All bring of full age and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, are hereby constituted a body iohlic and corporate by the name and style of Central University of China for the purpose of procuring, accepting, holding, investing and applying money, and funds and properties both real and personal, for the founding and establishing, and perpetually maintaining in the Province of Kiangsu, Empire of China, a university with associated schools and colleges, to be conducted under the auspices and in agreement with the approved and recognized evangelical standards of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The incorporators aforesaid, their associates and successors, who shall possess the qualifications hereinbefore required shall constitute a Board of Trustees. The board of trustees may have the power by and with the consent of the Board of Missions, of Methodist Episcopal Church, South to increase the number of Trustees to thirty three, if they deem the interest of the corporation requires such increase. And first of any subsequent Board of Directors may have the power to elect other members, who, on acceptance of membership, shall become corporators equally with the original corporators. The term of all officers may be fixed by the by-laws, the said term not, however, to exceed three years.
All officers hold over until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
A violation of any of provisions of this charter, shall subject the corporation to dissolution at the instance of the State. We, the undersigned, apply to the State of Tennessee, by virtue of the laws of the land, for a Charter of Incorporation for the purposes and with the powers, etc., declared in the foregoing instrument. Witness my hand at office this 13th , day of June 1901. P. A. Shelton Clerk I, Jno W. Morton, Secretary of State, do certify that this charter which certificate attached the forgoing of which are three copies, were received and certified by me, this 24th of June 1901. Witness our hands This 5th day of Oct. 1907 D. L. Anderson A. W. Wilson W. B. Burke A. P. Parker W. B. Nance H. T. Reed W. H. Park Jno.