stockholders.

and shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock owned by him upon which all installments due are paid. Every stockholder owning two or more shares shall be enti- Pupils sent by tled to send one pupil to said school for every two shares of stock he may hold, and whenever the finances of the institution will permit, the said trustees are authorized annually to make a deduction, not to exceed fifty per cent. of the established tuition, in favor of the said stockholder who may send one or more pupils to said school. The stockholders shall also be entitled to such dividends as the trustees may, from time to time, declare.

partment.

§ 8. There shall be a separate preparatory department, Preparatory dein which the common branches shall be taught; also, a separate classical and scientific department-all to be under the charge and government of the president.

9. The board of trustees shall have power to make all needful by-laws for their own government, and shall provide by-laws for the government of all the departments of the school.

10. All the property, real and personal, of this corporation shall be and forever remain free from taxation.

§ 11. That an amount of the state taxes, for the year Taxation in supA. D. 1860, equal to the amount collected from the real and port of college. personal property in township 16 south of range 4 east of the third principal meridian, is hereby set apart for the purpose of erecting the main building of said college; and the collector of Massac county shall pay over the said amount to the treasurer of said board, on order of the president of said board, together with the affidavit of said treasurer and president that the said amount of taxes, when paid over, shall be faithfully devoted to the purpose of building said college and to no other purpose, and that no member of said board shall receive any part thereof as compensation or otherwise.

§ 12. This act shall be a public act and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 22, 1861.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the North-Western In force February

University."

16, 1861.

by M. E. church

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Trustees elected annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which now are or may hereafter be authorized to elect or appoint trustees of said university, shall hereafter elect only two trustees each, who shall also be and perform the duties of the visitors to said institution, and the place of the two

Consolidation.

trustees last appointed by each conference is hereby vacated. The trustees elected by such conference shall hereafter hold their office for two years, and until their successors are chosen-the term of one elected by each of them expiring annually. In case any conferences, having authority to elect trustees, shall now or hereafter be divided into two or more annual conferences, they shall each have authority to elect trustees. On the request of the board of trustees, made at a regular meeting, any such annual conference may elect trustees as herein provided.

§ 2. Any annual conference, electing trustees as herein provided, having at any time refused to elect successors thereto, or resolved to discontinue or refuse its patronage to said institution, shall authorize the board of trustees, by vote of a majority thereof at any regular meeting, to declare vacant the place of all trustees appointed by such conference, and its right to appoint trustees shall thereupon cease.

§ 3. Any chartered institution of learning may become a department of this university by agreement between the boards of trustees of the two institutions.

4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 16, 1861.

In force February 22, 1861.

AN ACT to incorporate the Presbyterian College of Illinois.

WHEREAS the synods of Illinois and Chicago of the Presbyterian church in ecclesiastical connection with the General assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America, known as the Old School, have determined and are desirous to establish, with such other synods as may associate with them, a university in the state of Illinois, of the first order of literary instructions, under a constitution for its government, to be adopted by them, and have jointly appointed a board of directors, with a view to its organization and endowment; therefore, to enable the said synods to carry such their design into effect,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all such persons as now compose the board of directors, appointed by the said synods, at their respective meetings, in October, 1860, their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created and declared to be a body politic and corporate, in law and in fact, and shall have perpetual succession, by the Corporate name, name and style of "The Presbyterian College of Illinois." Corporate pow- § 2. The board of directors of said college shall be composed of such members of directors, to be chosen at the time

ers.

or times, and in the manner, and shall hold their offices for the term or terms, as may be fixed and prescribed in the constitution to be adopted by said synods, and the by-laws and regulations adopted under it. And the said board shall have power to meet at the time or times and exercise such powers and authority as may be fixed and conferred upon them by the said constitution and by-laws; and said synods are hereby authorized and empowered to confer such power, jurisdiction and authority upon the said board of directors, as to them may seem expedient, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the state or United States; all which authority, power and jurisdiction, when so conferred, is hereby declared to be vested in the said board, and such other faculties, persons, servants, agents and employees as may be provided therein, to all intents and purposes, as fully and completely as if the same were enumerated in this act.

and conduct of busi

§3. The said board of directors, under the said consti- Regulation tution and by-laws, shall have power to superintend and ness. govern the said university or college; to create different departments in addition to the usual collegiate departments, and prescribe courses of study, and maintain discipline and government in each; to elect and appoint such officers, professors, instructors, agents, and others, as may be deemed necessary, and as are provided for in the said constitution and by-laws aforesaid; and the said board may, by itself or the faculty of the college, as may be so provided in the constitution and by-laws, grant to students in either of its de- Confirming of departments, or others, diplomas or honorary testimonials, and grees. may confer such literary honors and degrees as are usually conferred by the highest literary institutions and colleges in the United States, with like and the usual immunities and privileges allowed by usage or statutes to like diplomas, honorary degrees.

possession

4. The said corporation may acquire, take, hold, sell Purchase and convey, any kind of property, real, personal or mixed, property. or choses, rights and interests, that may be bestowed upon it by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise, howsoever; and the same may be under such power, management and control as may be provided in said constitution and by-laws; or in case no provision be made therein, the board of directors shall have full power and control thereof, in all respects whatsoever, consistent with the true intent and meaning of this act and the object contemplated therein. No gift, Gifts grant, devise, made to the college, for a particular purpose, shall be applied to any other purpose; and all such gifts, grants, bequests or devises, and all the powers granted or conferred in this act or the constitution and by-laws aforesaid, shall be liberally construed, in all courts and by all persons, to effectuate the objects of this act; and this act shall be noticed as a public act. No misnomer or mistake in any deed, will or contract shall prejudice the rights or

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and

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of

interests of the college; but the true intent and meaning
thereof shall prevail in favor of the college. The board of
directors shall have power to borrow money, and execute
notes, mortgages and deeds of trust, to erect all needful
buildings, ornament the college grounds, acquire libraries
and apparatus, and, in general, may do whatsoever shall
be necessary to acquire the means, establish and maintain
a college, of the first order of literary institution, at such
point as may be selected for that purpose.

This act to take effect from its passage.
APPROVED February 22, 1861.

In force February AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Presbyterian 21, 1861. Theological Seminary of the Northwest," approved February 16th, 1857.

satisfied.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Transfer, &c., transfer of the government of the said seminary by the said synods, in the act of incorporation mentioned, to the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States, and the amendments made by the general assembly to the constitution of said seminary, and the appointment of the board of directors and of the board of trustees, and all other by-laws, rules and regulations, and other acts and doings by the said boards of directors and trustees, be and the Corporate pow- same are hereby satisfied and confirmed. The said general assembly shall have and may exercise all the powers now or hereafter conferred upon it by the constitution, as amended, or as it may hereafter be amended by said general assembly; and all such amendments, by-laws, rules and regulations, now or hereafter adopted, not repugnant to the laws of the land, shall have full force and effect.

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§ 2. This act and the act to which it is an amendment shall be public acts; and, judicially noticed, shall be liberally construed; and all proceedings of the corporation, certified, under its seal, shall be received as evidence in all courts; and shall take effect from its passage.

APPROVED February 21, 1861.

In force February 21, 1861.

AN ACT to incorporate the Urbana and Champaign Institute.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That B. F. Harris, Wm. Park, J. T. Everett, John Jusley, J. S. Wright, John Penfield, J. W. Sim, Jr., C. F. Columbia and Henry

Nelson, and such other persons as are or may hereafter be associated with them and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The Urbana and Corporate name. Champaign Institute," for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a seminary of learning, comprehending an agricultural, or other departments, as the public may demand, situated between the cities of Urbana and Cham- Location. paign, in the county of Champaign, and state of Illinois, for males and females, with power to sue and be sued; to take and to hold real estate and other property, by purchase, gift, grant, devise or otherwise; to lease, convey and dispose of the same, for the effecting and furtherance of the purposes aforesaid, with power to confer degrees and give diplomas, such as are common in such institutions; and to

use a common seal.

§ 2. The estate, property and financial concerns of said Board of trustees. corporation shall be managed and transacted by a board of nine trustees, to be elected by the stockholders hereinafter mentioned.

§3. The persons named in the first section of this act shall constitute the first board of trustees, and shall be divided, by lot, into three classes. The time of service of the first class shall expire on the last Tusday in June, A. D. 1862, and that of the second class in one and that of the third class in two years thereafter.

§ 4. There shall be a board of visitors, who shall, jointly, Board of visitors. with the trustees, appoint the teachers and officers, arrange the course of instruction, and determine the general manner of conducting said institution. Said board of visitors shall be constituted as follows, to-wit: The governor, secretary of state and superintendent of public instruction of the state of Illinois, the president of the state agricultural and horticultural societies, and such visitors from each of any organized religious denomination within the limits of the congregational [congressional] district in which the said institution is located, as may be appointed by their conference, synod, association, or convention: Provided, that no more than three visitors shall be appointed by the same denomination.

election

$5. On the last Wednesday of June, 1862, and on the Annual same day of each year thereafter, there shall be an election of trustees. of three trustees, who shall hold their office for three years. All vacancies in the board of trustees, then existing, shall also be filled. Such election shall be by ballot, and by a majority of stockholders present.

6. The real estate in the seminary plat, as now laid Capital stock. out into lots and recorded in the recorder's office of Champaign county, and state of Illinois, shall represent the capital stock of said corporation. Said capital stock may be increased to two hundred thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each.