An act to incorporate the Golconda Seminary

Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That W^m Sim, Sam^l W. Hodge, John P Hodge, Elijah B. Franklin, Philip Vineyard, John Raum, Samuel Roper[,] Newton D Clark, and Jason B. Smith, and their successors be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name of the “Trustees of the Golconda Seminary” and by that name and stile to remain and have perpetual, succession. The said seminary shall be and remain at, or near Golconda in the County of Pope and state of Illinois. The number of trustees shall not exceed nine, exclusive of the principal or presiding officer, who shall ex officio be a member of the board of trustees, but no other instructor shall be a member of said board. For the present the aforesaid individuals shall constitute the board of trustees, who shall fill the remaining vacancies at their pleasure.

Sec 2. The primary object of the said institution shall be the education of the youth of the Country, and to fit and prepare them for the various, duties of life

Sec 3. The corporate powers hereby bestowed shall be the following, viz: To have perpetual, succession: ^to^

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to make contracts; to sue, and be sued, plead and [be] impleaded and to grant and receive by their corporate names; 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 corporation, in such manner, as shall seem to the trustees, best adopted to promote the objects above mentioned, to have a common seal, and alter and change the same at pleasure; to make such by laws for the regulation of said institution as are not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this state

Sec 3. The trustees of said corporation shall have authority from time to time, to prescribe and regulate the kind and course of studies to be pursued in said seminary: to fix the rate of tuition and other academical expences; to appoint instructors and such other officers and agents as may be necessary, in managing the concerns of the institution; to define their duties; to fix their compensation, and to displace or remove them them; to erect necessary buildings[,] to purchase books, chemical and philosophical apparatus for the general management of the affairs of the Institution, and for the regulation of the conduct of the students.

Sec 4. The trustees, for the time being, in order to have ^perpetual^

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perpetual succession, shall have power to fill any vacancy, which may occur in the board, from the death, removal out of the state, resignation or other cause. A majority of the trustees for the time being, shall be a quorom to do business.

Sec 5. The trustees of said institution shall appoint a treasurer, who shall give bond with such security in such penalty, and with such conditions as the said board may prescribe

Sec 6. The said institution 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 expelled, or suspended from said institution by the trustees thereof, whose habits are idle or vicious, or whose moral character is bad are ba[d]

Sec 7. The lands, tenements, and hereditaments to be held in perpetuity by the said Corporation shall not exceed Six Hundred and forty acres: provided however, that if any donations, grants, devises in lands, shall from time to time be made to said Corporation over and above the 640 acres which may be held in perpetuity as aforesaid, the same may be recived and held by said Corporation for the period of five years from ^the^

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the date of any such donation, grant or devise, at the end of which time, if the lands shall not have been sold by said corporation, then and in that case the said lands so donated, granted or devised, shall revert to the doner[,] grantor[,] or the heirs of the deviser of the same