The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1873-09-13
AN ACT

Incorporating the New Orleans Uni
versity.
Section.l. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House Of Representatives
of the State of Louisiana in General
Assembly convened, That J. c. Hart
zell. J. S. Leavitt, Cyrus Busy, En-
peror Williams, II. Z. Dibble. John
Baldwin, George Dardis, v. Nj. Daily,
NJ. e. Cole, James IL Ingraham. c. w.
Boothby, j. NJ. Vance, Pierre Landry.
w. G. Brown, j, L. j. Burth, and
successors are hereby Constituted q
board corporate and polite under the
name and titled of the New Orleans
University. and they and their sue
cess"rs shall be and remain a board
corporate under that name forever.
and by that name shall have power and
authority to contract, sue and be sued,
make and use a corporate seal and alter
the same at pleasure, to hold, purchase
and convey as well as mortgage or
hypothecate property, real, personal
and mixed; to elect from their own
number president, vice president,
secretary and treasurer, together with
such other officers as may be found
necessary, and to declare the duties
and tenure of their respective offices,
end also to remove any trustee from
the corporate when, in their Judgment,
he shall be rendered incapable in any
manner of discharging the duties of
his office, or shall neglect or refuse to
perform the same, and 10 fill all vacan-
cies in said corporation, to make such
bylaws as they may judge necessary
for the purposes of said board and
whatever institutions they may have
under their control.
Sec. 2. Be il further enacted, etc.,
That the persons hereinbefore named
shall constitute the first board of trus-
tees, and in them and their successors
all powers of said corporation is here
by vested; and at the first meeting of
said board after the approval of this
act said trustees shall by lot be divided
into three classes of five each; the first
class shull hold office until the first
regular meeting of the board in 1874,
and them, and at the first regular
meeting of each year thereafter, said
board of trustees shall elect by ballot
five trustees, who shall hold their off
ces for three years, or until their sue
cessors, are elected; provided, that at
no time less than two thirds of said
board of trustees be members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Sec. 3. BE it further enacted. etc.
That said corporation shall have its
domicile in New Orleans, parish of
Orleans, State of Louisiana, and the
president of said board shall be the
officer upon whom legal citation shall
be served. Said corporation shall
have power to establish an institution
of learning to be known at the New
Orleans University, and to be located
in or near the city of New Orleans,
State of Louisiana, and to connect
Herewith such preparatory schools,
seminaries or colleges, with power to
organize and control the same, as said
board of trustees may establish, IN any
of the several parishes of said State,
TO establish boards of instruction in
all departments of science and the
arts in said university, as soon as prac-
ticable, to elect president of said
university, and such professors and
other university officers as they may
judge necessary, and also to elect
principals and associate teachers in
any preparatory schools or seminary
which may be established in accord
ance with this act, and to determine
the duties, salaries, emoluments, re-
sponsibilities and terms of their re-
speCtive Offices; to confer such de
grees. regular and honorary. as are
conferred by similar institution in the
United States: provided. nevertheless,
that no degree shall be conferred with
out the recommendation of the appro-
pirate faculty and the approval of the
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