| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
and the good and wholesome execution of their ordinances; in all
which examinations, meetings and determinations, such manner of
the said trustees duly met, (provided they be not less than five,)
shall be a quorum. |
1817.
CHAP. 144. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That a majority of the
said trustees,
for the time being, when duly assembled at any quarterly or other
meeting, upon due notice having been given to the whole body,
shall have full power and authority to make fundamental ordinances
for the government of said college, and the instruction of youth
as aforesaid, and by these ordinances to appoint such a number of
their own body, not less than three, as they may think proper, to
be a quorum for transacting all general and necessary business of
the said college, and making temporary rules for the government
of the same; and also by the same fundamental ordinances to delegate
to the president, professors and teachers, such powers and authorities
as they may think best for the standing government of said
college, and of the execution of the ordinances and rules of the
same; and to make and ordain by-laws, rules and regulations,
from time to time, and the same to alter and annul, as they may
think proper; and shall have power and authority to do all matters
and things they in their judgment shall think will promote the interest
of the institution, consistent with this act, and not repugnant
to the form of government or any laws of this state or of the United
States; Provided nevertheless, that for the sake of securing
perpetual
harmony between the board of trustees, and the board of
faculty, all laws, ordinances, rules or regulations, pertaining to
the
interior regulations and management of the institution, shall be
subject to the following provisions: First, the faculty may suspend
any such laws or ordinance made by the board of trustees, which
they may find to operate injuriously, until a meeting of said board
shall take place. |
Powers of trustees.
Proviso. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees, and
their successors,
shall have full power and authority to have, make and use, one
common and public seal, and likewise one privy seal, with such
devices and inscriptions as they shall think proper, and to ascertain,
fix and regulate, the uses of both seals, by their own laws,
and the same seals, or either of them, to change, break, alter and
renew, at their pleasure. |
To make and use
a seal. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
are authorised, so far as their funds may warrant, to admit
gratuitously, in whole or in part, as their respective cases may
require, such person or persons as they may think proper, and
that the trustees are authorised to receive subscriptions, donations
and bequests, as a fund to meet the expenditures required in effecting
this benevolent object, and to take such measures as they may
conceive proper to augment said fund. |
May admit persons
gratuitously. |
10. AND, for animating and encouraging the
students of the
said college to a laudable diligence, industry and progress, in useful
literature and science, BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, and
their successors, shall by a written mandate under the privy seal,
and the hand of one of the trustees to be chosen annually as the
president, according to the ordinance to be made for that purpose,
have full power and authority to direct the president of the faculty,
and professors, to hold public commencements, either on stated |
Commencement. |
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