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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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Bills and Acts to Establish an Educational Institution DOCUMENT NUMBER 23 525 Copies of bills introduced or acts passed by the state legislature in the attempts to establish a state university or -agricultural college in Illinois. Bill of 1883 to establish the Illinois University Found in Illinois School Report 1887-1888, p. CXVIL SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, That there shall be and hereby is created and established a university for the education of the youth in the English, learned and foreign languages, the useful sciences, and literature, to be known by the name and style of the Illinois University, and to be governed and regulated as hereinafter directed. 2. There shall be a Board of Trustees appointed, consisting of ten persons, residents of this State, who shall be, and hereby are constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of "The Trustees of the 'Illinois University\ ", and in their said corporate name and capacity may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of record, and by that name shall have perpetual succession. 3. The said trustees shall fill all vacancies which may happen in their own body, elect a president of the board, secretary, treasurer, and such other officers as may be necessary for the good order and government of said corporation, and shall be competent in law and equity to take to themselves and their successors in their said corporate name, any estate, real, personal or mixed, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, will, devise or bequest of any person or persons whomsoever, and the same estate, whether real or personal, to grant, bargain, sell, convey, demise, let, place out on interest, or otherwise dispose of for the use of said University in such manner as to them shall seem most beneficial to the institution, and, generally, in their said corporate name shall have full power to do and transact all business necessary to the interests of said institution, as fully and effectually, as any natural person, body politic or corporate may or can do in the management of their own concerns.
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