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528 History University of Illinois Acts of 1851 to incorporate the FarmersI College in Macoupin County, Illinois. Laws of Illinois 1851, p. 181 AN ACT to incorporate the Farmers' College in Macoupin county, Illinois. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of tJte State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Alvin M. Dixon, John A. Chesnut, Samuel Welton, Grundy H. Blackburn and David A. McCord, and their successors, be and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic, by the name of the "Trustees of the Farmers 9 College,'9 and by that style and name to remain and have prepetual succession. The college shall remain permanently located in Macoupin county; the number of trustees shall not exceed fifteen, exclusive of the president, principal or presiding officer of the college, who shall be ex-officio a member of the board of trustees. * 2. For the present the aforesaid individuals shall constitute the board of trustees, who shall fill the remaining vacancies at their discretion. The object of said corporation shall be the promotion of the general interests of education, and to qualify young men to engage in the several employments of society, and to discharge honorably and usefully the various duties of life. 3. The corporate powers hereby bestowed shall be such only as are essential or useful in the attainment of said object, and such as are usually conferred on similar bodies corporate, viz: to have perpetual succession, to make contracts, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, to grant and receive, by its corporate name, and to do all other acts as natural persons may; to accept, acquire, purchase or sell property, real, personal and mixed, in all lawful ways; to use, employ, manage and dispose of all such property, and all money belonging to said corporation, in such manner as shall seem to the trustees best adapted to promote the objects aforementioned; and to have a common seal, and to alter or change the same; to make such byB B | for its regulation as are not inconsistent with the constitug | | | and laws of the United States or of this state, and to confer on such persons as may be considered worthy such academical
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