Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Joseph Rosale, John Tinson, and J. B. Raho, and their successors, be, and

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they are hereby, created a body politic and corporate, to be styled “The La Salle Charity Hospital,” with full power to acquire, hold, and transfer property, real and personal; make contracts, sue and be sued, plead and be implead, in their corporate capacity; to have and 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 and proper for the purposes of a charity hospital.

Sec. 2. The object of the corporation shall be the erection and maintenance of a hospital to afford relief to destitute persons who may become sick, or disabled, from other causes, from providing for themselves; and in which to take care of all such persons, and especially persons who may be engaged on the public works of the State. Saidhospital 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; and when the commissioners have made the selection, they shall give to the trustees of said institution a certificate describing said lot of land; and 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, and for no other purpose; and when they shall cease to use the land for the purpose for which it was donated for the period of one year, it shall revert to the State.

Sec. 3. The said trustees shall have power to make and alter by-laws and regulations for the government of said institution, as they may think proper, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State, or of the United States, and shall have power to fill all vacancies in their body; to appoint a president, and such other officers as they may think proper, for the management of said institution; and shall hold the property of said institution solely for the purposes for which the hospital is incorporated, and not as a stock for the individual benefit of themselves, or of any contributor for the endowment of the same; and no particular religious faith shall be required of those who become trustees or inmates of the institution.

Sec. 4. 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 and sixty acres of land at one time; and when the donations in land shall exceed the amount of one hundred and sixty acres, they shall dispose of

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the same, and apply the proceeds to the purposes above mentioned, within five years from the time the donation is made, or is shall revert to the donor, grantor, or the heirs of the devisor.

Sec. 5. The land granted by the State shall (be) unalienable by the corporation; and if a hospital is not established by said corporation, by the erection of the necessary buildings for the accommodation of at least twenty destitute persons, within two years from the passage of this act, the corporation shall cease to exist, and the land granted by this act revert to the State.

Sec. 6. The trustees shall faithfully apply all gifts, grants, and donations accepted by them, according to the express desire of persons making the same; but lands shall be accepted subject to the limitations herein contained.

Approved, February 23, 1839.2