Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Elihu Wolcott, Samuel D. Lockwood, Joseph Duncan, Ero Chandler, John P. Wilkinson, Bezaleel Gillett, Dennis Rockwell, David B. Ayres, Julian M. Sturtevant, Benjamin Godfrey, Ebenezer T. Miller, Matthew Stacy, and William Brown, and their successors, be, and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, to be styled “The Trustees of the Jacksonville Female Academy,” and in that name to remain in perpetual succession, with power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, to acquire, hold, and convey property, real and personal, to have and use a common seal, to alter the same at pleasure, to make, and alter from time to time, such by-laws as they may deem necessary for the government of said institution, its officers and servants: Provided, such by-laws be not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States, or of this State.

Sec. 2. The trustees shall have power to fill such vacancies in their own body as may happen by death, resignation, or otherwise, and shall hold the property of the said institution, solely for the purposes of female education, and not as a stock for the individual benefit of themselves, or of any contributor to the endowment of the same; and no particular religious faith shall be required of those who become trustees or students of the institution.

Sec. 3. Said institution shall remain located in Jacksonville, in the county of Morgan; and the said trustees shall be competent, in law and in equity, to take to themselves and their successors in office, in their said corporate name, any estate, real, personal, or mixed, by the gift, grant, bargain and sale, conveyance, will, devise, or bequest of

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any person or persons whomsoever; and the same estate, whether real or personal, to grant, bargain, sell, convey, demise, let, place out on interest, or otherwise dispose of for the use of said institution, in such manner as shall seem to them most beneficial to the institution. Said trustees shall faithfully apply all funds collected, or the proceeds, according to their best judgment, in erecting and completing suitable buildings, supporting the necessary officers, instructors and servants, and procuring books, maps, charts, globes, philosophical and other apparatus, necessary to the success of said institution: Provided, nevertheless, That in case any donation, devise, or bequest, shall be made for particular purposes, accordant with the design of this institution, and the corporation shall accept the same, every donation, devise or bequest, shall be applied in conformity with the express conditions of the donor or devisor.

Sec. 4. The treasurer of the institution always, and all other agents, when required, before entering on the duties of their appointment, shall give bonds for the security of the corporation, in such penal sums, and with such securities as the board of trustees shall approve, and all process against the corporation, shall be by summons, and the service of the same shall be by leaving an attested copy thereof with the treasurer, at least thirty days before the return thereof.

Sec. 5. The trustees shall have power to employ and appoint a principal for said institution, and all such instructors and instructresses, and also such servants as may be necessary, and shall have power to displace any or either of them, as they may deem the interest of the institution to require, to fill vacancies which may happen by death, resignation, or otherwise, among said officers and servants, and to prescribe and direct the course of study to be pursued in said institution.

Sec. 6. The lands within the bounds of this State, held in perpetuity by this charter, shall not exceed twelve acres, held at one time; and if donations in land shall be made at any time to said corporation, the same may be received and held in trust by said board of trustees, and shall be sold within three years from the date of such donation, for the benefit of said institution; in failure whereof, the lands so given, shall revert to the donor or grantor of the same, and the said board of trustees shall, in no case, lease or rent out, any lands so held in trust as last aforesaid.

Sec. 7. If, at any time, the corporation shall act contrary to the provisions of this act, or shall, in any manner, abuse the powers herein granted, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to file an information in the nature of a quo warranto, for the purpose of vacating and annulling

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this act and the powers herein granted: Provided, nevertheless, That all the real and personal property of each of the trustees shall be bound for the payment of all contracts which they shall enter into for said institution.2

Approved, Jan. 27, 1835.