Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That William T. Major, John F. Henry, James Allen, James Miller, John W. S. Moore, Jesse W. Fell, and Benjamin Depew, 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 Bloomington Female Seminary of Learning,” and by that name to remain and have perpetual succession. The said seminary of learning shall remain located at or near the town of Bloomington, McLean county Illinois; the number of trustees shall not exceed fifteen for the present, the above named individuals, shall constitute the board of trustees who shall fill the remaining vacancies at their discretion.

Sec. 2. The object of said corporation shall be the promotion of the general interests of education, and to qualify young females for the honorable and useful discharge of the various duties of life.

Sec. 3. 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 conferred on similar bodies politic, viz: to have perpetual succession, to make contracts, to sue and to be sued, plead and be impleaded, to grant and receive by its corporate name, and do all other acts that natural persons may, to accept, acquire, purchase, or sell property, real or 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 the promotion of the aforesaid object; to have a common seal, and to alter and change the same, to make such bye-laws for its regulations as are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or of this state.

Sec. 4. The trustees of said corporation shall have au-

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thority from time to time, to prescribe and regulate the course of studies to be pursued in said institution, and in the preparatory departments attached thereto; to fix the rate of tuitions, room rent, and other expenses of the institution, to appoint instructors, and such other officers, and agents, as may be needed in managing the concerns of said institution, to define their powers, duties and employments, to fix their compensation, to displace, and remove either of the instructors, agents, and officers as said trustees shall deem, the interest of said institution may require, to fill all vacancies among said instructors, officers or agents; to erect necessary buildings, to purchase necessary books, chemical and philosophical apparatus, and other suitable means of instruction, to make rules for the general management of the affairs of the institution, and for the regulation of the conduct of the students.

Sec. 5. The trustees for the time being shall have power to remove any trustee from his office as such, for any dishonorable, or criminal conduct; Provided, that no such removal shall take place without giving to such trustee notice of the charge or charges against him, and an opportunity to defend himself before the board, nor unless that two thirds of the whole number of trustees 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 or trustees shall be removed from office, die, resign or remove out of the state, to appoint a resident of this state, to fill the vacancy occasioned as aforesaid. A majority of the trustees, for the time being shall be a quorum to do business.

Sec. 6. The trustees shall faithfully apply all funds by them eollected, or hereafter collected according to their best judgment in erecting suitable buildings, in supporting the necessary instructors, officers, and agents, in procuring books, maps, charts, globes, philosophical, chemical and other apparatus necessary to aid in the promotion of sound learning in said institution; Provided, that in case any donation, devise or bequest shall be made for particular purposes, accordant, with the objects of said institution, and the trustees shall accept the same, every such donation, devise or bequest shall be applied in conformity with the express conditions of said donor, or devisor.

Sec. 7. The said corporation shall have power in their corporate character, as trustees aforesaid and for the exclusive use and benefit of said institution, to hold in perpetuity, to them and their successors forever, any lands, tenements and hereditiments not exceeding forty acres, which may be vested in them by gift, grant, donation or devise; Provided, that if donations, grants, or devises in land shall from time to time

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be made to said corporation of more than said forty acres of land to be held in perpetuity, the same may be received and held by said corporation for the period of three years from and after the date of said donation, grant, or devise, at the end of which time if the said land over and above said said forty acres shall not have been sold by said corporation, then and in that case said land so donated, granted or devised as aforesaid, shall revert to the donor, grantor or the heirs of the devisor of the same; Provided, that said corporation shall have the right within the period of said three years, to sell and dispose of, for the use and benefit of said institution the aforesaid land, over and above said forty acres so given, granted or devised as aforesaid.

Sec. 8. The treasurer of said institution always and other agents when required by said trustees, before entering upon the duties of their appointments, shall give bonds for the security of the corporation in such penal sums with such securities as the board of trustees shall approve; and all process against said corporation shall be by summons, and service of the same shall be by leaving an attested copy with the treasurer of said institution at least thirty days before the return day thereof.

Sec. 9. The said insttitution and its preparatory department, 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 institution whose habits are idle or vicious, or whose moral character is bad.

Approved, Jan. 9, 1836.