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 Bannister, Samuel Nesbit, Hays, and Ebenezer Alexander2, and their successors be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, to be styled the Trustees of the Illinois Female 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 by-laws as they may deem necessary for the government of said institution, its officers, and servants: Provided, Such by-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 female education, and not as a stock for the individual benefit of themselves, or of 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,

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real, personal, or mixed estate, 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, and convey, demise, let, place out at interest, or otherwise dispose of the same for the use of the said institution in such manner as to them may seem most beneficial to said institution. Said trustees shall faithfully apply all funds collected or the proceed of the property belonging to 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 apparatus, 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 the 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 sums, 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; 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 servant; 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

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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.

Approved, 20th July, 1837.