An act to Incorporate the Illinois Feemale Institute

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly. That Samuel Wiley, James T. Simpson, Samuel Gordon, Oliver Banister Samuel Nesbit Hay Ebenezer Alexander and their successors be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate to be styled the Trustees of the Illinois Feemale Institute and in that name to remain in perpetual succession with power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded to acquire; have 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 bye laws as they may deem necessary for the Government of said Institution, its Officers and servants, provided such bye laws are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State or of the United States

Sec. 2. For the managing of the Affairs of the said Institution there shall be chosen from among the subscribers a number of Trustees not exceeding seven, and the trustees so chosen 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 said Institution solely for the purposes of Feemale Education, and not as a Stock for the individual benifit of themselves or 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 the Flat prairie in the County of Randolph and the Trustees shall be competent in law and equity to take to themselves and their successors in Office in their said corporate name, real, personal and ^or^ mixed, by the gift, grant, bargain and sale, convayance will devise or bequest of any person or persons whomsoever

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and the same estate whether real or personal, to grant bargain sell and convey, demise, let, place out at Interest or otherwise dispose of the same for the use of said institution, in such manner as to them may seem most benificial to said institution; Said Trustees shall faithfully apply all funds collected, or the proceeds of the property belonging to the said institution 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 aperatus 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 such donation devise or bequest shall be applied in conformity with the express conditions of the donor or devisor And provided further, that said corporation shall not be allowed to hold more than three hundred and twenty acres of land at any one time unless the said corporation shall have received the same by gift, grant or devise, and in such case they shall be required to sell or dispose of the same within three years from the time they shall acquire such title, and on failure to do so, said land shall revert to the original donor, grantor, devisor or their heirs.

Sec. 4. The Treasurer of the institution 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 sum and with such securities as the Board of Trustees shall approve. And all processes 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 sixty 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 all such servants as may be necessary

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and shall have power to displace any or either of them, as they may deem the interest of the institution requires, 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. 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 this act and the powers herein granted.