Section 1^st

Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general assembly, That Richard F Barrett[,] Joseph Duncan[,] Samuel D Lockwood[,]Daniel W Vittum [,] John W Shinn[,]David W Mathews , Calvin A Warren, John R Wilcox, Daniel S Witter, andWilliam H Rosevelt , and their successors in Office— be and they are hereby created a body politic ^corporate^ to be styled and known by the name of the Trustees of the “Warsaw University” and by that name to remain and have perpetual succession, with full power to acquire hold and transfer property real and personal make Contracts sue & be sued plead & be impleaded, and in their Corporate Capacity to make have & use a Common seal and the same to break alter and destroy at pleasure

Sec[Section]. 2^nd

Said trustees shall not exceed the number of Fifty, the Presedent [President]of the University shall ex officio be a member, and the president of the Board, no other instructor shall be a member, The trustees for the time being in order to have perpetual succession shall have power as often as a trustee shall die resign or remove out of the State to appoint an other suitable person to fill the vacancy in the board of trustees occasioned by such death resignation or removal.

Sec. 3^d

The powers hereby given said trustees shall not be used or construed to extend to the contracting for or acquiring any property real personal or mixed that shall not be necessary and proper for the purposes of an institution of learning of this kind and the whole property of said Corporation shall be faithfully applied to that and all funds by them owned or which may hereafter be owned shall according to the best judgment be applied in erecting buildings in supporting the necessary officers and agents of the institutions, in procuring books, maps, charts, globes, chemical philosophical and such other apparatus as may be required to aid the promotion of said learning

Sec. 4^th

Said Trustees shall prescribe & regulate the Course of studies to be pursued in the University (subject to the approbation of the faculty) and in the preparitory[preparatory] department thereunto, to fix the rate of tuition & the College expenses to appoint such officers & agents as may be required suitably to conduct the University to define their duties & powers & to fix the compensation, to remove any or all of them when the interest of the institution shall fully require it to establish, if thought practable[practicable] a system of practable manual labor, to create rules for the regulation of the students and by-laws for the general government of the University, Provided nothing therein contained shall be inconsistent with the said laws of this State ^or^ of the United States.

Sec^t 5^th

The Trustees shall have power to establish departments for the study of any and of all of the liberal and learned professions particularly law & medicine & to institute and grant Diplomas in the same to constitute & confer the degrees of Doctor in the learned arts, the sciences & belles lettres & to confer such other & academical degrees as are usually confered[conferred] by learned institutions of the kind

Sec. 6^th

Said Trustees shall have power to institute a board of competent persons always including the faculty who shall examine such individuals as may apply & if said applicants are found to possess such knowledge of the studies pursued in said University as in the judgment of said board renders them worthy they may be considered graduates in course & shall be entitled to a diaploma[diploma] accordingly or paying such fee as the trustees shall affix which fee however shall in no case exceed the tuition bills of the full college course, said examining board may not exceed the number of ten three of whom may transact business provided one be of the faculty.

Sec 7^th

Any donation devise or bequest made for special purposes accordant with the objects of the University if the trustees shall except the same shall be faithfully & truly applied in conformity with the express condition

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or conditions of the donor or devisor The lands tenements & hereditaments to be held in perpituity in virtue of this act by said corporation shall not exceed three thousand acres Provided However that grants donations or devises in lands which from time to time shall be made to said corporation may be held for the term of ten years from the date of every such grant donation or devise at the end of which time the said lands over & above the aforenamed three thousand acres shall be sold by the Corporation & in case of neglect to sell said lands so donated ^they^ shall revert to the original donor or devisor or to the lawful heirs of the same

Sec. 8^th

The Treasurer & all other agents of the institution when required by the trustees shall give bond for the security of the Corporation in such penal sum & with such security as the board shall approve & all process against said corporation shall be by summons & service of the same shall be by leaving an attested copy with the treasurer at least thirty days before the return day thereof.

Sec. 9^th In its different departments the University shall be open to all denominations of Christians & the profession of any particular religious creed shall not be required in order to admission, but those students whose habits are idle or vicious or whose characters are immoral may be suspended or expelled at the discretion of the Trustees

Sec. 10^th

Said University shall be located at or near Warsaw in the County of Hancock State of Illinois. The Trustees shall hold at least one meeting for business annually; and the aforenamed trustees or any of them shall have power to call the first meeting at which time may be chosen a president of the board a treasurer & secretary, special meetings shall be ^may^ at any time be held by the order of the President of the University or by three trustees in case there be no president of the University, five ^of whom^ shall constitute a quorum to do business.

Sec 11^th

Should the corporation at any time act contrary to the provisions of the charter or fail to comply with the same (upon complaint being made to the Circuit Court of Hancock County) a scire facias shall issue and the Circuit Attorney shall prosecute in behalf of the people of this State for a repeal of this Charter

Sec. 12^th

This act shall be a public act & shall be constructed liberally in all courts for the purposes herein before expressed