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BOU and Acts to Establish an Educational Institution 529 or honorary degrees as the nature and title of the institution indicate. 4. The trustees of the corporation shall have authority, from time to time, to prescribe and regulate the course of studies to be pursued in said college, and in the preparatory departments attached thereto, to fix the rate of tuition, room rent, and other college expenses; to appoint instructors, and such other officers and agents as may be needed in managing the concerns of the institution; to define their powers, duties and employments; to fix their compensation; to displace and remove either of the instructors, officers or agents, as said trustees shall deem the interest of the said college; to require to fill all vacancies among said instructors, officers and agents; to erect necessary buildings; to purchase books and chemical and philosophical apparatus, and other suitable means of instruction; to put in operation a system of manual labor, for the purpose of lessening the expense of education and promoting the health of the students; to make rules for the general management of the affairs of the college, and for the regulation of the conduct of the students, and to add, as the ability of the said corporation shall increase, and the interest of the community shall require, additional departments for the study of agriculture and the mechanical arts, on scientific principles. 5. If any trustee shall be chosen president of the college, his former place as trustee shall be considered as vacant, and his place filled by the remaining trustees. The trustees for the time being shall have power to remove any trustee from his office of trustee for any dishonorable or criminal conduct: Provided, that no such removal shall take place without giving to such trustee notice of the charges exhibited against him, and an opportunity to defend himself before the board, nor unless that twothirds of the whole number of trustees for the time being shall concur in such removal. The trustees for the time being, in order to have perpetual succession, shall have power, as often as a trustee is removed from office, die, resign or remove out of the state, to appoint a resident of the state, to fill the vacancy in the board of trustees occasioned by such removal from office, death, resignation or removal from the state. A majority of the trustees for the time being shall be a quorum to do business.

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