Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-27
4 PrBLIc RENErACTIoN.
Details of Ex-Governor Stanford's Great
Educational Plan.

most remarkable instrument OF the kind
ever presented for enrolment upon the
statute books of any State or nation. While
the bill itself merely embodies the outward
legal form under which requests may be
made OF the character that he has in view,
still its wording gives some idea of the far
reaching effects of his proposed great phi
lanthrcpic scheme. 1t will be seen that one
of the leading features of the plan is 10
afford free education TO the children of de-
ceased mechanics and others who had left
no means for properly educating their of
spring. 1t also aims TO encourage pupils in
the public schools to strive toward perfec
ton by according to the more meritoriouS
all the advantages of the great institution
which he proposes 10 establish and endow.
The bill reads;
An Act 10 advance learning, the arts and sci
ences. and 10 promote the public welfare by
providing for the conveyance. holding and pro
lection OF property and the creation OF trusts for
the founding, endowment, erection and mainte-
nance within this state of universities colleges.
schools, seminarles of learning, technical insti-
tutes, museums and galleries of art.
The people OF the state of California, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, DO enact as
follows:
Section /. The provisions of this Act are to be
literally construed with Il view to effect its OBJ
jectS and promote its purposes; and in the con
struction thereof the singular number shall be
deemed TO include the plural, and the plural
shall be deemed 10 include the singular num-
Der; and the masculine gender shall be deemed
10 include the feminine
Section > ANY person desiring in his lifetime
to promote the public welfare 10y founding. en-
downing and having maintained within this state
Il university, college, school seminary of learn
ing, mechanical institute, museum OF gallery oi
art. or any or all thereof. may, to that end and
for such purpose, by grant in writing. convey TO
Il trustee or 10 any number of trustees named in
such grant and 10 their successors any prop
erty, real or personal, belonging 10 such person
and situated or being within this state py0rided.
if such person be married. and such property be
common property, such grant must be signed
and acknowledged 10y both husband and wife in
the manner provided by law in respect to con
vcyances Of real estate in other eases.
Section 3. The person making such grant may
therein designate % The nature, object and
purposes of the institution or institutions to be
founded, endowed and maintained. ~ The
name By which IL or they shall be known. 90
The powers and duties of the trustees and the
manner in which they shall account. and 10
whom. il accounting be required but such
powers shall be held 10 be exclusive of other
powers and duties which may be necessary To
enable such trustees to fully carry out the OBJ
jects of such grant. % The mode and manner
and by whom the successors 20 the trustee or trS-
tees named III the grant are to be appointed. ~
Such rules and regulations for the management
of the property conveyed as the gTantor may
the grGntor otherwise prescribe, be deemed adj
visory only. and shall not preclude such trUs-
tees from making such changes as new condi-
tons may from time to time require. i6) The
place or places where and the time when the
buildings necessary and proper for the institu-
tons shall be erected and the character and eX-
tent thereof The persons making such grant
may therein provide for all other things neces-
sary and proper TO carry out the purposes there
of and especially may such person provide forthe
trades and professions which shall be taught
in such institutions and the terms upon which
deserving scholars of the public schools OF the
various counties of this State may be admitted
to all the privileges OF such institutions as q
reward for meritorious conduct and good schol-
arship, and also for maintaining free scholar
ship for children of persons who have rendered
service to or who have died III the service of this
State and also for maintaining free scholarships
for children of mechanics, tradesmen and Ia
borerS who have died without leaving means
sufficient to give such children Il practical edU-
cation, fitting them for the useful trades or arts
and also the terms and conditions upon which
students III the public and private schools and
other deserving persons may. without cost to
themselves attend the lectures of any university
established, and also the terms and conditions
upon which the museums and art galleries and
Conservatives OF music connected with any
such institution shall be open to all deserving
persons without charge and without their be-
coming students of the institution.
Section 4. The trustee or trustees named in
such grant and their successors may, in the name
of the institution or institutions designated in
such grant, sue and defend in relation to the
trust property and in relation TO all matters af-
fecting the institution or institutions endowed
and established by such grant.
Section ). The person making such grant, BY
provision therein may eject, in relation to the
property conveyed and in relation to the cree
ton, maintenance and management Of such in
Stitution or institutions, TO perform during his
life all the duties and exercise all the powers
which by the terms of the grant are deyolved
upon the trustee or trustees therein named. If
the person making such grant and making the
election, aforesaid, be a married person, such
person may further provide that if the wife of
such person survive him, then such wife during
her life may in relation to the property con-
veyed and in relation to the erection, mainte-
nanceand management of such institution or in
sttutions, perform all the duties and exercise
ali the powers which by the terms of the grant
are devolved upon the trustee or trustees therein
named and in all such cases the powers and
duties conferred and imposed by such grant
upon The trustee or trustees therein named shall
devove upon and be exercised by the person
making such grant or by his wife, as the case
may be ; prOrided, however, that upon the death
of such person or his surviving wife as the case
may be, such powers and duties shall vest abso-
lutely in and be exercised by the trustees named
in the grant and their successors
Section 6. The person making such grant may
therein reserve the right to alter, amend or
modify the terms and conditions thereof and
the tTasts therein created in respect to any of
the matters mentioned or referred TO in subdi-
visions to g, inclusive, of Section > thereof
the life of such person or persons. of absolute
disposition over the personal property conveyed
and also over the rents, issues and profits of the
real property conveyed. without liability TO ac-
count therefor in any manner whatever and
without any liability over against the estate of
such person, and If any such person be married,
such person may IN such grant further provide
that If his wife survive him, then such wife dur
ing her life may have the same absolute power
of disposition over such personal property and
such rents issues and profits without liability TO
account therefor in any manner whatever, and
without liability over against the estate of either
OF the Spouses.
Section :. Any such grant may be executed,
acknowledged and recorded in the same man
ner as is HOW provided by law for the execution.
acknowledgment and recording Of grants of
real property.
Section s 10 suit action, or proceeding shall
he commenced or maintained by any person 70
set aside, annul or affect said conveyance, to
affect the title to the property or the right to
the possession, or to the rents issues and profits
thereof, unless the same be commenced within
two years after the date OF Hing such grant for
record nor shall any defense be made to any
suit. actions, or proceedings commenced by the
trustee or trustees named i'll said grant, or their
successors priyios, or persons holding under
them which defense involves the legality of
said grant. or affects the title to the property
thereby conveyed. or the right to the possession
of the rents, issues and profits thereof, unless
such defense is made III a suit, action, or pro
ceeding commenced within two years after
such grant was filed for record.
Section g. The property conveyed by such
grant sball not, after a lapse of two years from
the date of the filing for record of the grant be
subject to forced sale under execution, or iu-
dicial proceeding of any kind, against the
grantor or his privics unless the action under
which the execution is issued, or the proceed
ings under which the sale is ordered shall have
been commenced within two years after such
grant was filed for record. Nor shall such
property he subject to execution or forced sale
under any proceedings instituted within two
years if there be other property of the grantor
subject to execution or forced sale sufficient to
satisfy the Judgment under which the eXecu-
ton was issued or the forced sale had.
section 10. Any person or persons making any
such grant may at any time thereafter, by last
viii or testament, devise and bequeath to the
State of California all or any OF the property,
real or personal mentioned III such grant, or
| in any supplemental grant, and such devise or
bequest shall only take effect in case, from any
cause whatever, the said grant shall be an
nulled or set aside, or the trlIstS therein de-
clared shall for any reason fail. Such devise
and bequest is hereby permitted TO be made. by
way OF assurance that the wishes of the gTantor
or grautors shall be carried out, and in the
faith that the State, in case it succeeds 10 the
property, or any part thereof, will, 10 the extent
aud value of such property, carry out, in re-
spcct to the objects and purposes of any such
grant all the wishes and intentions of the
grantor or grantors
Section H. This Act shall be in force from and
after its passage.