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WILLIAM PACA, Esq; Governor.
XIV. And be it
enacted, That a majority of the said visitors and governors
for the time being, when duly assembled at any quarterly or other meeting,
upon
due notice given to the whole body of visitors and governors, shall
have full power
and authority to make fundamental ordinances for the government of
the said
college, and the instruction of the youth, as aforesaid, and by these
ordinances to
appoint such a number of their own body, not less than seven, as they
may think
proper, to be a quorum for transacting all general and necessary business
of the
said seminary, and making temporary rules for the government of the
same; and
also by the said fundamental ordinances to delegate 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 law of this state. |
1784.
CHAP.
XXXVII.
Majority may
make ordinances,
&c. |
XV. 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 visitors
and governors, and their successors, shall by a
written mandate, under their privy seal, and the hand of some one of
the visitors
and governors 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 may
direct, and at such commencements to admit any of the students in the
said college,
or any other person 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 or Europe; and it is hereby enacted,
that the principal, or in case of his death or absence, the vice-principal,
and in
case of the death or absence of both, 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 said corporation or college, and deliver to the graduates, as honourable
and
perpetual testimonials of such admission; which diplomas, if thought necessary
for doing greater honour to such graduates, shall also be signed with the
names
of the different professors, or as many of them as can conveniently sign
the same;
provided always, that no student or students within the sid 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 the 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 visitors and governors, or of such quorum
of them,
not less than seven, 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
in the same, unless thirteen of the visitors and governors, (of whom the
president shall be one) by a mandate under their privy seal, and signed
by the hands
of the whole thirteen, to the principal, vice-principal and professors,
directed, have
signified their approbation and authority for the particular admission
of such person
to said degree or degrees. |
Public commencements
to be held,
&c. |
XVI. And be
it enacted, That the ordinances which shall be, from time to
time, made by the visitors and governors of the said college, and their
successors,
with an account of their other proceedings, and of the management of the
estate
and monies committed to their trust, shall, when required, be laid before
the
general assembly, for their inspection and examination; but in case at
any time
hereafter, through oversight, or otherwise through misapprehensions and
mistaken
constructions of the powers, liberties and franchises, in this charter
or act
of incorporation granted or intended to be granted, any ordinance should
be
made by the said corporation of visitors and governors, or any matters
done and
transacted by the corporation, contrary to the tenor thereof, it is enacted,
that |
Ordinances to
be laid before
assembly, &c. |
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