Sec. [Section]1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Levi Harlan, Elijah Sills, Thomas Kersey, R. C Brown and Edward G Minor, be and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic by the name and style of the Trustees of the Winchester Common and preparatory School, and by that name and style to have perpetual succession, to make contracts to sue, and be sued, to plead and be impleaded to grant and receive by its corporate name, and to do all such things as a natural person may, acquire purchase, or sell property, real or personal, and in all lawful ways, to use, manage and dispose of the same, may have a common seal, and may alter or change the same at pleasure, and may make by Laws for its regulation not inconsistent with the constitution of the United States or of this State.

Sec 2. Be it further enacted That Zalmon Carter, D^r Metcalf, John Kirkpatrick, Ira Rowen, and Barlem Brown, be and they are hereby created a body Corporate and Politic by the name and style of [?] Trustees of the Winchester Female Seminary, and by such name and style shall have the same powers and previleges that are given to the Trustees appointed and named in the first section of this act.

Sec 3. The Trustees of said Institution shall have authority from time to time to prescribe the [course of] studies to be pursued in said Institutions, [to fix the] rate of tuition and expenses, to appoint and employ Instructors, and such other officers, and agents, as they

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consider necessary to the proper management of the Institutions, define their duties, and fix their compensation and at the pleasure of a majority of the Trustees displace or remove them.

Sec 4 The above Institutions shall be located in the incorporate limits of the Town of Winchester, Scott County Illinois, on such lot, or lots, as may be chosen by a majority of the Trustees of each Institution separately.

Sec 5. The Trustees of the Schools appointed [by] this act, shall hold their Offices for one year after the organization of said school and until their successors are chosen. The Trustees of the town of Winchester, shall define and prescribe the manner of electing Trustees for said schools forever after, and fix the tenure of their office.

Sec 6. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent either of the above named Institutions from receiving their proper proportion of money appropriated by law, for common School purposes, and the Trustees named in the first and second section of this act, and their successors in Office, shall do and perform all acts required by law of the Trustees of Common Schools.

Sec 7. The Trustees of the Town of Winchester may levy and collect a tax not exceeding one per cent, on all taxable property in said Town to be applied to purposes of education, as said Trustees shall from time to time direct. Provided that before any tax can be levied as aforesaid

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and on application of twelve Citizens of the town, the Trustees shall cause an election to be held, where each householder ^inhabitant^ residing within the incorporate limits of said town, may have the privilege of voting for or against a tax, and if a majority of two thirds of the votes given at said election shall be in favour of a tax, then and in this case the Trustees may levy a tax and in no other.

Sec. 8. The Trustees of the Town shall prescribe the time, place and manner, of holding and conducting said election, and the returns of the same, and make it a matter of record, they shall also provide for the collection, safe keeping and distribution of the tax collected for school purposes, they may apportion the money raised by tax to the Schools incorporated by this tax act exclusively, or to them and others, as may best suit the convenience and interest of the Citizens ^inhabitants^ of the town.

Sec. 9. The Trustees of the town are hereby authorized and empowered, to enact and ordain, such acts and ordinances, in their incorporate capacity as shall be necessary to carry the provisions of this act into effect, and for the furtherance of the cause of education, such ordinance not to be inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or of this State.