Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Joel Wright, Lathrop W. Curtis, Nathan Jones, N. G. Berryman, Robert Stewart, Royal Wright, Isaiah Stillman, Thomas D. Lord, Samuel G. Wright, and Samuel B. Owings, their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby, created a body corporate, to be styled and known by the name and style of “The trustees of the Canton College of Illinois,” and by that name to remain and have perpetual succession, with full power to acquire, by donation, purchase, or devise, and to hold and transfer, property, real, personal, and mixed, subject to the restrictions and provisions contained in the sixth section of the act to which this is an amendment; by that name to make contracts, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any courts of competent jurisdiction; and, in their corporate capacity, to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter, or destroy, at pleasure.

Sec. 2. That said trustees shall have power to increase their own number, in any manner and at any time that they may deem right and proper, to any number not exceeding twenty-five, and, for the perpetuation of their own corporate existence, to fill all vacancies that may occur in said board by death, resignation, or otherwise.

Sec. 3. No person shall be considered honorary graduates of the aforesaid college, nor be entitled to a diploma as such, unless the applicant for such honorary degree shall be found, on examination by the board authorized to be appointed by the fifth section of the act hereinbefore referred to, worthy, and in possession of learning equal to that which is required on the part of the regular graduates of said college, any thing in the fifth section of said act to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sec. 4. The first section of an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Canton College of Illinois,” approved February 8, 1837, is hereby repealed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to invalidate any proceedings of the trustees appointed by the said first section of the aforesaid act; but the acts done by the said trustees under the authority of said act, and the rights thereby acquired, are hereby ratified and confirmed as fully as if the same had been done strictly in conformity with the provisions of this act.

Sec. 5. This act to be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 9, 1839.