Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-06-23
(No. $50, A.
CHAPTER 2S3 LAWS OF 1871
published June 9, 1911.
AN ACT

AN ACT
To amend chapter 129, Of the laws OF
1867, as amended by chapter 1856, Of the
laws of 1899, relating to Northwestern
university at WatertOwn, Wisconsin,
and changing its name to Northwestern
college.
The people Of the State Of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly, do
enact as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 1876, of the laws Of
1867, as amended by chapter 1885, of the
law of 1899, is amended to read: Chap
ter 129) Section 1. That John Buding,
Philip Koehler, Daniel Kusel, Henry
SEEKER, Chas GausemitZ, Ernest Myer-
hoff, George Verberg, Gottliebe Thiel,
Charles Kieckhefer, and their successors,
be and they are hereby created a body
polite and corporate, to be styled the
board Of trustees of the Northwestern x
x college, at WatertOw
Wisconsin, and by that name to remain
in perpetual succession, with full power
to sue and be sued, plead and be he i'm
pleaded: to acquire, hold and convey
property, real and personal; to have and
use a common seal; that all lands owned,
used and occupied by said corporation
for the convenience Of its buildings and
enlarging the same, not exceeding forty
acres, the library, cabinet, apparatus
and books employed in the conducting of
said college, together with
all endowment funds which they may
have, hold or receive, shall be exempt
from taxation. Provided, that the
board of trustees shall be subject to the
regulations, rules and general super
vision of the German Evangelical Lu-
theran synod of Wisconsin and other
states, under whose patronage the
X college and connected colleges or
seminarieS are founded; and further,
provided, that the board of trustees
shall have no power or authority to
acquire, hold or convey any real proper
ty, except under the direction of the
said synod, given at regular or special
meeting of said synod.
Section 2. The said trustees shall
annually elect a chairman, secretary
and treasurer from among their number.
and shall assign to them their respective
business and duties.
Section 3. The board Of trustees of
the Northwestern college shall
have power, under the direction Of said
synod, to appoint president of said
x college, and also presiding pro-
fessors of any other college or seminary
which may be connected with said
X college, or be added thereto with
view of extending the course and plan
of said \ college, and all nee
essary professors, instructors. and tutors
of said x college, or any college
or seminary connected Herewith. 1t
shall have power to appoint and employ
other needful officers for said
college and other institutions of learn
ing con cted Herewith, and assign to
them their respective duties. The board
of trustees shall have power to make
sIch regulations and rules for the ad
mission, instruction and education Of
the students admitted to said institutions
as shall be deemed best to them, subject,
however, to the approval and consent of
the synod; and the said board of trustees
shall, with the advice Of the faculty of
the synod, make such rules and regula-
tiOns relating to the courses of study as
they deem best, and all rules for the
better government OF the institutions;
provided, however, that no such rule or
regulations shall be repugnant to the
laws of the United States or the laws of
of the state, neither shall any of them
exclude any person of any religious de-
nomination whatever from equal right
or advantage of education or from any
of the degrees, liberties, privileges, bene-
fits or immunities Of said col
lege or of any college or seminary con-
nected Herewith, on account of his
particular tenets in religion.
S6CllOu fs Iudb bu0 Sdlu uSb66S uldy,
by the president of said college or any
other person by them authorized and
appointed, give and grant any such de-
gree and degrees to all such persons
thought by them worthy thereof, as are
known to and usually granted by any
university or college in Europe or in
the United States; that the said trustees
may and shall have a common seal,
under which they shall and may pass
all grants, diplomas and all other writ
ings whatsoever, requisite or convenient
to pass under such seal, and which shall
be engraved in such form and with such
device and inscription as shall be agreed
on by the said trustees, and to alter the
same at their pleasure, and to have such
general mowers not herein SDecifind and