The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-10-22
AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER
OF
GRENADA COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE.

Be it known that j. r.. Bingham,
President of the Board of Trustees of
Grenada Collegiate Institute, and j.
G. Park, Secretary, representing the
Board of Trustees, successors of the
original incorporators, hereby apply
for such amendment of the charter of
said institution. enacted by the Leg
islature Of the State of Mississippi and
approved March the eighth, eighteen
hundred e%ighty-f0ur, al will make it
read as follows:
SECTION /. This corporation, known
by the name Of Grenada Collegiate In
stitute, located in the town OF Grena-
da, in the State Of Mississippi, estab-
IiShed for the training and education
of educable white children of either
or both sexes, shall in the future bear
the name of Grenada College.
SECTION 2. The present Board Of
Trustees and their successors in Office
are and arc hereby created a body cor
porate for a period of fifteen years,
and by its corporate name above may
sue and be sued, plead and be implead-
CIt III all dOJlOl1O3 OuiOC Qu0 pidI1tS
and matters whatsoever which are in
cident to bodies corporate and polite,
and not. repugnant to the constitution
and laws of this State and the United
States.
SECTION 8. This corporation is au-
thorized and empowered to acquire by
purchase or donation real, personal, or
mixed property for purposes of equip
ment and endowment for use in the
conduct of said institution.
SECTION 4. This corporation is also
empowered TO borrow money for pur-
poses of equipment, of repairs and inn
provement upon, and addition to the
property of this corporation, and to
secure the payment of the same by
encumbrance upon any or all OF its
property.
SECTION 5. The Trustees Of this
corporation shall have power to elect
their officers, appoint their agents,
employ the president of the school,
and TO make all rules, bylaws and reg
ulationS for their government and for
the government of the school and
property, and the regulation of all
other questions which in their judg-
ment will promote the interest of said
corporation: Provided, however, that
said rules, bylaws and regulations are
not in any way repugnant to this
charter or the laws of this State or
the United States.
SECTION g.. The Trustees Of said
corporation shall have power To eStab-
lish a curriculum for the pupils of this
school, and to grant to each and every
pupil Of the school, who, in their
Judgment, has completed the said cur
riculum, a diploma bearing the name
OF the Trustees and the seal of the
corporation; and to confer also such
degrees of literary honor as is usual
to such institutions of learning.
SECTION Z. Any vacancy that shall
occur in the Board of Trustees, either
by death or otherwise, shall be filed
by the appointing authority of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South,
in the North Mississippi Conference.
SECTION s.. The said corporation
may have a seal with such design and
of such device as the Board Of Trus-
tees may prescribe.
SECTION .. All the property now
owned and hereafter acquired by said
corporation, or held in trust for its
use and benefit, and ali bonds issued
for the relief and benefit of said cor
poration shall he exempt from taxa
tion.
SECTION 10. This charter, as
amended, shall take effect and be in
force from and after It's approval.
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