Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-16
THE GRANT.
Founding and Endowing the Leland
Stanford, Junior University


ford. husband and wife, grantors, desiring to
promote the public welfare, by founding, en-
dowing and having maintained upon our estate
known as the Palo Alto fam and situated in the
counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara State of
California, United States of America a Univer-
sity for both sexes with the colleges schools
seminaries of learning, mechanical institutes,
museums, galleries of art and all other things
necessary and appropriate to a University of
high degree, to that end, and for that purpose,
do hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey to
Lorenzo Sawyer, James Mem. Shafter, Charles
Goodall. Alfred L. Tubbs, Francis A. Spencer,
Henry Vrooman, Charles f. Croker Timothy
Hopkins, Henry L. Dodge, Irving NJ. Scott
Stanford, Horace Davis, John f. Miller John
Boggs, T. B. Mcfarland. Isaac S. Belcher John
q. Brown, George L. Gray, n. W. Spaulding of
lam NJ Stewart, of Nevada. and Stephen j.
Field, Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, trustees, and to their successors
forever, all and singular, the following described
That certain tract of land situated in the
county of Butte, State of California, and now
commonly known and designated as Stanford S
Gridley farm.
Also that certain tract of land situated partly
in the said county of Butte. and partly in the
county OF Tehama, in said State, and now COM
monty known and designated as Stanford $
VIVA farm.
And also that certain tract of land situated
partly in the county of Santa Clara, and partly
| in the county of San Mateo and now commonly
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| Together with all the tenements, heredta-
ments and appurtenances thereunto belonging
| with the water rights, water bitches, pipes,
| fumes, canals aqueducts and reservoirs now
used in connection with either of said tracts of
| land said tracts ofland being more particularly
| described by metes and bounds in the paper
| hereto attached, marked Schedule A" and
made part hereof
To have and to hold said property. and all
| other property, real and personal, which we or
either of us, may hereafter convey or devise to
| them or their successors upon the trust that it
| shall constitute the foundation and endowment
| for the University herein provided, and upon
the trust that the principal thereof shall forever
| remain intact and that the rents issues and
profits thereof shall be devoted to the founda-
| ton and maintenance of the University hereby
| founded and endowed and to the uses and pur-
poses herein mentioned
Now, therefore, further il pursuance of said
desire, and that the trust hereby created may be
| executed according to the wishes of the grant
ors and each of them, they do hereby designate
as it is provided may be done by the Act of the
Legislature of the state OF California. approved
March 9, 1885, entitled An act to advance
| learning, the arts and sciences and TO promote
the public welfare, by providing for the convey
! ance, holding and protection of property, and
| the creation of trusts for the founding endow-
| ment, erection and maintenance within this
State of universities, colleges, schools, semina-
ries of learning. mechanical institutes, museums
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