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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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170 History University of Illinois main and have perpetual succession, with power' etc. (without any fixed and limited amount whatever). "3rd Section—'The number of persons constituting said Board of Trustees shall not exceed that of one from each Senatorial District within this State, five of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, at any regular or special meeting, duly notified and assembled/ (This will enable us to have 25 trustees.) "4th Section—'Said corporation may establish such departments of Learning, Science and Art, including Agricultural, Mechanical and Anthropologic Philosophy, as may, in the progress of time, be deemed necessary—and shall assign to each department a competent Faculty of Instruction. And no religious test shall ever be required of those who may constitute the Faculty or who may become students of such institution.' "5th Section—The Corporation may (if it be not otherwise provided for by law) issue (Certificates of Scholarship), either limited or perpetual, etc. "11th Section—" Provides that the Board of Trustees are authorized when they shall have the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) to begin the permanent organization and location of the aforementioned University—the creation of the Instruction Fund—provided for the education of orphan children of both sexes, and for such other purposes as the institution may require in a general industrial system of education. " I n the Charter, everything is provided for that may be necessary to promote and advance Industrial and Scientific Learning; the establishment of a Normal Department; Branches of the University in District of counties, and everything that may be thought by the Board to be for "the general welfare'9 of the cause, and, the best interest involved for all future time. "Gov. Matteson told me today—it is all right. It is but laying the foundation, or marking out the ground for the Nation to found and consecrate a temple for the sacred purposes of Education in the things next #s. Yours—Geo. L. Lumsden." During the same session of the legislature the representatives of the colleges were busy in Springfield to effect a division
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