a bill for an act to Incorporate the Griggsville Female Academy

Sec[Section] 1 ^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in General Assembly, that James Hutchinson Sen.[,] Reuben Hatch Sen.[,] J A Collins[,] Geo. F Purkit[,] J. M^cWilliams[,] J. M Higgins and J. Hutchinson Jun, and their successors, be, and they are hereby created a body politic and Corporate, to be Styled “the trustees of the Griggsville Griggsville 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 bylaws as they may deem necessary for the government of said institution, its officers and servants; Provided, such by laws be not inconsistant with the constitution and laws of the united states, or this state.

Sec 2^d the trustees shall have power to fill such vacancies in their own body as may happen by death or otherwise and shall hold the property of said Institution, solely for the purposes of Female education, and not as a stock for the individual benefit of themselves, and no particular religious faith shall be required of those who become trustees or students of the Institution.

Sec 3^d said Institution shall be located in or near the town of Griggsville in Pike County, and the said trustees shall be competent, in law and equity, to take to themselves and their successors in office, in their said corporate name any estate, real, personal, or mixed, by gift[,] grant[,] bargain[,] and sale conveyance, will, devise, or bequest of any person or persons whomsoever; and the same estate whether real or personal, to grant, bargain, sell, convey, devise[,] let, place out on interest, or otherwise dispose of for the use of said Institution, in such manner as shall

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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 Judgement, in erecting and completing suitable buildings, supporting the necessary officers, Instructors[,] and servaints, and procuring Books, maps, Charts, globes, philosophical and other apparatus, necessary for the use 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^th the treasurer of the institution shall before entering upon1 the duties of the appointment, 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^th 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 ^may^ require to fill such vacancies which may happen by death or otherwise among said officers and Servants, and to prescribe and direct the course of study to be pursued in said institution.

Sec 6^th the lands within the bounds of this state held in perpetuity by this charter, shall not exceede twenty acres held at any one time, and if donations in land shall be made at any time to said Corporation, the same may be held in trust by said board of trustees, and shall be sold within three years from the

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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^th the object of said Corporation shall be the promotion of the general Interest of Female education, and to qualify young Females for the honorable and ^useful^ discharge of the various duties of life