The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-18
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AN ACT to incorporate the Howard University
in the District of Columbia.

AN ACT to incorporate the Howard University
in the District of Columbia
Be it enacted b. the Senate and House Of Repre-
seatatoes Of the United States Of america im Con-
gcSS assembled, That there be established, and is
hereby established, in the District of Columbia,
university for the education of youth in the lib
eral arts and sciences, under the name, style, and
title of " the Howard University"
SEC. 3. Ind be it further enacted. That Samuel
G. POmeroy, Charles B. BoyntOn, Oliver o. How
ard, Burton G. Cook, Charles II. Howard, James
B. Hutchinson, Henry A Brewster, Benjamin F.
Morris, Danforth B. Nichols, William &. Finncy,
Roswell H. Stevens, E. NJ. Cushman, Hiram Bar
bOur, E. w. Robinson, w. +. Bascom, j. Is.
Johnson and Sias L. Loomis. be. and they are
hereby, declared to be a body polite and corpo-
rate, with perpetual succession in deed or in law
to all intents and purposes whatsoever, by the
name, style, and title OF :" the Howard Universi-
ty," by which name and title they and their sue
cessors shall be competent, at law and equity, to
take to themselves and their successors, for the
use OF said university, any estate whatsoever in
any messuage, lands. tenementS, heredltamcnts,
goods, chattels, moneys, and other effects, by
gifts devise, grant, donation, bargain, sale, con-
veyance, assurance, Or will; and the same to
grant, bargain, seil transfer, assign convey, as
sure, demise, declare to use and farm let, and to
place out on interest, for the use OF said univer-
sity, in such manner as to them, or majority OF
said university, in such manner as to them, or
majority of them, shall be deemed most benehc-
ial to said institution; and to receive the same,
their rents, issues, and profits, income and inter
est, and to apply the same for the proper use and
benefit OF said university; and by the same name
to sue and be sued, to implead and be imple-
a]ed in any courts or law and equity, in all man.
ner OF suits, actions, and proceedings whatsoever,
and generally by and in the same name to do and
transact all and every the business touching or
concerning the premises: P.opided, That the
same do not exceed the value of fifty thousand
dollars net annual income, over and above and
exclusive of the receipts for the education and
support of the students of said university.
SEC ). And be 1t further enacted, That the
first meeting of said cOrporatorS shall be holden
at the time and place at which majority OF the
persons herein above named shall assemble for
that purpose and six days notice shall be Civ
en- each OF said cOrporators, at which meeting
said corporatOrS, may enact bylaws not inconsls-
tent with the laws of the United States regula-
ting the government OF the corporation.
SEC. f. aud be it fiuther enacted, That the
government of the university shall be veste ] in
u board of trustees of not less than thirteen
members, who shall be elected by the corpora
tors at their first meeting. Said board OF trus-
tees shall have perpetual succession i'll decd or
in law, and in them shall be vested the power
hereinbcfore granted to the incorporation. They
shall adopt common seal, which they may alle
at pleasure, under and by which all deeds, diplo-
mas, and acts of university shall pass and be au-
thenticated. They shall elect president, sec
retary, and treasurer The treasurer shall give
such bonds as the boaId of trustees may direct.
The said board shall also appoint the professors
and tutors, prescribing the number, and deter
mining the amount of their respective salaries.
They shall also appoint such other officers,
agents, or employees, as the wants of the unlver-
sty may from time to time demand in all cases
fixing their compensation. All meetings OF said
board may be called in such manner as the trus-
tees shall prescribe, and nine of them so assem-
blcd shall constitute a quOrym to do business,
and less number may adjourn from time to
time.
SEC. 5. Ind be it f,tJtheF enacted, That the
university shall consist of the following depart
ments and such others as the board of trustees
may establish First, normal; second, collegi-
ate third theological; fourth law fifth, medi-
cine; sixth, agriculture.
SEC g. and be IL further enacted. That the i'm
mediate government OF the several departments,
subject to the control of the trustees, shall be in
trusted to their respective faculties, but the trus-
tees shall regulate the course of instruction, pre-
scribe with the advice OF the professors, the nee
cssary books, confer such degrees, and grant
such diplomas az are usually conferred and grant
ed in other universities.
SEC T. And be it titrther enacted, That the board
of trustees shall have power to remove any pro-
fcssor or tutor other officers connected with
the institution when in their Judgment, the inter
est nf the university shall require it.
SEC 8. Aud be 1t further enacted That the
board of trustees shall publish annual report,
making an exhibit of the affairs of the university.
SEC. 9. Ind be it f,either eItdcted, That no mis-
nOmer of the said corporation shall defeat or an
null any donation, gift, grant, devise, or bequest
to or from the said corporation.
SEC. 10. And be ii further enacted That the
said corporation shall not employ its funds or in
come or any part thereof, in banking operations
or for any purpose or object other than those
pressed in the first section of this act and that
nothing in this act contained shall be so constru-
ed as to prevent Congress from alteIing, amend
ing, or repeating the same.
Approved, March = 1867.