Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-08

quired by the act Of Congress, herein referred
to, and the Legislature may annually sp-
point board of Visitors. who may annually ex-
anime the affairs of said corporation.
SEC. Q. The permanent location of the lnsti-
tuition hereby created shall be in Burlington, In
said State Of Vermont, and the first MEETING Of
the Board Of Trustees shall be there held on the
10th day of November next, at O'Clock, P. NJ,
or if such meeting shall not be held at that time,
il shall be held at such other time and place as
the Governor of this State may appoint, seasOna-
bic notice Of said appointment having been first
given to each of the Trustees or corpOratOrs Of
the Vermont University and Vermont Agricultu-
raj College.
SIC 10. The President and Fellows Of Mid
dlebury College and the Norwich University or
either of them, may hereafter with the assent
and concurrence by vote of majority Of each Of
the nine Trustees elected as aforesaid, and their
successors, become incorporated and united with
the corporation hereby created, by vote of their
said corporations at any meeting legally warned
and holden, and by leaving for Record, in the
Office of the Secretary of the State, true and at
tested copy of such vote or votes, and of all the
proceedings Of the meeting or meetings at which
the votes aforesaid were passed, and causing the
same to be recorded in said office.
SIC II. If at any time the corporation here
by created shall fail substantially to carry out
the provisions and requirements Of this act, the
Supreme Court Of this State may, at any stated
Session thereof, having first given due no
tice to said corporation, annul and vacate this
charter, and in such case. or in case said corpo-
ration shall otherwise be dissolved, said Supreme
0urt may, on application, order and decree
that this income thereafter to be derived from
the proceeds of the sale of said land scrip in the
hands Of the State Treasurer as Aforesaid, togo
ther with such amount As may have been paid
over by said Treasurer for the purpose Of an eI-
perimental farm. shall revert to said Agricultu-
raj College and all the other property aud ef-
fects, wuich. at the time Of said union, belonged
to said other institution. shall revert to and
be the property Of the other institution or inst-
tutions, which shall have been united and incor-
porsted by or in pursuance Of this act, and in
case more than one such other institution shall
have been united, such other property shall re-
vert to them separately, such specific property
J., o,.h ne all ,o,r. sL,u aJ;rI,a arj Ia.re.
having reference in making such decree to what
was originally owned or contributed by each
Provided that in respect to any property or
funds hereafter acquired by said new corporation
by gift, grant, bequest or otherwise, the same
shall be awarded and distributed to each Of the
institutions hereby incorporated or hereafter
united, in such manner as said Court shall deem
just and equitable, having reference to the man
ner the same was acquired, and to any specific
trusts, or expressed intention Of any donors,
msde a; the time the same was acquired. And
for the purposes aforesaid well for all other
purposes, the said several corporations, which
shall have been united by virtue Of this act,
shall be deemed and treated as having continued
in life, and the several Trustees VIII ch shall have
been elected by each, at the time they were
united, and their successors, shall be deemed and
created TO have been since the time Of their cleo
tons, the Trustees Of their respective institu-
tons, As well as Trustees Of the united corpora
ton, and as such Trustees may receive the pro-
perty and effects, which may revert to their res
pective corporations by such decree Of court, and
they and their successors. whom they may here
after appoint, may continue and manage thesf-
fairs Of their respective corporations thereafter
in the same manner as the Trustees Of each
might have done before they were united az
aforesaid.
SIC. l.. This act shall take effect whenever
the two corporations hereby united shall at any
meeting duly warned, vote to accept the same,
and to surrender and relinquish to the corpora
ton hereby created. all the property belonging
to them, whether real or personal. and all the
rents. profits and income, therefrom arising. in
cluding said proceeds from the sale Of said land
scrip, for the purpose, and subject to all the
rights, trusts and conditions as in this act pro
vided. And it shall be the duty Of each Of said
corporations to cause a copy Ofthe record Of such
votes, duly certified by the Secretaries of these
respective corporations to be left for record and
duly recorded in the officeof the Secretary of
State, whereupon by virtue Of such votes, such
property, rents, profits and income shall become
the property of the corporation hereby created,
for the purposes, and subject to the rights,
trusts and conditions Aforesaid, and said proper
,y and the property hereafter acquired by the
corporation hereby created, shall be subject to
all the conditions, immunities and exemptions
now pertaining to the property now held by said
University Of Vermont
SEC. Is. All of an act entitled "An Act to
establish the Vermont Agricultural College
approved Nov %, 1864, which is inconsistent
with the provisions of this act, is hereby 70
pealed.
Approved Nov. .. 1865.