Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Reverend Charles Adams, Rev. Robert D. Taylor, Elisha Gillis, Stephen Conkling, Rev. David Edwards, Edgar Conkling, and David Gillis, of the State of Illinois, and those they may appoint as hereinafter expressed, and their successors in office, be, and are hereby created a body politic and corporate, to be styled and known by the name of the trustees of the “Le Roy Manual Labor University,” and by that name and style to remain and have perpetual succession.

Sec. 2. Said University shall be, and remain in or within one-fourth of a mile of the town of Le Roy, county of McLean, and State of Illinois.

Sec. 3. The object of said corporation shall be the promotion of the general interests of education embracing preparatory, collegiate and professional studies.

Sec. 4. The number of trustees for said university shall not exceed fifteen, one of whom shall be president of the institution, and also of the board of trustees; for the present the above named individuals shall constitute the board of trustees who shall fill the remaining vacancies at their discretion.

Sec. 5. The trustees in order to have perpetual succession, shall have power to fill any vacancy, which may occur in the board by death, resignation, removal, or any other cause. They shall also elect one of their own number to act as secretary, who shall keep a faithful and correct record of all the proceedings of said trustees. They shall also elect one of their own number to act as treasurer of the institution, who shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, give such bonds for the faithful performance of his duties as the trustees shall require. And all proceedings in law against said incorporation shall be by summons; and service of the same shall be by leaving an attested copy with the treasurer of the institution at least thirty days before the return day thereof.

Sec. 6. Said trustees shall meet annually or oftener if they think necessary, in the town of Le Roy, or at the university; a majority of the trustees for the time being shall be a quorum to do business. The president of the board of trustees shall have full power to call special meetings of said trustees, and it shall be his duty upon the request of three of them to do the same; but upon any called meetings ten days general notice shall be given by the president, previous to the meeting, and he shall preside over all the meetings of the board when present.

Sec. 7. The said trustees shall have the power from time to time of electing by ballot, all the officers, instructors, instructresses, managers and servants for said university, and shall be competent in law or equity to take to themselves and their successors in office, in their said corporate name, any estate,

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real or personal or mixed, by the gift, grant, bargain and sale, conveyance, will, demise or bequest of any person or persons whomsoever, and the said estate whether real or personal, to grant, bargain, sell, convey, demise, let, place out on interest, or otherwise dispose of for the use of said university, in such manner as shall seem to them most beneficial; said trustees shall also faithfully apply all monies or property, real or personal, belonging to or donated to said university, according to their best judgments, in erecting and completing a suitable building or buildings, supporting the necessary officers, instructors, managers, and servants, and procuring all necessary publications, philosophical and other apparatus, for the use, convenience and success of said university: Provided nevertheless, That in case any donation, devise or bequest shall be made for particular purposes, accordant with the design of the university, and the corporation shall accept of the same, every donation, devise, or bequest shall be applied in conformity with the express conditions of the devisor or donor.

Sec. 8. Said trustees shall also have the power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, to have a common seal, to alter and change the same at pleasure, to make contracts, to do and perform all acts necessary for the attainment of said object, to make such by-laws for its regulations, as are not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States or of this State, and to confer on such persons as may be considered worthy, such degrees as are usually conferred by similar institutions.

Sec. 9. The trustees for the time being shall have power to remove any trustee from his office of trustee for any dishonorable or criminal conduct: Provided, That such removal shall not take place without giving to such trustee notice of the charges exhibited against him, and an opportunity of defending himself before the board, nor unless that two-thirds of the whole number of trustees for the time being shall concur in such removal.

Sec . 10. The said university 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 institution, by the trustees thereof, whose habits are idle or vicious, or whose moral character is bad.

Sec. 11. The lands, tenements and hereditaments, to be held in perpetuity by virtue of this act, shall not exceed two sections, or six hundred and forty acres, except such as are for the university building, and necessary appurtenances: Provided however, That if donations, grants or devices in lands 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 ten years from the date of such donation, grant or devise, at the end of which time, if

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said lands, over and above six hundred and forty acres, shall not have been sold by the said corporation, then and in that case the said land so donated, granted, or devised shall revert to the donor or grantor, or to the heirs of the same.2

Approved, February 25, 1841.3