An act to Incorporate the ^Trustees of the^ Geneseo Manual Labor High School.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State [of] Illinois represented in the General assembly. That Rufus Hubbard[,] Elisha Cone[,] and James Wilcox & their ^successors^ be, and they are hereby created a body corporate ^shall have perpetual succession^ to be styled the Trustees of the Geneseo Manual Labor High school to be located in Township Seventeen North Range Three East at or near the town of Geneseo, in Henry county with full power to acquire, hold[,] and transfer property, real and personal, make contracts, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in their corporate capacity, to make have and use a common seal, and the same to break[,] alter[,] or destroy at pleasure, and said Trustees shall never exceed the number of Eleven,.

For the present, the aforesaid individuals shall constitute the board of trustees, who shall fill the remaining vacancies at their discretion

But is expressly declared, that the power hereby given shall not be used or construed, to extend to the contracting for or acquiring, any property real, personal, or mixed, or for dealing any otherwise, than in such things as may be necessary and proper for the purposes of an institution of larning; and the whole property and estate of said corporation, shall be applied exclusively, and solely to that purpose, and said corporation shall not deal in exchange, discount of notes or in Commercial business or pursuits.

Sec[Section] 2^nd That the before named trustees, shall have power to fill all vacancies in their own body

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to appoint a chairman of their board, a president and professors, and such other officers and servants under them, as they deem necessary and proper, to hold these offices under such rules and regulations, as the said trustees may prescribe and to make, allow[,] and pay to the president[,] professors, and other officers and servants, such reasonable compensation for their Services, as to the said Trustees, may seem right and proper and the said Trustees shall have full power, and authority to make bye-laws, rules[,] and regulations, for the better government of saidschool as they may judge expedient, and the same to annul, alter[,] or amend at pleasure Provided, said bye laws, rules[,] and regulations be not repugnant, to the laws of this state or inconsistent with the principles laid down in this act as fundamental law for the government of said school, and the said Trustees shall have full power to do and perform any lawful matter or thing which they may deem conducive to the good of the institution, and consistent with the state of the funds thereof

Sec[Section] 3^rd A majority of the trustees shall constitute a board, competent to make pro tempore appointments, and the transaction of all business except the permanent appointment or removal of officers, in which case a concurrence of two thirds of the whole number board shall be necessary.

Sec 4 The board of trustees shall have the entire control, of the system of manual Labor, and shall determine the proportion of labor of each student, and no student shall be received as a regular member of the school unless he submit to the performance of such an amount of labor as is enjoined by the Trustees, and the trustees shall account to each student for such labor, which shall be appropriated to the discharge of his expenses [at?] said school

Sec 5 No religious doctrine peculiar to any one sect of christians, shall be inculcated by any professor in said school; but said institution shall at all times be conducted upon free, liberal[,] and enlightened principles and no student shall be excluded in Consequence of his religious opinions, or those of his parents, guardians, or relations

Sec. 6. That it shall and may be lawful for the trustees of saidschool, to receive, acquire, hold[,] and procure from any individual or society, religious or otherwise, donations[,] gifts[,] or bequests, of any sum or sums of money, books, maps, charts, philosophical apparatus, or estate of any kind, which shall be applied, wholly and exclusively to the uses and purposes that [...?] ^may be^ especially, designated by the donors respectively or to the establishment and maintainance of one or more professorships, to be appointed by the

donors, to be separate and distinct from the internal concerns of said School: Provided, that the fundamental law of said school, which forbids doctrines, peculiar to any set of christians, to be taught by any professor in said school, shall remain un Changed and inviolate, except in the theological department, of which he is professor, where he or they hold any ^other^ professorships in said School; each and every department of theology, law[,] or medicine or other professorships, that may be established shall remain, as to the internal Concerns separate and distinct from the literary department, and shall at all times regulate their own affairs, without interfering with or being interfered with in any way, with the bye laws or statutes of the school, or of any department thereof; and the privilege is hereby secured to each and every denomination of christians to establish a professorship of theology they severally furnishing the funds necessary for its support.

Sec 7. That the first meeting of the trustees hereby appointed shall be held at the dwelling house of Rufus Hubbard, on the first Monday in may next or as soon thereafter as may be convenient and the said trustees, shall have at least one stated meeting in every year, and should any trustee hereby appointed, or hereafter to be chosen, refuse to Serve, the seat of such trustee or trustees shall be

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declared by the board to be vacant and they may proceed to fill the vacancy as heretofore provided

Sec 8. The Lands, tenements, hereditaments to be held in perpetuity, in virtue of this act by said corporation shall not exceed five hundred acres, Provided however, that if donations, grants, or devises in land, shall from time to time, be made to said corporation, over and above said five hundred acres, Which may be held in perpetuity as aforesaid the same may be held and received by the 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 the said five hundred acres shall not have been sold by said corporation then and in that case the lands so donated[,] granted[,] or devised, shall revert to the donor[,] grantor, or the heirs of the devisor of the same