Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Hubbell Loomis, Benjamin F Edwards, Stephen Griggs, George Smith, Enoch Long, Cyrus Edwards and William Manning and their successors be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate to be styled and known by the name of “The Trustees1 of the Alton College of Illinois,” and by that style and name to remain and have perpetual succession, the said college shall remain located at or near Upper2 Alton in the county of Madison. The number of Trustees shall not exceed fifteen, exclusive of the President, principal or presiding officer of the college, who shall ex officio be a member of the board of trustees; no other instructor shall be a member of the board of Trustees. For the present the above named individuals shall constitute the board of Trustees, who shall fill the remaining vacancies at their discretion.

Sec 2 That Samuel D Lockwood, William C Posey, John P. Wilkinson, Theron Baldwin, John F Brooks, Elisha Jenny, William Kirby[,] Asa

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Turner, John G. Bergen, John Tillson Jr. and Gideon Blackburn and their successors be and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic by the name of “The Trustees of Illinois College” and by that style and name to remain and have perpetual sucession; the college shall remain permanently located in Morgan County. The number of trustees shall not exceed fifteen exclusive of the President, principal or presiding officer of the college; who shall exofficio be a member of the board of trustees, no other instructor shall be a member of the board of Trustees. For the present the aforesaid individuals shall constitute the board of trustees who shall fill the remaining vacancies at their discretion.

Sec 3 That John Dew, Samuel H. Thompson[,] James Riggin, Nicholas Horner, George Lane, Robert Moore, Theophilus M Nichols, Joshua Barnes, Samuel Stites, David L. West, Nathan Horner, Joseph Faulks, Thornton Peoples, John S Barger, Nathaniel M McCurdy, Anthony W. Casad, and Benjamin Hypes, and their successors be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate to be styled and known by the name of “The Trustees of the

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McKendreean College,” and by that style and name to remain and have perpetual succession, the said College shall remain located at or near Lebanon in the County of S^t Clair the number of trustees shall not exceed eighteen exclusive of the President principal or presiding officer of the College, who shall ex officio be a member of the board of trustees. no other instructor shall be a member of the board of trustees. For the present the aforesaid individuals shall constitute the board of Trustees, who shall fill the remaining vacancies at their discretion.3

Sec 4 The object of said corporations shall be the promotion of the general interests of education and to qualify young men to engage in the several employments and professions of society and to discharge honorably and usefully the various duties of life.

Sec 5 The corporate powers hereby bestowed shall be such only as are essential or useful in the attainment of said object, and such as are usually confered on similar bodies corporate (viz) To have perpetual succession, to make contracts to sue and be

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sued, implead and be impleaded, to grant and receive by its corporate name and to do all other acts as natural persons may. To accept, acquire; purchase or sell property real, personal and mixed in all lawful ways, to use, employ, manage and dispose of all such property and all money belonging to said corporation in such manner as shall seem to the trustees best adapted to promote the object aforementioned: to have a common seal and to alter or change the same; to make such bye laws for its regulation as are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or of this state, and to confer on such persons, as may be considered worthy, such academical or honorary degrees as are usually confered by similar institutions.

Sec 6 The trustees of the respective corporations shall have authority from time to time to prescribe and regulate the course of studies to be pursued in said colleges, and in the preparatory departments attached thereto, to fix the rate of tuition, room rent and other college expenses, to appoint instructors

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and such other officers and agents as may be needed in managing the concerns of the institution to define their powers, duties and employments, to fix their compensation, to displace and remove either of the instructors, officers or agents as said trustees shall deem the interest of the said colleges shall require to fill all vacancies among said instructors, officers and agents, to erect necessary buildings, to purchase books and chemical and philosophical apparatus and other suitable means of instruction, to put in operation a system of manual labour for the purpose of lessening the expense of education and promoting the health of the students; to make rules for the general management of the affairs of the College; and for the regulation of the conduct for the students, and to add as the ability of the said corporations shall increase, and the interest of the community shall require additional departments for the study of any or all of the liberal professions: Provided however that nothing herein contained shall authorize the establishment of a theological department in either of said colleges.

Sec 7 If any Trustees shall be chosen president of

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the college, his former place as trustee shall be considered as vacant and his place filled by the remaining trustees. The trustees for the time being shall have power to remove any trustees from his office of trustees for any dishonorable or criminal conduct: Provided that no such removal shall take place without giving to such trustees notice of the charges exhibited against him, and opportunity to defend himself before the board, nor unless that two thirds of the whole member of trustees for the time being shall concur in such removal. The trustees for the time being in order to have perpetual succession shall have power as often as a trustee shall be removed from office, die, resign or remove out of this state, to appoint a resident of this state to fill the vacancy in the board of trustees occasioned by such removal from office death, resignation or removal from the state. A majority of the trustees for the time being shall be a quorum to do business.

Sec 8 The trustees shall faithfully apply all funds by them collected or hereafter collected according to their best judgments in erecting suitable buildings, in supporting the necessary instructors, officers and agents

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in procuring books, maps, charts, Globes, philosophical chemical and other apparatus necessary to aid in the promotions of sound learning in their respective instructions: Provided that in case any donation, devise or bequest shall be made for particular purposes accordant with the objects of the institution, and the trustees shall accept the same. Every such donation devise or bequest shall be applied in conformity with the expressed condition of the donor or devisor: Provided also that lands donated or devised as aforesaid shall be sold or disposed of as required by the eleventh section of this act.

Sec 9 The Treasurers of said Colleges always, and all other agents when required by the Trustees, before entering upon the duties of their appointment, shall give bonds for the security of the corporations, in such penal sum and with such securities as the board of Trustees shall approve. And all process against the said corporations shall be by summons; and the services fo the same shall be by leaving an attested copy with the Treasurer of the College at least thirty days before the return thereof.

Sec 10 The said colleges and their preparatory

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departments shall be open to all denominations of christians and the profession of any particular religious faith shall not be required of those who become students; all persons however may be suspended or expelled from said institutions whose habits are idle or vicious or whose moral character is bad.

Sec 11 The lands tenements and hereditaments to be held in perpetuity in virtue of this act by either of said corporations shall not exceed Six hundred and forty acres. Provided however that if donations, grants, or devises in land shall from time to time be made to either of said corporations over and above said six hundred and forty acres which may be held in perpetuity as aforesaid the same may be received and held by such corporations for the period of three years from the date of eery such donation, grant or devise, at the end of which time if the said lands over and above the said six hundred and forty acres, shall not have been sold by the said corporations, then and in that case, the said land so donated granted or devised shall revert to the donor grantor or the heirs of the devisor of the same.