Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That Charles Oakley, Charles S Hempstead, Joshua Harper, Charles C Wilcox, Philip K Hanna, Osbourn;Samuel L Lamberson , Rufus J Hervey, Charles G. Thomas, Jonathan K Woodruff, Germanicus Kent, James H Gowen, Alonzo P Clapp, Lucius Wells, and William Hammond, and their 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 Rock Island University

Sec 2 The said University shall remain located at or near Hampton in the County of Rock Island The number of Trustees shall not exceed fifteen exclusive of the Chancelor or Presiding officer of said University who shall ex officio be a member of the Board of Trustees, No other instructor shall be a member of the Board

Sec 3 The object of said corporation shall be to qualify youth to engage in the several imployments and professions of society and to discharge honourbly and usefully the various duties of life

Sec 4 The said corporation shall have power to purchase[,] receive[,] and hold for the sole use and benefit of said University such personal property as may be proper and useful in promoting

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the cause of literature therein, And in its corporate name to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded answer and be answered in all Courts of Law and Equity, to have a common seal and to alter or change the same; to make such bye laws for its regulation as are not inconsistant with the Constitution and Laws of this State, or of the United States; and to confer on such persons as may be considered worthy such academical or honary degrees as are usually confered by similar institutions

Sec 5 The Trustees of said corporation shall have authority to elect a Chancelor, to regulate all financial affairs, and to fill the various officers of instruction, Provided That no person be appointed to such office except he be first nominated by the Chancelor, Provided also that nothing herein contained shall authorise the establishment of a Theological department in said University

Sec 6 The Trustees for the time being shall have powers to remove any Trustee from his office of Trustee for any dishonourable or criminal conduct; Provided That no such removal shall take place without giveing to such Trustee notice of the charges exhibited against him and an opportunity to defend himself before the Board, nor unless that two thirds of the whole number of Trustees for the time being

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shall concur in such removeal. The Trustees for the time being in order to have perpetual succession shall have power as often as a Trustee shall be removed from office, die[,] resign[,] or remove out of the State, to appoint a resident of the state to fill the vacancy thus made in the Board of Trustees. A majority of the Trustees for the time being shall be a quorum to do business

Sec 7 The Trustees shall faithfully apply the funds collected or hereafter collected according to their best Judgment in erecting suitable buildings, in supporting the necessary instructors, officers and agents in procureing books, maps, charts, globes, philosophical, chemical and other apparatus necessary to aid in the promotion of sound learning in the University Provided that in case any donation, divese[,] or bequest shall be made for particular purposes accordant with the objects of the institution and the Trustees shall accept the same every such donation, devise[,] or bequest shall be applyed in conformity with the express condition of the divisor or donor Provided also that Lands donated or devised as aforesaid shall be disposed of as required by the tenth section of this act and Provided further that the said corporation shall have

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power to purchase, and hold no greater quantity of land than six hundred and forty acres (which power is hereby confered) except the same is acquired by donation

Sec 8 The Treasurer of Said University always and all other agents when required by the Trustees, before entering upon the duties of their appointments shall give bond for the security of the corporation in such penal sum and with such securities as the Board of Trustees shall approve, and all process against the saidcorporation shall be by summons and service of the same shall be by leaving an attested copy with the Treasurer of the University at least thirty days before return day thereof

Sec 9 The said University and its preparitory departments 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 University whose habits are idle or vicious or whose moral character is bad

Sec 10 The lands, tenaments[,] and heriditaments to be held in perpituity in virtue of this act shall not exceed Six hundred and forty acres except such as are for University

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Buildings and necessary appertainances Provided however that if donations[,] grants[,] or devises in land shall from time to time be made to said corporation over and above 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 nine years from the date of such donation[,] grant[,] or devise at the end of which time if said lands over and above the said six hundred and forty acres shall not have been sold by the said corporation then and in that case the said lands so donated[,] granted[,] or devised shall revert to the donor or grantor or to the heirs of the devisor of the same