The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-04-08
HILLsDALE MICH TUESDAY, APRIL s. 1856

the service of the Association, to direct the
payment of all debts of the Association, and
to do all other acts necessary to secure the OBJ
jccts contemplated by this Constitution.
The Trustees Of the College shall have
power to elect their own SUCCESSORS to fill any
vacancy in their Board, TO remove member
from office, and to do all other acts necessary
TO carry into effect the objects of their organ
ization, at their first meeting after their arri-
val at Kansas they shall divide themselves,
into six classes, of two Trustees in each class
One class to Predetermined by lot--shall 90
out of office each successive year and the va
concies thus created shall be filled by ballot,
shall unless removed sooner by vote of the
Board continue in Office, six years, and two
trustees shall be elected at each annual meet
ing.. They shall rs soon as possible after their
arrival in Kansas procure an act of the Leg
isaturc Incorporating them into body corpo-
ratio and polite, for tho purpose intended in
this Constitution
Art. &. The Association shall hold a semi
annual meeting on the----day of January
and Of July each year, to hear the Reports
OF the Executive Committee, Treasurer and
Auditor, aud to transact any other business
which may come before it; ut which any 9TH
er alteration may be made in this Constitu-
tion, Except in the provisions relating to
Mills, College and Preparatory School,) by n
vote OF two thirds of the members of the
Association, above twcnty-onc years ofage re-
siding in the settlement. Provided such inten-
ded amendments shall have been Printed in a
newspaper published in the settlement, or
posted in writing in three of the most public
places thereof, at least six successive weeks
prior to such meeting. Special meetings may
at any timc be held, on the appointment of
three officers or twelve members of the Asso-
citation, by publishing in a newspaper p9b-
lished in the settlement, or posting in writing
in six public places, notice thereof for three
successive weeks previously AT the meet
ing in January its officers shall be elected.
Art. 8. The Provisional Committee, the
names of whose members are attached to this
Constitution, shall take measures to procure,
in behalf Of the enterprise, subscriptions and
donations, and to apply out of them, what
may be necessary to purchase suitable equip
ments, machinery, implements and provisions
for the Association; and they shall adopt all
proper means to hasten and facilitate the en-
igration. Said Provisional Committee shall
also dispatch three suitable persons MS soon as
it shall think to Kansas to select q suitable
location for the settlement
Art. 10. 1t shall be the duty Of members
of the Association to call public attention to
the enterprise; and when commissioned by
the Provisional Committee to collect subscrip-
tions and donations for the Association; and
to report once week to the Provisional Sec
retary, the results of their labos. Immedi-
ately after one hundred persons, fifty to be
male adults,) intending to cmigrate to Kan
sas, shall have become members of the Asso-
citation, there shall be a meeting at such time
and place as shall be designed by the Provis-
ional Committee, to elect permanent officers,
and rs soon thereafter as suitable provisions
shall have been made, and such persons as
desire to emigrate shall have joined the Asso-
ciation the emigrants shall start for Kansas,
under the direction of the Executive Com
mittee.