Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-07-26
No. o..
AN ACT

Incorporating the New Orleans University
SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives OF the state
of Louisiana i'm General Assembly COW eh-
ed, That J. G. Hartzcll, j. 3. Leavitt, SSrus
Busy, Emperor Williams, II: Y; Dlpp,e
John Baldwin, George Dardis, W. N. Dai ~
Roothbv. IN. Vance, Pierre Landry, w.
q Brown. ]. L. J. Barth, and successors,
are hereby constituted board corl'crs.e
and nolitic under the name and title OF tnc
New Orleans University, and they anu tno''
.uccesaors shall be and remain Doard cor
norate under that name forever, anu ~
Int name sball have power and authority
ro confrsrt- sue and be sued, make and use
ccrDorafe seal and alter the same ut pleas,
ure. 10 hold, purchase and convey as Wen
% mortgage or hypOthecate property reai,
personal and mixed; to elect from ,neir
own number o president, vice presideni,
secretary and treasurer, together WIN SUCH
other officers % may be founa hecessai.
and to declare the duties ana tenure oi
their respective offices; and also TO re-
move any trustee from the corporation
when, In their Judgment, ne shaii NO rem
Sered ;ncanable In any manner of discharg-
inc t. duties of his Office, or shall neglect
az ref,se to perform the same, and to MI
Ali vacancies in said corporation, to make
such by.laws as they may judge necessary
foc the purpose of said board and whatever
institutions they may have under their
control.
SIC. 2. Belt further enacted, ETC., That the
persons herein before named shall constl-
tute the first board of trustees, and IN them
and their successors all power OF SAID cor
poration il hereby vested; and at the flrst
sneetinp of said board after the approval OF
this act said trustees shall by lot be diyid-
cd into three classes of FIVE each the first
,ciasa shall hold office until the first regular
meeting of the board in 1874, and then,
and at the first regular meeting OF each
wear thereafter, said board OF trustees snaii
elect by ballot, five trustees, who snai,
hold their offices for three years, or until
their successors are elected, PROVIDED;
that at no time less than two-thirds OF
said hoard If trustees be members vi 'ne
Methodist Episcopal Church. r,...
SEC. 3. Be Il further enacted, eW.' n -.
,.sS cor-.r,t;ou shall have its donicile I'D
Na~ Oceans parish of Orleans, State OF Lou.
;siana. and the president of said hoard shall
hs the officer mpon whom legal citations
hail he seryetl. Said corporation shall
have nower 70 establish an institution OF
isar,ipc IN be known as the New orleans
I,niversitv and to be located IN or near
on. ,.;fv M New Orleans, State OF Louisiana,
and 70 connect Herewith such preparatory
schooIs seminaries or colleges, with power
n or0anize and control the said, as sald
hoord of trustees may establish, In any OF
tho .everal marshes of said State, to estab-
i;sb Loards of instruction in all departments
of science and the arts in said university,
"a soon "A practicable, to elect pfesldeh.,
of said university, and such professors ana
other university officers as they may Judge
necessary. and also to elect principals anu
associate teachers in any preparatory soho -,
or seminary which may be estaoi,sneu ~
accordance with this act, ana 10 ueeo,n a;
the duties, salaries, emOlumen's, resy ssn
bilities and terms of their Respective one-s'
to confer such degrees, regular anu n i.'a;'a
nv, rs are conferred by similar his,i.u. .Ln
IN the limited States: provided, neverthe-
less that mo degree shall be conferred With
ont the recommendation Of the appropriate
faculty and the approval ofthe trustees;
SEC. 4, Be it further enacted, etc, Ins'
students regularly matriculated ana canul-
dates for degrees of any OF the departments -,
shall oe required to pursue a course y,
courses of study similar to those adopteu
in other American colleges and universities
that the degree of Bactel of Laws, OF
Doctor of Medicine, granted by the univer'
sity. shall authorize the person on whonl
IL Is conferred to practice law, physic ano
.surgery in this State, and that the depart.
ment of medicine shah have as all tunes
free access to the Charity Hospital, OF new
Orleans, for the purpose OF anording medi
cal students illustrations OF the supJec'
Taught. r..
SEC. S. Be il further enacted, ETC., Ina'
said corporation, in the matter OF receiving
and instructing students, shall make nc
distinction rs to race, color, sex or religl
GUS belief, except in the department OF the
olopy, In which the professors shall Dc
members of, and the instructions be IN ac
cordance with the doctrines of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church. -
Sec. 6. Be il further enacted, ETC., Thai
this act shall take effect from and after lt'
passage.
[Siened1 CHARLES W. LOWELL,
Speaker of the House of Repres entatives.
Sioned1 c.. G.. ANTOINE,
Lieutenant Governor and President OF the
Senate.
Approved March %, 1879.
(Signed] WILLIAM P. KELLOGG,
Governor Of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
p. G. DEsLONpE,
Secretary of State.