Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That John Pearson, James H. Collins, Joseph Naper, Warren Smith, Harry Boardman, James T. Gifford, George M^clure, Allen P. Hubbard, Hugh C. Gibson, Henry A. Miller, David Dunham and Caleb A. Buckingham and their successors be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, to be styled and known by the name of “The Trustees of Kane College,” and by that ^style and^ name to remain and have perpetual succession. The said college shall remain located at or near Geneva in Kane county. The number of trustees shall not exceed fifteen, exclusive of the president, principal or presiding officer of the college, who shall ex officio be a member of the board of trustees. No other instructor shall be a member of the board of trustees. For the present the above named individuals shall constitute the board of trustees, and shall fill the remaining vacancies at their discretion.

Sec. 2. All the provisions of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the colleges therein named, Approved February 9^th 1835,[”] from the fifth to the twelfth Sections inclusive are hereby re enacted in favor of the corporation [c]reated by this act, and shall have th[e] [f]orce and effect with respect thereto . . . [he]rein particularly enumerated and set . . .

[Sec. 3.] The first meeting of the said tru[stees] . . . [s]hall be at said Geneva, at such . . . within three years from and after the pa[ssag]e of this act, as the three persons last mentioned in the first section of this act shall direct, they causing at least ten days notice of such meeting to be given to the other trustees.

Sec. 4: The said trustees are authorised to establish, and maintain at said Geneva an institution for the purposes of female education, either separate^ly^ or in connection with the preparatory department of said College. Nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to require the said trustees to put into operation any of the various departments of the said College until in their opinion the public convenience and necessity require, and the state of the funds of the said corporation shall authorise the necessary expenditures.

Sec. 5. If at any time the corporation hereby created 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 state’s attorney within whose circuit the said college shall be located to file an information in the nature of a quo warranto, for the purpose of vacating and Annuling this act and the powers herein granted.

Sec. 6. This act is hereby declared a public Act; And shall take effect from and after its passage.