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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
to the principal, vice-principal and professors, such powers and authorities
as they may think best for the standing government of
the said seminary, and of the execution of the ordinances and rules
of the same; Provided always, that they be not repugnant to
the
form of government or any laws of this state. |
1803.
CHAP. 74.
Proviso. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said 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. |
May make and
use a common
seal. |
13. AND, for animating and encouraging the
students of the
said college to a laudable and 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 their privy
seal and the hand of some of the trustees, to be chosen annually as
their president according to the ordinance to be made for that purpose,
have full power and authority to direct the principal, vice-principal
and professors, to hold public commencements, either on
stated annual days, or occasionally, as the future ordinances of the
said seminary shall direct, and at such commencements to admit
any of the students of the said college, or any other persons meriting
the same, (whose names shall be severally inserted in the
same mandate,) to any degree or degrees in any of the faculties,
arts and sciences, and liberal professions, to which persons are
usually admitted in other colleges or universities in America; and
it is hereby enacted, that the principal or vice-principal, or in case
of his or their death or absence, the senior professor who may
be
present, shall make out, and sign with his name, diplomas or certificates
of the admission to such degree or degrees, which shall be
sealed with the public or greater seal of the corporation or college,
and delivered to the graduates as honourable and perpetual testimonials
of such admission, which diploma, if thought necessary
for doing greater honour to such graduates, shall also be signed
with the names of the different professors, or as may of them as
can conveniently sign the same; Provided always, that no student
or students within the said college shall ever be admitted to any
such degree or degrees, or have their name inserted in any mandate
for a degree, until such student or students have been first
duly examined and thought worthy of the same, at a public examination
of candidates, to be held one whole month previous to the
day of commencement in the said college, by and in the presence
of the said trustees, or such number of them, not less than five,
as the ordinances of the college may authorise for that purpose,
and in the presence of any other persons choosing to attend the
same; And provided further, that no person or persons, excepting
the students belonging to the said seminary, shall ever be admitted
to any honorary or other degree or degrees of the same, unless
nineteen trustees, the principal of the college being present, by a
mandate under the privy seal, and signed by the hands of the said
nineteen trustees, to the principal, vice-principal and professors
directed, have signified their approbation and authority for the
particular admission of said persons to said degree or degrees. |
May direct public
commencements
to be held—Diplomas.
Provisos. |
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