Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Sidney H. Little, David W. Matthews, Samuel Marshall, Benjamin F. Marsh, Thomas H. Owens, Mark Aldrich, John Lawton, Samuel M. Newhall, Walter Bagby, Thomas Gregg, Ellis Hughes, Homer Brown, E. D. Vandevert, David Greenleaf, Michael Richard, Valentine Wilson, Wesley Williams, Julius A. Reed, E. Chandler and Cyrus Felt 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 Carthage Female High School and Teachers’ Seminary,” and by that style and name to remain and have perpetual succession. The said High School and Seminary shall be and remain at, or within one mile of Carthage, in the county of Hancock and State of Illinois. The number of trustees shall not exceed twenty, nor be less than twelve.

Sec. 2. The object of said corporation shall be the promotion of the general interest of education.

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 corporate, to wit: To have perpetual succession; to make contracts; to sue and be sued; plead 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, or 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 before mentioned, to have a common seal, and to alter or change the same; to make suce by-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 conferred by similar institutions.

Sec. 4. The trustees of said corporation shall have authority from time to time to prescribe and regulate the course of studies to be pursued in said institution to fix the rates of tuition, and other expenses; to appoint instructors and such other officers and agents as may be necessary in managing the concerns of the institution; to define their duties; to fix their compensation, and to displace or remove them; to erect necessary buildings; to purchase 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 in order to have perpetual succession, shall have power to fill any vacancy which may occur in the board from death or otherwise, one-third of the whole number of the trustees shall be a quorum to do business.

Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of said trustees to appoint one of their number treasurer to the board, who shall be required to give bond with sufficient security in such penal sum as the board may prescribe, conditioned for the performance of such duties as the by-laws may require of him.

Sec. 7. The said institution 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 by the trustees thereof, whose habits are idle, or whose moral character is vicious.

Sec. 8. The board of trustees shall have the liberty if it shall be by them thought best to promote the general ob-

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jects of the institution, to introduce a system of manual labor, and in such case they shall determine the proportion of labor of each student, and shall account to each student for such labor, which shall be appropriated to the discharge of his or her expenses in said institution.

Sec. 9. The lands, tenements and hereditaments to be held in perpetuity in virtue of this act by said institution shall not exceed one hundred and sixty acres, Provided, however, that if donations, grants or devises in land shall from time to time be made to said corporation over and above one hundred and sixty acres, which may be held in perpetuity as aforesaid, the same may be received and held by said corporation for the period of five years from the date of every such donation, grant, or devise, at the end of which time, if the said lands over and above one hundred and sixty acres shall not have been sold then and in that case the said lands so donated, granted, or devised, shall revert to the donor, grantor, or the heirs of the devisor of the same.

Approved 15th February, 1837.