper for a regular meeting of the board.

SEC. 7. This grant may be altered, amended or repealed at the pleasure of the general assembly.

CONFIRMING THE CHARTER OF THE CONNECTICUT LITERARY INSTITUTION, AND LEGALIZING CERTAIN ACTS.

PASSED 1887.

WHEREAS, at the general assembly holden at Hartford in May, 1835, Gustavus F. Davis and others were incorporated by the name of the Connecticut Literary Institution, for certain purposes in the act of incorporation, namely: in and by which act of incorporation, it was provided that the management and oversight of said institution should be vested in a board of trustees, to be chosen triennially by the Connecticut Baptist Education Society; and that the officers of said institution. should be chosen in the month of June then next,-and whereas, through a misapprehension of the provisions of said act of incorporation, no board of trustees were chosen according to the provisions thereof; but the board of trustees then existing, have continued to exercise all the powers conferred by said act,-and whereas doubts have now arisen whether through the omission to choose the trustees in the manner aforesaid, said corporation be not dissolved; and whether the acts of said corporation and of the board of trustees, be not by reason of said omission, invalid-therefore,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened, That all the acts of said corporation, of the existing board of trustees, and other officers in fact, be, and the same are hereby ratified, established, and confirmed in as full and ample a manner, and to the same extent as though said board of trustees had been duly chosen; and said corporation is hereby established and continued, with all the powers conferred by said act of incorporation, and a board of trustees may be chosen in the month of June, 1838, in the manner pointed out by the 4th section of said act, until which time, the existing board of trustees and the officers of said institution may continue in office, and exercise the powers conferred by said act of incorporation.

AMENDING CHARTER OF THE CONNECTICUT LITERARY INSTITUTION.

PASSED 1855.

Resolved, That the act incorporating the Connecticut Literary Institution be so amended as that said corporation shall be allowed to hold real and personal estate to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and that the real estate of said corporation to the extent of forty thousand dollars shall be exempt from taxation, so long as the same shall be used and the avails thereof expended solely for the purposes of education. This act may be amended, altered or repealed by the general assembly, and no act of acceptance shall be necessary on the part of said Connecticut Literary Institution of this amendment to their charter.

INCORPORATING "THE GUILFORD INSTITUTE.”

PASSED 1855.

Upon the petition of E. Edwin Hall and others, trustees of the Guilford Institute, praying for a special act of incorporation, for reasons set forth in their petition on file, dated May 29th, 1855:

Resolved by this Assembly, That E. Edwin Hall, Henry W. Chittenden, Simeon B. Chittenden, Alvan Talcott, Abraham C. Baldwin, Ralph D. Smith and Sherman Graves, trustees of the Guilford Institute, and their successors, be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Guilford Institute," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and so be capable to possess and hold the property conveyed to them by Sarah Griffing and others; and also be capable in law to purchase, receive by gift, devise or otherwise, and to hold and convey all kinds of property suitable, requisite and convenient for the