TIT. 6. A. A. 1801. 2 Faust 406. Corporate powers and capacities. Stated and other meet ings of the trustees. thereafter, the legislature to nominate thirteen trustees, tó succeed the said thirteen persons above named, one body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name of "The Trustees of the South-Carolina College ;" and that by the said name they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession, and be able and capable in law, to have, receive, and enjoy, to them and their successors, lands, tenements and hereditaments, of any kind or value, in fee, or for life or years, and personal property of any kind whatsoever; and also all sums of money of any amount whatsoever, which may be granted or bequeathed to them for the purpose of building, erecting, endowing and supporting the said college in the town of Columbia. 34. And be it enacted, That there shall be a stated meeting of the said trustees, on the * in each year, during the session of the legislature; and that the president of the said college, and four of the said trustees, shall have full power to call occasional meetings of the board whenever it shall appear to them necessary; and that at all stated meetings, the president of the board of trustees aforesaid, and ten of the trustees, shall be the number to constitute a quorum, and to fill up, by ballot, any vacancies that may occur in the said trustees, except those who are hereby declared to be trustees ex-officio; and the president and six of the other trustees, shall be the number to constitute an occasional Powers of the meeting; and the said trustees, or a quorum of them, being trustees when regularly convened, shall be capable of doing or transacting regularly con- all the business and concerns of the said college; but more vened. Style and power of the head of the college, and the masters thereof. particularly of electing all the customary and necessary officers of the said institution, of fixing their several salaries, of removing any of them for neglect or misconduct in office, of prescribing the course of studies to be pursued by the students; and in general, of framing and enacting all such ordinances and by-laws as shall appear to them necessary for the good government of the said college: Provided the same be not repugnant to the laws of this state nor of the United States. 35. And be it enacted, That the head of the said college shall be styled "The President ;" and the masters thereof shall be styled "The Professors;" but professors, while they remain such, shall never be capable of holding the office of trustee; and the president and professors, or a majority of them, shall be styled "The Faculty of the College," which faculty shall have the power of enforcing the ordinances and by-laws adopted by the trustees for the government of the pupils, by rewarding or censuring them; and finally, by suspending such of them as, after repeated admonitions, shall continue disobedient or refractory, until a determination of a quorum of trustees can be had; but that it shall be only in See A. A. 1811. The stated meetings to be held on the Wednes. day next after the fourth Monday in November of every year. the power of a quorum of trustees at their stated meeting, to TIT. 6. expel any student of the said college. 36. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the said college A. A. 1801. shall and may have a common seal for the business of them- 2 Faust 408, selves and their successors, with liberty to change or alter Corporate the same from time to time, as they shall think proper; and powers and capacities of that, by their aforesaid name, they and their successors shall the trustees. and may be able to implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all courts of law within this state; and to grant, bargain, sell, or assign, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods or chattels; and to act and do all things whatsoever, for the benefit of the said college, in as ample a manner as any person or body politic or corporate can or may by law. 37. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the said col- Authorized to lege are hereby authorized and empowered to draw out of the draw on the treasury of this state, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be public treas appropriated to the purpose of erecting a building of brick or sury, &c. stone, and covered with tile or slate, suitable to the accommodation of the students of the said college, and suitable for fully carrying on the education of the said students, and for the erection of such other buildings as may be necessary for the use of the said college; and that the comptroller be authorized and empowered, upon application of the said trustees, to pay over to said trustees, the sum of six thousand dollars yearly and every year, to be appropriated to the purpose of paying the salaries of the faculty of the said college, and for the further support of the same; and that the trustees of the said college shall be accountable for the proper appropriation of the said monies, to the comptroller, who shall report thereon annually to the legislature. 38. And be it enacted, That this act shall be deemed a pub- This act a lic act, and as such shall be judicially taken notice of, with- public act. out special pleading, in all the courts of law and equity within this state. 39. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees, with Trustees to the concurrence of the commissioners of Columbia, shall be take a square empowered to make choice of any square or squares, yet unor squares in sold in the town of Columbia, for the purpose of erecting said Columbia. college, and the buildings attached thereto, having strict reference to every advantage and convenience necessary for such institution. 40. Whereas, The board of trustees of the College of South- A. A. 1802. Carolina, in locating the spot which appeared to them the most 2 Faust 475. proper for the site of the above mentioned college, have disco- The Southvered that parts of the squares comprised therein have been legesold to private persons, who are willing to relinquish their purchases: Carolina Col 41. Be it therefore enacted, That upon the several persons Certain lands herein after mentioned, who have purchased lots or squares in to be conveythe town of Columbia, or their legal representatives, producing ed to the trus to the commissioners for disposing of the public land in the tees of. town aforesaid, certificates from the board of trustees of the college aforesaid, that they have executed to them full and TIT. 6. A. A. 1802. sufficient conveyances, in fee simple, of the squares and lots herein after particularly described, the commissioners aforesaid are hereby authorized and directed to cancel the follow2 Faust 476. ing bonds, to wit: the bond of George Wade, for the purchase of two acres, making part of the square bounded by Richardson, Divine, Sumter and Green-streets; also the bond of William Cunnington, for the purchase of the square bounded by Sumter, Green, Marion and Medium-streets; also the hond of Thomas Rhett Smith, for the purchase of the square bounded by Sumter, Blossom, Marion and Divine-streets; also the bond of Ezekiel Pickens, for the purchase of the square bounded by Marion, Divine, Bull and Green-streets; and also the bond of Bartlee Smyth, for the purchase of the square bounded by Marion, Green, Bull and Medium-streets. A. A. 1803. 2 Faust 514. The South 42. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid shall be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to convey to the trustees aforesaid, in fee simple, the square bounded by Sumter, Divine, Marion, and Green-streets, in the town aforesaid; also the square bounded by Marion, Blossom, Bull and Divine-streets; and the half square, adjoining Wade's purchase, bounded by Richardson, Divine, Sumter and Green-streets, as aforesaid. 43. And be it further enacted, That the trustees aforesaid shall be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to stop up and inclose all or any part of Green, Marion or Divine-streets, which are included within, and bounded by Bull, Blossom, Sumter and Medium-streets. 44. And be it further enacted, That until the salaries of the faculty of the said college shall commence, the comptroller be authorized and empowered, upon application of the said trustees, to pay to them or their order, towards purchasing a philosophical and mathematical apparatus and library for the said college the annual sum appropriated by law for such college. 45. Be it enacted, That if at any stated or other meeting, to be held by the trustees of the South-Carolina College, any less number than a quorum, as established by the said act, shall Carolina Col- attend, the members so attending shall have power to appoint legeWhat number a chairman, and to meet and adjourn, from time to time, as of trustees at the majority shall think fit, any meeting 46. And be it further enacted, That if at any stated or other may appoint a meeting of the said board, the president shall not attend, it chairman and shall and may be lawful for the number of eleven at a stated adjourn, or clect a presi- meeting, or the number of seven at an occasional meeting, to elect a president pro tempore; and the meeting so constituted, shall be vested with all the powers which an occasional or stated meeting may respectively exercise; any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding. dent pro tem. &c. Certain lands to be convey éd to the trustees, &c. 47. And whereas, sundry persons, proprietors of those two squares of land, situate upon and circumscribed by Medium and Pendleton, Sumter and Bull-streets, have signified their assent to relinquish to the said trustees, their right and interest in the said two squares, upon being compensated by an exchange of other lands, or otherwise: 48. Be it further enacted, That the commissioners of the town of Columbia shall convey and assure to the said trus TIT. 6. tees, the said two squares of land, or so much thereof as the A. A. 1803. purchasers shall voluntarily relinquish ; and shall make such 2 Faust 515. compensation to the said purchasers, by exchange or otherwise, as shall be agreed upon by and between them and the said purchasers; and that it shall be lawful for the said trustees to enclose the said two squares, with the squares lying next to the southward thereof, in one enclosure, notwithstanding the intervening streets. 49. Whereas, it has been recently discovered that there ex- A. A. 1805. ists a variance between the enrolled act, entitled, "An act to The South establish a college at Columbia," of record in the office of the Carolina Col-, secretary of state, and the printed copy thereof, promulgated lege. by authority of the state for the information of the public, by reason whereof, divers persons named in said printed copy, but who are not mentioned in the original act, were required to act as trustees of said college, and did accordingly interfere and act as such: 50. Be it therefore enacted, That all and every act hereto- Former pro. fore done, assented to or concurred in, by each and every per- ceedings of son named as trustees in the printed copy of the act, entitled, the trustees “An act to establish a college at Columbia," passed the nine- confirmed. teenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, from the promulgation thereof until the passing of this act, which would have been legal and valid, had the said persons been named or appointed trustees in and by the enrolled act aforesaid, shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be ratified and confirmed, and held to be as firm and effectual in law, in as full and ample a manner as if their several and respective names had been inserted in said act. 51. And be it further enacted, That the associate judges Associate of the court of common pleas for the time being, shall be, and judges made they are hereby declared ex-officio to be trustees of the said trustees. college. 52. And be it enacted, That the said college shall have full College may and ample power to confer degrees on students or such other confer depersons as may be deemed qualified to receive the same. 53. And be it enacted, That such part of the said act as directs a nomination of trustees by the legislature, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that in cases in which heretofore the legislature might have nominated trustees, that the grees. same shall be elected by a joint ballot of both branches of the Trustees to legislature, and that the persons having the highest number of be elected by votes on such ballot, shall be and are hereby declared to be joint ballot. trustees of the said college. 54. Whereas, the trustees of the South-Carolina College, A. A. 1811. have, by their memorial, represented to the legislature, that The Souththe establishment of a professorship of chemistry in said col- Carolina Col lege, would be of great utility to the state, by widening the lege. circle of knowledge, and diffusing useful information throughout the same, and have solicited the legislature in aid thereof: TIT. 6. A. A. 1811. 55. Be it therefore enacted, That in addition to the sums already appropriated by law, for the support of the faculty of the said college, the comptroller be, and hereby is authorized and empowered, upon application of the said trustees, to pay over to them the sum of sixteen hundred dollars yearly, and every propriated for year, to be applied to the purpose of paying the salary of a the support of professor of chemistry in said college. sum of 1600 dollars ap a professor of chemistry. The times for the stated meetings of the board of trustees, fixed. Vacant offices in the college may be filled pro tem. at an Occasional meeting. 56. Be it enacted, That in future the stated meeting of the board of trustees of the South-Carolina College, shall be held and meet on the Wednesday next after the fourth Monday in November in each year, instead of the time heretofore established by law, for the stated meeting of the said board. 57. And be it further enacted, That no vacancy in the officers of the college shall be filled, unless at the stated meeting of the board of trustees: Provided nevertheless, That such vacancy may be filled at any occasional meeting, until the stated meeting of the board of trustees, and no longer. 58. And be it further enacted, That from and after the pasThe faculty sing of this act, the faculty shall be, and they are hereby reof the college quired to report the whole of their proceedings against any enjoined to report the whole student who shall be suspended, together with the cause of such suspension, to the board of trustees, at their next stated meeting after such suspension, and the said board of trustees are hereby authorized and empowered, upon a review of the sentence of any student, to restore such student to his stanpended, &c. ding in the college, if it shall appear to the said board of trustees proper to do so. [See Title 1, Academies and Schools, Vol. 3. of their proceedings against any student who shall be sus TITLE 7. Columbia. square, 1. WHEREAS the continuing the seat of government in the city of Charleston is productive of many inconveniencies and great expense to the citizens of this state: For remedy whereof, Be it enacted, That the commissioners herein after directed to be appointed, shall be, and they are hereby authorized and required to lay off a tract of land of two miles near Friday's ferry, on the Congaree river, including the plain of the hill whereon Thomas and James Taylor, esquires, now reside, into lots of half an acre each, and the streets shall be of such dimensions, not less than sixty feet wide, as they shall think convenient and necessary, and with two principal streets running through the centre of the town at right angles of one hundred and fifty feet wide; which said land shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be vested in the said commissioners, and their lawful successors, for the use of this state. |