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Timestamp: 2019-10-14 02:30:25
Document Index: 393795463

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 12', '§ 13', '§ 14', '§ 15', '§ 16', '§ 17', '§ 18', '§  19', '§ 20', '§ 21', '§ 22', '§ 23', '§ 12', '§ 13', '§ 14', '§ 15', '§ 16', '§ 17', '§ 18', '§ 19', '§ 20', '§ 21', '§ 22', '§ 23']

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186 LAWS  OF
not invalidate the action of the commissioners, but they shall go on with their
duties in the same manner, as if every county had bid, and was represented,
§T1» The bids shall be opened, and the additions made in presence of
the Commissioners, and of the individuals appointed by the different county
Courts^ or such of them as are in attendance, and receive the bids of the
counties named in the second section of this act, and Alio place presenting the
most advantages to be derived to said University, keeping in view (he amount
subscribed, and locality and general advantages, shall be entitled to its location, and shall be published in each newspaper published in the city of Jefferson,
§ 12. The commissioners shall return to tire counties, who do not obtain
tlfo University, the subscription papers, and the deeds of conveyance which
they may have received from them, or their citizens, and they shall be cancelled.
§ 13. If there shall be, on any lauds granted for the use of the University,
and within two miles of the site selected, any building adapted to the use of
a College or Seminary, such building shall be appropriated to such use, until
other sufficient buildings shall be erected on the site of the University.
§ 14. If such land and buildings shall have been granted by the trustees
of any incorporated College or Seminary, the corporation shall not thereby
be dissolved, but such College or Seminary shall be deemed a College or
Seminary of the University, and subject to regulation and government as such.
§ 15. Until a State University shall be instituted and incorporated, and
provisions (made for the government of the Colleges and Seminaries*) thereof,
the trustees making a grant as in the preceding section specified, shall continue to have the powers and privileges vested in them by their charter of incorporation; except that the property granted by them shall be vested in the State
for the uses specified inthe grant.
§ 16. It shall be the duty of the commissioners, immediately after selecting
the site for the University, to deposite with the Auditor of Public Accounts all
conveyances for land, and subscriptions within the county in which the site is
<§ 17. The Auditor of Public Accounts, as soon as the subscription or any
part thereof shall become due, shall place the evidences of such subscription in
the hands of the Attorney prosecuting for the State in the county in which
the subscribers reside, for collection, taking the receipt of the Attorney
§ 18. It shall be the duty of such Attorney to collect the money subscribed,
without unnecessary delay, and cause the same to be paid into the State Treasury for the use of the University.
§  19.  All money, which shall be (collected  under the provisions of this act,1
shall be *) applied, so far as the same may be necessary for the purpose, to the
construction of necessary buildings on the site selected, in such manner as the
General Assembly shall by law direct.
§ 20. Any vacancy happening in the Board of Commissioners either by
death or otherwise, the remaining Commissioners shall fill the same, but shall
select no person having a direct interest in choosing the site, and who does not
live at least one hundred miles from each county entitled to bid.
§ 21. Each Commissioner, before entering upon the discharge of his duty,
shall take an oath before some Judge or Justice of the Peace, that he will
faithfully  and  impartially  perform the trust reposed in him.
§ 22. The said Commissioners, in addition to the oath already required to
be taken, shall first (take) and subscribe, the following oath, to wit: That he
is not directly, or indirectly interested in any real estate in either of the counties herein named, to wit: Callaway, Boone,Howard, Cooper, Cole and Sa'ine.
§ 23. The Commissioners appointed under the provisions of this act shall receive the sum of three dollars per day, for each day they shall be engaged in
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Transcript 186 LAWS OF not invalidate the action of the commissioners, but they shall go on with their duties in the same manner, as if every county had bid, and was represented, §T1» The bids shall be opened, and the additions made in presence of the Commissioners, and of the individuals appointed by the different county Courts^ or such of them as are in attendance, and receive the bids of the counties named in the second section of this act, and Alio place presenting the most advantages to be derived to said University, keeping in view (he amount subscribed, and locality and general advantages, shall be entitled to its location, and shall be published in each newspaper published in the city of Jefferson, § 12. The commissioners shall return to tire counties, who do not obtain tlfo University, the subscription papers, and the deeds of conveyance which they may have received from them, or their citizens, and they shall be cancelled. § 13. If there shall be, on any lauds granted for the use of the University, and within two miles of the site selected, any building adapted to the use of a College or Seminary, such building shall be appropriated to such use, until other sufficient buildings shall be erected on the site of the University. § 14. If such land and buildings shall have been granted by the trustees of any incorporated College or Seminary, the corporation shall not thereby be dissolved, but such College or Seminary shall be deemed a College or Seminary of the University, and subject to regulation and government as such. § 15. Until a State University shall be instituted and incorporated, and provisions (made for the government of the Colleges and Seminaries*) thereof, the trustees making a grant as in the preceding section specified, shall continue to have the powers and privileges vested in them by their charter of incorporation; except that the property granted by them shall be vested in the State for the uses specified inthe grant. § 16. It shall be the duty of the commissioners, immediately after selecting the site for the University, to deposite with the Auditor of Public Accounts all conveyances for land, and subscriptions within the county in which the site is selected. <§ 17. The Auditor of Public Accounts, as soon as the subscription or any part thereof shall become due, shall place the evidences of such subscription in the hands of the Attorney prosecuting for the State in the county in which the subscribers reside, for collection, taking the receipt of the Attorney therefor. § 18. It shall be the duty of such Attorney to collect the money subscribed, without unnecessary delay, and cause the same to be paid into the State Treasury for the use of the University. § 19. All money, which shall be (collected under the provisions of this act,1 shall be *) applied, so far as the same may be necessary for the purpose, to the construction of necessary buildings on the site selected, in such manner as the General Assembly shall by law direct. § 20. Any vacancy happening in the Board of Commissioners either by death or otherwise, the remaining Commissioners shall fill the same, but shall select no person having a direct interest in choosing the site, and who does not live at least one hundred miles from each county entitled to bid. § 21. Each Commissioner, before entering upon the discharge of his duty, shall take an oath before some Judge or Justice of the Peace, that he will faithfully and impartially perform the trust reposed in him. § 22. The said Commissioners, in addition to the oath already required to be taken, shall first (take) and subscribe, the following oath, to wit: That he is not directly, or indirectly interested in any real estate in either of the counties herein named, to wit: Callaway, Boone,Howard, Cooper, Cole and Sa'ine. § 23. The Commissioners appointed under the provisions of this act shall receive the sum of three dollars per day, for each day they shall be engaged in