The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-04-08
~ CONSTITUTION OF THE
MICHIGAN SETTLEMENT IN KANSAS.
PREAMBLE 81

PREAMBLE. a.
The undersigned, intending TO cmigrate to
the Territory of Kansas, and believing that,
under the Providenccl Of God, all rational
prosperity depends upon knowledge, morali-
ty, virtue, industry and the maintenance of
Liberty, agree to associate for mutual aid and
protection, and to abide by the following
CONSTITUTION:
Article l. This Association shall be called
the Michigan Settlement in Kansas. ga
Art. III. The objects of this Association
LIST. To secure to its members homes of
comfort and fields of enterprise in Kansas;
I'd. To promote Morality, Temperance, Ag-
riculturc, Education, such Mechanic Arts as
can be advantageously introduced, to uphold
Liberty and oppose the continuation or intro
duction of Slavery in Kansas in all lawful
ways, and TO aid in tho enactment OF right
eous laws
Art. 3. Any person of good moral charac-
ter and strictly industrious and temperate,
male or female, desiring to become citizen of
Kansas, may become a member of this asso-
citation by signing its Constitution, and if a
male adult, by paying three dollars into its
Treasury
p"Art. A. To protect its members from the
imposition Of spectators and monopolists, the
association shall, to the extent hereinafter
mentioned, bc conducted on the mutual joint
stock principle, and shall raise sufficis mt funds
to start with efficient nj chinery, implements
and provisions.
Art. s. The Capital Stock Of the Associ-
alton shall consist of al the subscriptions, do
nations, gifts, lcgacies and bequests, made to
it both by its members and others. When
any member shall receive out of the capital
stock any appropriation for Equipments,
Clothing Provisions, Emigration or any 9th
or purpose, he shall be required to give the
Treasurer of the Trustees of the College here
ini fter mentioned, note for such appropria-
ton, on interest at ten per cent, payable in
three annual instalmcnts, to be secured by
properly guaranteed pledge on all that portion
of his claim to land in Karsas, which shall
exceed one hundred and sixty acres. The
money arising from said notes when paid.
shall DO applied by said Treasurer under di-
rcction of said Trustees, to the entering of
public lands in Kansas, to be decided in trust
to twelve Trustees of College, to be erected
within the limits of the settlement of said
Association. Said Trustees to be elected by
said Association MS soon as NAV be, after its or-
ganization, and to be incorporated by an Act
of the Legislature of Kansas, for tho purpose
set forth in the Constitution. All the rcvc-
nue. arising from said lands so entered, shall
be forever applied by SAID Trustees to the es-
tablshment and maintenance of n College
and Preparatory School. - Said College shall
comprehend all departments of Literature and
Science usually taught in the Colleges and
Universities of the United States. Said Col
lcge and Preparatory School shall always be
open to all inhabi ants of a good moral char
aetcr, of Kansas, and free of Tuition to all
children of the members of this Association
Art. g. The land in Kansas to be taken by
the members of this Association, on its arri-
val, shall be measured out in parcels equal to
one parcel of which
each member, male or female, above fifteen
years of age, shall be entitled, and said par
cells shall be styled claims. If there be a
choice in said lands each member shall be en-
titled to bid for choice at public auction.
Ono square mile or more, rs the Associa-
ton shall determine, of said land shall be Sc
lected for Town, divided into lots of such
size as the Association shall direct, the mini
mum price of which lots shall be five dollars
to each member of the Association, and for
choice Of which each member shall be cnti-
tied to bid as in the choice Of claims. The
money arising from the sale Of Town Lots and
choice of claims, shall, by the Executive Com
mittcc, be applied for the erection or pur-
chase of Saw Mill and Grist Mill, to be
owned by the Association. Each member
shall be protected and bound to protect all
others, in their claims to land.
Art. z. The Officers of tho Association
shall be a President, Vice President, Sccrc-
tary, Treasurer Auditor, four Managers, and
twelve Trustees of College; all to be cho-
sen at the first meeting of the Association,
and all except the Trustees of the College to
be elected by ballot at each subsequent semi
annual meeting in January, to hold their Off
ces until removed or their successors shall have
been elected.
The President shall preside over all meet
ings of the Association, and of the Executive
I Committee, sign all documents issued by au-
thority Of either body, and all calls for their
meetings, and do all other acts appropriate
to his office. The Vice President shall per-
form the duties of President in his absence,
removal or disability. Tho Secretary shall
keep an acurate record of all the proceedings
of the Association and of the Executive Com
mittee, conduct tile correspondence Of both,
sign all their official documents, notify their
meetings, and perform all other duties appro-
pirate to his office. He shall be entitled to
such compensation ms tho Executive Com
mittec shall determine. The Treasurer shall
receive and safely keep on deposit all moneys
and other property of the Association cntrus-
ted to him, and pay them out'as directed by
vote Of the Executive Committee. He shall
be required to give bonds and securities to
the Auditor of the Association in double the
sums entrusted to his care; said securities to
be approved by the President and Secretary
of the Association, who may at any time re-
qure new bonds and securities; and at each
semi.ann,lal meeting tho Treasurer shall make