Sec.[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, that William Wilson, Samuel H. Tompson, Thornton Peeples, John S Barger, Benjamin Hypes, Hiram K Ashley, Joshua Barnes, James Riggin, Nathan Horner, Benjamin T. Kavanaugh, Theophilus M. Nichols[,] Crispin Cunningham, John Hogan, Jesse Renfro, Benjamin Bond, and ^10.^Alexander M. Jenkins and their successors in Office ^(^be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of “the ^13^M^cKendree College” and ^)^ henceforth shall be styled and known by that name and by that style and name, to remain and have perpetual succession; the number of Trustees shall not exceed eighteen exclusive of the President[,] Principal[,] or presiding officer of the ^College^ who shall exofficio be a member of the board of trustees. No other instructor shall be a member of said board; provided however, that the board of Trustees by a majority of two thirds at their annual meeting, may increase the number of said Trustees to any number not exceeding thirty six. For the present the aforesaid individuals shall Constitute the board of Trustees who shall at their discretion fill the remaining vacancies and such as may hereafter be created should the number be increased

Sec. 2^nd The object of said Corporation shall be the promotion of the general interest of education and to qualify young men to engage in the several employments and professions of society and to discharge honourably and usefully, the various duties of life

Sec. 3^d 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 confered on similar corporate bodies, viz, to have perpetual succession; to make Contracts, to sue and be sued, implead 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 [,] and 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 objects aforementioned; to have a Common seal, and to alter or change the same; to make such by-laws for the regulation of the Corporation 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 Academichal or honorary degrees as are usually Confered by similar institutions

Sec. 4^th The Trustees shall have authority from time to time to prescribe and regulate the Course of study to be pursued in said College, and the preparatory department attached thereto; to fix the rate of Tuition, room rent[,] and other College expenses; to appoint the President of the Institution and other members of the faculty and such other instructors, officers[,] and agents as may be needed in managing the Concerns of the institution[;] to define their powers, duties[,] and employments, to fix their Compensation, to displace and remove the President, any member of the faculty, either of the instructors, officers[,] or agents

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as said Trustees shall deem the interest of the said College shall require, to fill all vacancies in the faculty and among the officers, instructors[,] and agents, to erect necessary buildings, purchase books and chemical, phylosophical[,] and other aparatus, and other suitable means of instruction[;] to put in operation if the Trustees shall deem it expedient, a system of manual labor for the purpose of promoting the health of the students and lessening the expense of education; to make rules for the general management of the officers of the College and for the regulation of the Conduct of the Students; and to add as ability of said Corporation shall increase and the interest of the Community shall require additional departments, for the study of any or all the liberal professions.

Sec. 5^th The Trustees shall faithfully apply all funds by them collected, or hereafter collected according to their best judgment in erecting suitable buildings, in supporting the necessary institutions, officers[,] and agents, in purchasing books, maps, charts, globes, philosophical, chemical[,] and other aparatus, necessary to aid in the promotion of sound learning, in said institution

Sec. 6^th Any donation[,] devise[,] or bequest made for special purposes, accordant with the objects of the institution, if the trustees shall accept the same, shall be faithfully and truly applied in conformity with the express Condition or Conditions of the donor or devisor. The lands[,] tenements[,] and hereditaments to be held in perpituity in virtue of this act, shall not exceed three thousand acres; Provided however that grants[,]

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donations[,] or devises in lands which from time to time shall be made to said Corporation may be held for the term of ten years from the date of every such grant[,] donation[,] or devise, at the end of which time, the said lands over and above the before naimed three thousand acres, shall be sold by the Corporation and in Case of neglect to sell said lands so donated, shall revert to the original donor or devisor or to the lawful heirs of the same

Sec. 7^th The treasurer and other agents of the institution when required by the trustees shall give bond for the security of the Corporation in such penal^ty^ and with such security as the board shall approve and all process against said Corporation shall be by summons and service of the same, shall be by leaving an attested Copy with the Treasurer, at least thirty days before the return day thereof.

Sec. 8^th The Trustees shall have power to establish departments for the study of any, and all of the learned and liberal professions; particularly, law and medicine, and to institute and grant diplomas in the same, to Constitute and Confer the degrees of Doctor in the learned arts and sciences, and belleslettres, and to Confer such other academical degrees as are usually Conferred by the most learned universities

Sec 9^th Said Trustees shall have power to institute a board of Competant persons, always including the faculty who shall examine such individuals as may

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apply, and if said applicants are found to possess such knowledge pursued in said College as in the judgment of said board, renders them worthy, they may be considered graduates in course and shall be entitled to a diploma accordingly, on paying such fee as the Trustees shall affix, which fee however, shall in no case exceed the tuition bills of the full College Course. Said examining board may not exceed the number of ten, three of whom may transact business, provided one be of the faculty

Sec. 10^th In its different departments, the College shall be open to all denominations of Christians, and the profession of any religious faith, shall not be required, in order to admition, but those students who are idle, or vicious, or whose characters are immoral may be suspended or expelled

Sec 11^th Said College shall remain located at or near Lebanon, in the County of S^t Clair State of Illinois. The Trustees shall hold at least one meeting in each year for business, and may appoint other stated meetings of the board; special meetings may at any time be held by order of the President of the board; the President of the College, or any three members of the board ten of whom shall Constitute a quorum to do business. And it shall be lawful for the Illinois annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, to appoint annually a board of visitors, consisting of nine persons, who shall have power to sit with the board of trustees at their annual meetings, and participate with them

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ex officio as members of the board.

Sec 12^th Hereafter the filling of vacancies in the board of trustees, and the appointment of a President of the College professors, and tutors, shall be made, only at the annual meetings, as provided in the eleventh section of this act. Provided, that, the trustees may fill vacancies in the professorship, or employ additional professors or tutors, when necessary until the succeeding regular annual meeting.

Sec 13^th In Case of a division of said Illinois annual Conference into two or more Conferences, of the Methodist Episcopal Church; or if any other annual Conference of the said Methodist E. Church, shall unite with the said Illinois annual Conference, each annual Conference thus patronizing, said College, shall have the same powers and previliges, granted in this act, to the said Illinois annual Conference, Provided, that said visitors shall at not time exceed the number of trustees, and should it so occur by the increase of patronage, that the number of visitors herein provided for, shall exceed in number that of the trustees, the ratio of visitors shall be fixed by the trustees, equally between the several Conferences patronising the same, so as to limit the whole number of visitors, to that of the number of trustees of said College

Sec 14^th The alteration of the name of the institution, shall not effect the title to any property acquired by the institution heretofore; but the title to such estate shall be

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valid to the institution, under the name setforth in this act, whether made to the same, or under the name and style of the Trustees of the M^cKendrian College, or the trustees of M^cKendree College, that all Contracts made with said Corporation whether made under the name of the trustees of the M^cKendrian College, or the trustees of the M^cKendree College, shall enure as well for, as against said Corporation, under the name and style of the M^cKendree College.

Sec. 15^th If any trustees shall be chosen President of the College, his former place as Trustee shall be vacated and his place filled by the remaining Trustees and visiting Committee as herein before provided. The trustees for the time being shall have power to remove any trustee from his office of trustee for any dishonourable, or criminal Conduct. Provided, that no such removal shall take place without giving to such Trustee notice of charges against him, and an opportunity to defend himself, before the board, nor unless that two thirds of the whole number of trustees for the time being shall concur in such removal.

Sec 16^th This act shall be in force from and after the time at which the Trustees of the M^cKendrian College shall accept the same, and the evidence of said acceptance shall be a Copy of the order of the board ordering this act to be spread upon their journals certified by the president and secretary of the board.

Sec 17^th Should the Corporation

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at any time act contrary to the provisions of this Charter or fail to Comply with the same (upon Complaint being made to the Circuit Court of St. Clair County) a scire facias shall issue, and the Circuit attorney, shall prosecute in behalf of the people of the State for a forfeiture of this Charter. This act shall be a public act and shall be construed liberally in all Courts for the purposes herein before expressed, and so far as this institution is Concerned all acts as far as they may be contradictory to this act are hereby repealled.