Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That James Hutchinson, sen., Reuben Hatch, sen., J. A. Collins, George S. Purkitt, J. McWilliams, 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 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 a 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 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. 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, 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 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 such 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 shall, before

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entering upon the duties of his appointment, give bond 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 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. The lands within the bounds of this State, held in perpetuity by this charter, shall not exceed 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 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. 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.

Approved 7th February, 1837.