An act establishing “Juliet Academy”

Sec[Section] 1 Be it Enacted by the people of the state of Illinois ^Represented^ in the Gen^l Assembly Represented That persons have That John Pierson, Thomas Allen, Levi Jencks, J. A. Matteson Abijah Cagwin A. W. Bowen & Mansfield Wheeler be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to receive subscriptions for shares in an academic association to be Styled the “Juliet Academy” to be located at Juliet in the County of Will.

Sec 2 The said Commissioners ^trustees to be elected as hereinafter provided^ are hereby constituted a body politic & corporate with power of suing & being sued; pleading & being impleaded, answering & being answered unto in all courts & places having competent jurisdiction in the name & style of The President The Trustees of the Juliet Academy”—and when duty organized they shall have power to open books to receive subscriptions & donations to the Capital Stocks of said Academy, to acquire hold and convey property real and personal, to have and use a common seal, to alter the same at pleasure to make and alter from time to time such bye-laws as they may deem necessary for the government and regulation of said institution and its officers and servants and property Provided Such bye laws be not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States & of this State or of this act.

Sect 3 The trustees of said institution shall consist of nine Stockholders. At the first Election three of whom shall be elected by ballot for the term of three years, other three shall be Elected for the term of two years and the other three shall be Elected to serve for the term of one year; and

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who shall continue in office until their successors are duly elected—and every year thereafter there shall be ^an^ election of three trustees held at some convenient place to be from time to time ascertained and fixed by the bye laws of the said corporation, until the said Academy is fitted for holding elections therein after which all Elections shall be held at such academy: and that any person holding more than one right or share in said academy shall be entitled to one vote for each right or share he or she shall hold in the same

Sect 4 The Stockholders of said institution shall have power to fill such vacancy or vacancies of said trustees, as may—happen by death resignation or otherwise and the said trustees shall hold the property of said institution solely for the purpose of education in said academy and not as stock for the individual benefit of themselves or any contributor to the Endowment of the same—and no particular religious faith shall be required of those who—become trustees teachers, officers, scholars or servants of said institution

Sect 5 The said institution shall be located in or within one half mile from the Des Plain River in Juliet in the County of Will in said State. and the said trustees shall be competent in law or Equity to take to themselves and their successors in office in their Said Corporate name—any

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estate real, personal or mixed, by ^the^ gift grant bargain and sale, conveyance, will, devise or bequest of any person or persons whomsoever. and the same estate whether real, personal or mixed to grant bargain, sell convey devise or place out on interest or otherwise dispose of for the use of said institution, in such manner as shall seem to them most beneficial to the institution. said trustees shall faithfully ^apply^ all funds collected or the proceeds according to their best Judgment, in erecting and completing a suitable building or buildings supporting the necessary officers instructors, instructresses and servants and procuring books maps charts globes & apparatus necessary to the success of said academy Provided nevertheless that in case any donation devise or bequest shall be made for particular purposes, accordant with the design of this institution and the Corporation shall accept the same; every donation devise or bequest shall be applied in conformity with the express Conditions of the donor or devisor

Sec^t 6 The Stockholders shall annually elect a treasurer for said institution who shall before he enters upon the duties of his office give a bond with approved security to the trustees of said Academy in such penal sum as they may require for the due and faithful performance of his duty as treasurer and in case of his death removal, refusal or neglect to serve it shall be lawful for the trustees

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of the Academy at any of their meetings to appoint another treasurer in his stead to remain in office till the expiration of the time during which his predecessor was elected

Sec^t 7 All process against the said Corporation ^ ˄ ^ shall be by summons and the service of the Same shall be by leaving an attested Copy thereof with the Treasurer or at his usual place of abode at least thirty days before the return thereof”

Sect 8 The trustees shall have power to Employ and appoint a principal for said institution and all such instructors and teachers & servants as may be necessary and to displace them as the interest of the academy may require the same, & to fill all vacancies which may happen by death or otherwise

Sect 9 The trustees shall meet annually and oftener if they think necessary in the town of Juliet and shall appoint one of their board a clerk who shall faithfully record all the proceedings of said trustees They shall elect all officers & servants by ballot and a majority of said trustees shall be sufficient in all cases to transact the business of said Corporation

Sect 10 Not over eighty ^forty^ acres of land shall be held by said academy for the sole use & occupation of the buildings & appendages—connected therewith.

Sect 11. That on the payment of twenty dollars to the treasurer every free white person shall be considered a stockholder and be entitled to one vote, and that it shall be lawful for each and every stockholder for the time being of said academy his executors administrators or assigns to give, sell devise and dispose of their respective rights or shares in said academy and such donee or purchaser shall be entitled to all the rights of the original holder.

Sect 12 William A Boardman, ^W^m Adams^ Hugh Henderson Abijah Cagwin. A. W Bowen, Joel A Mattison,, Thomas Allen, Levi Jenks Martin H Demmond—Dennis Kelly, John D, Caton, Joshua Rucker, William Peck Elisha C, Fellows, Richard Doolittle. Adison Collins and John L Wilson & Fenner Aldrich be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to solicit and receive subscriptions of Stock to said institution and give receipts for the same and when the sum of fifteen hundred dollars of stock is subscribed, said commissioners or any three of them shall be authorized to give public notice for three weeks in some public newspaper of the time of holding an election of trustees of said institution which ^first^ election shall be held at the Court House in Juliet between the hours of 12 M and 6. PM on said day. and the said Commissioners or any three of them may act as Judges of said election

Sect 13 The second Election of trustees and every subsequent one shall be held on the first Monday of January annually at the academy between the hours of 12 M & 6PM on said days.

Sect 14 Each stockholder shall be required to at or before the first Election for trustees to pay to said Commissioners five dollars of each Share by him or her subscribed and the residue in six months thereafter or the amount paid by him shall be forfeited

Sect 15 All elections for trustees shall be by ballot with the name of the voter or stockholder written on the ballot and the number of shares of stock he or she holds in said institution & which ballot after the first Election [...?] shall be given to the Treasurer or Clerk of the board of trustees—a majority of whom shall act as the board of Election

Sect 16 The said Academy when erected and in operation shall at all times be open for the use and privilege of every free White person who may wish to be instructed [t?] there if such free white person will comply with the laws and bye laws and pay the sum affixed by said trustees for the instruction of [...?] students attending there

Sect 17 Every free White person who may at any time tender the sum of twenty dollars to the treasurer of the Academy, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to accept the same and give him a certificate as a stockholder

Sect 18 If at any time the Corporation shall act violate the provisions of this charter, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to file an information in the nature of a quo warranto for the purpose of vacating this act Provided in that case ^ of vacancy ^ the trustees shall have the right of selling all the property real & personal belonging to said Corporation for the sole benefit of the Stockholders who shall be entitled to the same as soon as it is collected and shall be ^then^ considered as money paid to the use of the said Stockholders

Sect 19 That in case it should happen that an election of trustees should not be made on the any day ^when^ pursuant to this act, it ought to have been made. the said Corporation shall not for that cause be deemed to be dissolved—but that it shall be lawful on any other day to hold and make an election of trustees in such manner as shall have been regulated by the byelaws and ordinances of said Corporation.