In force, Feb.[February] 27, 1839.
AN ACT to incorporate the Fairfield Institute.
1Body politic.
Name & style.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Thomas Linthicum, Rigdon B. Slocum, Caleb Williams, Thomas A. Wood, Jeffrey Robinson, Nicholas N. Smith, Jefferson L. Warmack, Andrew C. Wright, Charles Wood, L. J. S. Turney, Joseph Wilson, Charles L. Carter, A. B. Turney, William Berry, Edward R. Puckett, T. J. McMackin, H. W. Gaston, Samuel Willson, J. W. Barnhill, William N. Borah, E. Wright, Jahalon Tyler, J. S. T. C. Stuart, C. J. Ridgeway, David Wright, Jonathan Douglass, D. Turney, J. M. Turney, J. J. R. Turney, William F. Turney, W. E. McMackin, Stephen C. Wright, S. C. McLin, William L. Gash, J. A[.] Robinson, James Butler, senior, F. McCown, Jacob H. Love, James Ewing, Moses Turney, Phineas Whitacer, A. J. Armstrong, William White, Asa Bowen, R. L. Boggs, J. C. Bennet, Edward R. Selby, James Crews, Andrew Wilson, Hugh Stuart, Wesley Staton, G. T. Snodgrass, J. G. Barkley, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby, created, constituted,
and declared to be a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of “The Fairfield institute;” and by that name they shall have perpetual succession, with all and singular the
rights and privileges, powers and prerogatives, which appertain to other incorporated
institutions of learning in this State.
Library.
By-laws.
Sec. 2. The incorporation shall include a library, an athenæum, a lyceum, and such other collateral institutions,
for public instruction and the general diffusion of useful knowledge, as they may
consider necessary; and pass all such by-laws, rules, and ordinances, not repugnant to, nor inconsistent with, the constitution
and laws of the United States or of this State, for the government, welfare, and prosperity of the same, and for the encouragement
of learning, as they may think necessary and proper.
Time and place of organization.
Proviso.
Sec. 3. The corporators shall meet and organize at Fairfield, Wayne county, on the first Monday in March, 1839, or within six months thereafter; at which time
the Fairfield Library Company shall be merged in the Fairfield Institute; and
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all laws and parts of laws in relation to said library shall be, and are hereby, repealed from and after said day of organization: Provided the said Fairfield Library Society shall agree to relinquish their right in said library, and accept of this act of incorporation, excepting the by-laws of said Library Company; which shall remain in force until repealed by the institute.
Approved, February 27, 1839.
1On February 2, 1839, Jeffrey Robinson introduced a bill in the House of Representatives. The House read the bill twice and referred it to the committee on Education. On
February 5, the committee1 reported back the bill with an amendment. The House read the amendment and concurred.
On February 13, the House passed the bill. On February 26, the Senate passed the bill. On February 27, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 325, 347, 392, 525, 534, 550; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 331, 422, 445-46.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Incorporation Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 124-25, GA Session: 11-1