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466 History University of Illinois DOCUMENT NUMBER 12 Published in Private Laws, February 21, 1861, p. 24, also in Central Illinois Gazette, (Champaign) May 1, 1861. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE URBANA AND CHAMPAIGN INSTITUTE. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That B. F. Harris, William Park, J. T. Everett, John Insley, J. S. Wright, John Penfield, J. W. Sim, Jr., C. F. Columbia and Henry Nelson, and such other persons as are, or may hereafter be associated with them, and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the Urbana and Champaign Institute, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a Seminary of learning, comprehending an agricultural, or other departments, as the public may demand, situated between the cities of Urbana and Champaign, in the county of Champaign, and State of Illinois, for males and females, with power to sue and be sued, to take and to hold real estate and other property, by purchase, gift, grant, devise or otherwise; to lease, convey and dispose of the same for the effecting and furtherance of the purposes aforesaid, with power to confer degrees and give diplomas, such as are common in such institutions, and to use a common seal. SEC. 2. The estate, property and financial concerns of said corporation shall be managed and transacted by a Board of nine Trustees, to be elected by the stockholders herein after mentioned. SEC. 3. The persons named in the first section of this act shall constitute the first board of trustees, and shall be divided by lot into three classes. The time of service of the first class shall expire on the last Tuesday in June, A. D. 1862, and that of the second class in one, and that of the third class in two years thereafter. SEC. 4. There shall be a board of visitors, who shall jointly with the trustees appoint the teachers and officers, arrange the course of instruction and determine the general manner of conducting said institution. Said board of visitors shall be consti-
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