Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois Represented in General Assembly that Joseph Rosali[,]John Tinson [,] & J B Raho & their Successors be & they are hereby created a body politic & corporate to be styled the La Salle Charity Hospital with full power to acquire[,] hold[,] & transfer property real & personal[,] make contracts[,] sue & be sued[,] plead & be impleaded in their corporate capacity[,] to have & use a common seal[,] to alter the same at pleasure. Said Trustees shall never exceed nine in number: but it is expressly declared that the powers hereby granted 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 & proper for the purposes of a Charity Hospital.

Sec 2^d The object of theCorporation shall be the erection & maintenance of a Hospital to afford relief to destitute persons who may become sick or disabled from other causes from providing for themselves & in which to take care of all such persons & especially persons who may be engaged on the public works of the State. Said Hospital shall be located near the Town of La Salle in La Salle county on Canal land to be selected by the canal commissioners on or near the west side of said Town: the Land to be selected shall not exceed five acres in quantity. & when the commissioners have made the selection they shall give to the Trustees of said institution a certificate describing said Lot of Land & the governor shall patent the Lot of Land so described to the said Trustees by their corporate name for the use of the Charity Hospital & for no other purpose & when they shall cease to use the Land for the purpose for which it was donated for

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the period of one year it shall revert to the State

Sec 3^d The said Trustees shall have power to make & alter bye-laws & regulations for the government of said institution as they may think proper not inconsistant with the constitution & Laws of this State or of the United States & shall have power to fill all vacances in their body to appoint a President & such other officers as they may think proper for the management of said institution: & shall hold the property of said institution solely for the purposes for which the Hospital is incorporated & not as a stock for the individual benefit of themselves or of any contributor for the endowment of the same & no particular religious faith shall be required of those who become Trustees or inmates of the institution.

Sec 4^th It shall be lawful for the Trustees of said institution to receive donations from any person or persons to aid them in the erection of necessary buildings for said institution or for accomplishing the charitable objects of the institution after it is erected Provided that said corporation shall not be allowed to hold more than one hundred & sixty acres of Land at one time & when the donations in Land shall exceed the amount of one hundred & sixty acres they shall dispose of the same & apply the proceeds to the purposes above mentioned within five years from the time the donation is made or it shall revert to the donor[, ]grantor[,] or the heirs of the devisor.

Sec 5^th The Land granted by the State shall be unalienable by the Corporation & if a Hospital is not established by said corporation by the erection of the necessary buildings for the accomodation of at least twenty destitute persons within two years from the passage of this act the corporation shall cease to exist & the Land granted by this act shall revert to the State

Sec 6 The Trustees shall faithfully apply all gifts[,] grants[,] & donations accepted by them according to the express desire of persons making the same but Lands shall be accepted subject to the limitations herin contained.