Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-10-27


AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE UNIvFR-
SITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRI-
| CULTURAL COLLEGE.
II is hereby enacted by the General ASSEMBLY Of
the State Of VermoHf, as foiiotrs:
Sec. /. The University Of Vermont and the
Vermont Agricultural College. with such other
| corporations as may here after become united
Herewith, are hereby united and constituted a
body corporate by the name Of the university
OF Vermont and State Agricultural College for
the purpose of carrying out the objects contem-
plated jim their respective charters, and as
such shall be and remain a body corporate for
ever, and as such may hold and convey real and
personal estate, have a common seal, and have
all the rights and powers incident TO corpora
| tons.
Sec. 2. Each of the two institutions hereby
united shall, on or before the fifteenth day of
November next, elect by ballot nine Of their
number. who, with their successors, shall there
after constitute its Board of Trustees. and like
wise constitute part of the Board of Trustees
OF the corporation hereby created. and shall have
the power, and it shall be their duty, by ballot
among their own number, to elect successors to
fill any vacancies in their number. and all the
Trustees so elected, and their SUCCESSORS shall,
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oficio member, constitute an eentire Board of
Trustees Of the corporation hereby created, who
shall have the entire management and control Of
its property and affairs, and in all things relst-
ing thereto, except in the elections TO fill vacan
cies, as aforesaid, shall act together Jointly as
one entire Board of Trustees propided. that all
future elections or appointments 10 said Board
of Trustees shall be made with sp, cial reference
TO preventing any religious UNCONVENTIONAL pre-
ponderance in said board.
Sec. 9. Said Board of Trustees, majority Of
whom may constitute quorum for the iransac-
ton of business, may confer such honors and |
degrees Ms are usually given in Colleges and |
Universities, and any other appropriate degrees. |
and may from time to time. as occasion may re- |
quire, elect President, also Secretary, Trea- |
suTer, Librarian, Professors, Instructors, and |
any other necessary officers, and prescribe their
duties, salaries and term Of Office, and NAV make
all Necessary by laws aid regulations for the
government of themselves and others connected
with the institution, not inconsistent with the
provisions Of this act, and therein prescribe the
terms of admission, Rates of tuition, modes of
study aud course of instruction, including any
proper regulations for uniform, discipline, and
military drill, as well as for experimental and
principal instruction in the different branches of
agricultural labor. GOODS" i'
Sec. 4. Said Board Of Trustees shall h4ye the
right to use. control, sell, or dispos all the
real estate and personal properly now belonging
TO the University Of Vermont, and belonging to
any other institution at the time of its union, if
such un,n ehall be made with this corporation
sgreesbly 10 this act, subject, however, to the
payment of any debt of such institutions exist
ing at the tile Of such union, and subject to
any trusts, duties and obligations connected
herewith, aud shall be entitled to receive and
use, for the purpose aforesaid, the rents and
uses of any Of the Aforesaid lands. including I
he rents and uses of all such lands ,
Is have been heretofore reserved in
my charter Of land in this State for
he use and benefit of any college, and may have
he same rights in respect TO said lands and to
ny leases Of the same. and to any rents arising
herefrom, that said institutions respectively '
low have, and may maintain suits in their own &
anne, or in the name of such new corporation,
0 recover the same prorided; that the rights
all parties shall remain, and the same defenees 4