PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

have, make and use one common and public seal, and
likewise one privy seal, with such devices and descrip-
tions as they shall think proper, and to ascertain, fix
and regulate the uses of both seals by their laws, and
the same seals, or either of them, to change, break, al-
ter and renew at their pleasure.

CHAP. 247.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the said trustees,
and their successors, as soon as the proper buildings,
furniture and apparatus, and so forth, and so forth, are
secured for the full and successful operation of the col-
lege, and the trustees have the means to pay for the
same, be authorised to receive and fund subscriptions,
donations and bequests, to enable them to admit as stu-
dents and scholars gratuitously, in whole or in part, as
their respective cases may require, such person or per-
sons as they may think proper, and the income from
such special fund will allow.

When to go in-
to operation.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That for the encour-
agement of the students of said college to a laudable
diligence, industry and progress in useful literature and
science, the said trustees, and their successors shall, by
a written mandate, under the privy seal, and the hand
of the president of the board, nave full power and au-
thority to direct the president of the faculty and the pro-
fessors, to hold public Commencements, at such times
and places, statedly or occasionally, as the ordinances of
the college shall direct, and at such Commencement to
admit any of the students of said college, whose names
shall be severally inserted in the mandate, to any de-
gree or degrees, in the arts and sciences to which per-
sons are usually admitted in the highest female colleges
in America.

To hold public
Commence-
ments.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted. That the president of
the faculty, or in case of his death or absence, the se-

nior professor who may be present, shall make out and
sign with his name, diplomas or certificates of the ad-
mission to such degree or degrees, which shall be sealed
with the greater or public seal of the corporation, and
delivered to the graduates as honorable and perpetual

To grant diplo-
mas.

testimonials of such admission; provided always, that
:no student or students of said college shall ever be ad-
mitted to any such degree or degrees, or have their names
inserted in any mandate for a degree, until such stu-
dent or students have been first duly examined and
thought worthy of the same, at a public examination
of the candidate, to be held at such time and place as
the board of trustees may direct, and in the presence of
said trustees, or as many of them as the ordinances of
the college may require ami authorise to be present, and

Proviso.