An Act to incorporate the rush Medical College.

Section. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That, Theophilus1 W. Smith, Thomas Ford, E D Taylor2[,] Josiah C. Goodhue, Isaac T. Hinton, John T. Temple, Justin Butterfield, Edmund S. Kimberly, James H. Collins, Henrey Moore, S. S. Whitman, John Wright, William B. Ogden, Ebenezer Peck, John H. Kinzie, John D. Caton, and Grant Goodrich, be, and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate to be styled and known by the name of “The Trustees of Rush Medical College” and by that style and name to remain and have perpetual succession. The College shall be located in or near Chicago, in Cook County. The number of trustees shall not exceed Seventeen, exclusive of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of this state, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the presiding officer of the College,

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all of whom shall be, Ex Officio, members of the board of trustees.

Section 2^d. The object of incorporation shall be, to promote the general interests of Medical Education, and to qualify Young Men to engage usefully and honorably in the Professions of Medicine and Surgery.

Section 3. The corporate powers hereby bestowed shall be such only as are essential or useful in the attainment of said objects, and such as are usually conferred on similar bodies corporate—namely—In their corporate name, to have perpetual succession, to make contracts, to sue and be sued, to plead and by impleaded, to grant and receive by its corporate name, and to do all other acts as natural persons may, to accept and acquire, purchase and sell property, real, personal or mixed, in all lawfull ways to use, employ, manage, dispose of such property and all money belonging to said corporation, in such manner as shall seem to the trustees best adapted to promote the objects aforesaid: to have a common seal and to alter and change the same: to make

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such bye-laws as are not inconsistent with the Constitution and Laws of the United States and this State and to confer on such persons as may be considered worthy such accademical or honorary degrees, as are usually conferred by similar institutions.

Section. 4. The trustees of said College shall have authority from time to time to prescribe and regulate the course of studies to be pursued in said college, to fix the rate of tuition, lecture fees[,] and other college expenses, to appoint instructors, professors[,] and such other officers and agents as may be needed in managing the concerns of the institution: to define their powers, duties, and employments, and to fix their compensation; to displace and remove either of the instructors, officers, or agents, or all of them, whenever the said trustees shall deem it for the interest of the college to do so; to fill all vacancies among said instructors, professors, officers[,] or agents; to erect all necessary and suitable buildings; to purchase books and philosophical and chemical apparatus, and procure the necessary and suitable means of instruction in all the

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different departments of Medicine and Surgery; to make rules for the general management of the affairs of the college.

Section. 5. The board of trustees shall have power to remove any trustee from office, for dishonorable or criminal conduct, Provided, that no such removal shall take place without giving to such trustee notice of the charges preferred against him, and an opportunity to defend himself before the board: nor unless two thirds of the whole number of trustees for the time being shall concur in such removal. The board of trustees shall have power, whenever a vacancy shall occur by removal from office, death, resignation or removal[,] out of the state, to appoint some citizen of the state to fill such vacancy. The majority of the trustees for the time being, shall constitute a quorum to transact business.

Section .6. The trustees shall faithfully apply all funds by them collected in erecting suitable buildings, in supporting the necessary instructors, professors, officers[,] and agents;in procuring books, philosophical and chemical apparatus, and specimans in natural history, Mineralogy, Geology,

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and Botany and such other means as may be necessary or usefull for teaching thoroughly the different branches of Medicine and Surgery, Provided, That in case any donation, devise[,] or bequest, shall be made for particular purposes, accordant with the objects of the institution and the trustees shall accept the same, every such donation, devise or bequest, shall be applied in conformity with the express condition of the donor or devisor; Provided, Also that lands donated or devised as aforesaid shall be sold or disposed of as required by the last section of this act; And Provided further, that said trustees may, should they receive funds for that purpose, establish a Hospital and if they deem if advisable, connect the same with the said college.

Section. 7. The treasurer of said college always and all other agents when required by the trustees, before entering upon the duties of their office shall give bonds respectively for the security of the corporation, in such penal sum, and with such sureties as the board of trustees approve. And all process against said

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corporation shall be by summons and service of the same shall be by leaving an attested copy with the Treasurer of the college at least thirty days before the return day thereof.

Section. 8. The lands, tenements, and heredetements, to be held in perpetuity in virtue of this act, by said institution shall not exceed six hundred and forty acres, provided however, that if donations, grants[,] or devises, of land, shall from time to time be made to said corporation, over and above six hundred and forty acres which may be held in perpetuity as aforesaid, the same may be received and held by said corporation for the period of six years from the date of any such donation, grant[,] or devise, at the end of which time, if the said lands over and above the six hundred and forty acres shall not have been sold, then and in that case the lands so donated, granted[,] or devised shall revert to the donor, grantor, or to their heirs.