Sec 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That Reuben Canterberry Thomas B. Trower Alexander P. Dunbar N. Ellington C. L. Morton, N. Parker, H. R. Norfolk William Collem and Adam Mitchell and their successors be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate to be styled and known by the name of the President and Trustees of the Charleston Academy and by that style and name to remain and have perpetual succession; the said academy shall be and remain located at or near Charleston in Coles County and State of Illinois; the number of Trustees shall not exceed twelve, one of whom shall be president of the board to be chosen by the Trustees. For the present the above named individuals shall constitute the board of trustees, who shall fill the remaining vacancies at their discretion.

Sec[Section] 11 William Hunter, William Young, Duncan Johnson, L. D. Plant, Noah Leverton, James Johnson, B. T. Kavanaugh, M^cKendree Fox, and William Mills, and there successors be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, to be styled and known by the name of “the Trustees of the Amity Academy” and by that style and name to remain and have perpetual succession; the said academy ^shall^ be and remain at or near the town of Amity in the County of Bond and State of Illinois; the number of Trustees shall not exceed twelve one of whom shall be president of the board

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to be chosen by the trustees. For the present the above named individuals shall constitute the board of Trustees, who shall fill the ^remaining^ vacancies at their descretion

Sec 3 32 The object of said corporation shall be the promotion of the general interests of education

Sec 4 4 3 The corporate powers hereby bestowed shall be such only as are assential or useful in the attainment of said object and such as are usually conferred on similar bodies corporate, to wit: to have perpetual sucession[,] to make contracts, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, to grant and recieve by its corporate name, and to do all other acts as natural persons may; to accept[,] aquire[,] purchase[,] or sell property[,] real[,] personal[,] or 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 before mentioned; to have a common seal, and to alter or change the same to make such by-laws for its regulation 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 academical or honorary degrees as are usually conferred by similar institutions; [...?]

Sec 5 54 The trustees of said corporations shall have authority from time to time, to prescribe and regulate the course of studies to

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be persued in said Academies to fix the rate of tuition, and other academical expenses; to appoint instructors and such other officers and agents as may be necessary in manageing the concerns of the institutions, to define their duties, to fix their compensation[,] to displace or remove them[,] to erect necessary buildings[,] to purchase Books chemical philosophical and other apparatus, and other suitable means of instruction and to make rules for the general regulation of the conduct of the students

Sec 6 65 The trustees for the time being, in order to have perpetual succession shall have power to fill any vacancy which may occur in the board from death[,] removal[,] resignation[,] or any other cause, a majority ^of^ the trustees for the time being shall be a quorum to do business

Sec 7 76 It shall be the duty of said trustees to appoint one of their number treasurer to the board who shall, when required by the board to do so, give bond with sufficient security, in such penal sum as the board may prescribe, conditioned for the performance of such duties as by the by-laws may require of him

Sec 8 87 The said institutions shall be open to all denominations of Christians, and the profession of any particular religious faith shall not be required of those who become students, all persons however, may be suspended or expelled from said institutions by the trustees thereof whose

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habits are idle or vicious; or whose moral character is bad.

Sec 9 98 The lands, tenements and hereditaments, to be held in perpetuity by virtue of this act, by said corporations, shall not exceed six hundred and forty acres; Provided however That if any donations, grants[,] or devises in lands shall from time to time be made to ^either of said ^ said corporations, over and above the said six hundred and forty acres which may be held in perpetuity as aforesaid, the same may be received and held by said corporation for the period of ten years from the date of any such donation, grant[,] or devise at the end of which time, if the said land shall not have been sold by the corporation, ^receiving the same^ Then and in that case the said lands so donated, granted[,] or devised, shall revert to the donor[,] grantor[,] or the heirs of the ^of such grantor or^ deviser of the same

Sec. 10 10 There shall also be attached to the said Academies an department ^a department^ in which shall be taught branches that are usually taught in common schools, which shall constitute the common schools, of the district in which said Academies ^or either of them^ may be situated; and the trustees of said academies shall recieve from the school commissioners of the Countys in which they may be situatd, the amount of money of money in the same proportion, and apply the same to such tuition in the same manner as other common schools are paid and kept: Provided That the . . .

Sec 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That William Hunter, William Young, Duncan Johnson, L. D. Plant, Noah Leverton, James Johnson, B. T. Kavanaugh, M^cKendree Fox, and William Mills, and their successors, be and they are hereby appointed ^created^ a body politic and corporate, to be styled and known by the name of “the Trustees of the Amity Academy” and by that syle and name to remain and have perpetual succession; the said academy shall be and remain at or near the town of Amity in the County of Bond and State of Illinois; the number of trustees shall not exceed twelve, one of whom shall be President of the Board, to be chosen by the trustees. For the present the above named individuals shall constitute the Board of Trustees, who shall fill the remaining vacancies at their discretion.

Sec 2 The object of said corporation shall be the promotion of the general interests of education.

Sec 3 John Thomas, William. W. Roman, James Riggin, Benjamin Hypes, James W. Sunderland, Benjamin T Kavanaugh, William Brown[,] and Annis Merrill and their successors in office, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of “The Lebanon Female Academy” and by that name shall be styled and known and have perpetual succession, the saidAcademy , designed for the education of females, shall be and remain at or near Lebanon in the county of St Clair and State of Illinois; the trustees shall not exceed twelve ^13^, one of whom ^13.^ shall be elected president of the board by said trustees

For the present the above named individuals shall con-

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stitute the board of trustees, and they may fill the remaining vacancies at their discretion a majority of the actual number of trustees shall be a quorum to do business, Provided, in no case shall less than four constitute a quorum

Sec 4 The corporate powers hereby bestowed shall be such only as are essential or useful in the attainment of said object and such as are us^u^ally confered on similar bodies corporate, to wit: to have perpetual succession[,] to make contracts, to sue, and be sued, plead, and be impleaded; to grant and receive by its corporate names, and to do all other acts as natural persons may; to accept [,]acquire[,] purchase[,] or sell property[,] real[,] personal[,] or mixed, in all lawful ways, to use, employ[,] manage[,] and dispose of all such property, and all money belonging to said corporations in such manner as shall seem to the trustees best adapted to promote the objects before mentioned; to have a commons seals and to alter or change the same, to make such by-Laws for its ^their^ regulations 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 academical or honorary degreess as are usually confered by similar institutions.

Sec 5 The trustees of said corporation^s^ shall have authority from time to time, to prescribe and regulate the course of studies to be pursued in said Academies[;] to fix the rate of tuition, and other academical expenses; to appoint instructors . . .