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 McClure, 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. For the present the abovenamed 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, 1835, from the fifth to the twelfth sections, inclusive, are hereby re-enacted in favor of the corporation created by this act, and shall have the same force and effect, with respect thereto, as if herein particularly enumerated and set forth.

Sec. 3. The first meeting of the said trustees shall be at said Geneva, at such time, within three years from and after the passage 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 authorized to establish and maintain, at said Geneva, an institution for the purposes of female education, either separately 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 authorize 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 annulling 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.

Approved, February 21, 1839.