J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                               523

IV.    The said Visitors and Governors, 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 use of both seals, by their own laws, and the same SAID
seals, or either of them, to change, break, alter, and renew, at their
pleasure.

V.    The said Visitors and Governors, and their successors, from
time to time, shall have full power and authority to constitute and
appoint, in such manner as they shall think best and most con-
venient, a president, such administrative officers as may be deemed
necessary, and professors and other officers of instruction, for
instructing the students and scholars of the said seminary in all the
liberal arts and sciences; and the said president and professors so
constituted and appointed from time to time shall be known and
distinguished forever by the name of the president and faculty of
Washington College, and by that name shall be capable of exercising
such powers and authorities as the Visitors and Governors of said
College, and their successors, shall by their ordinances think neces-
sary to delegate to them, for the instruction, discipline and govern-
ment of the said seminary and of all the students and scholars
belonging to the same.

VI.    The said Visitors and Governors, and their successors, shall
meet at least four times in every year, in stated quarterly meetings,
to be appointed by their own ordinances, and at such other times as
by their said ordinances they may direct, in order to hear and deter-
mine upon all matters touching the discipline of the seminary and
the good and wholesome execution of their ordinances; in which
meetings and determinations such number of the said Visitors and
Governors duly met, provided they be not less than thirteen (13),
shall be a quorum.

VII.    The said Visitors and Governors may appoint an Executive
Committee, consisting of not less than nine (9) members, who shall,
between the meetings of the Board, possess and exercise all of the
powers of the Board except as limited by the general corporation
laws of this State.

VIII.    For animating and encouraging the students of the said
college to a laudable diligence, industry and progress, in useful
literature and science, 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 chairman according to the ordinance to be made
for that purpose, have full power and authority to direct the president
and the officers of instruction 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 persons meriting
the same, (whose names shall be severally inserted in the said man-
date) to any degree or degrees in any of the faculties, arts and
sciences, and liberal professions, to which persons are usually ad-
mitted in other colleges or universities in America or Europe; and
it is hereby enacted that the president, or in case of his death or
absence the next ranking officer of the College, shall make out and