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Bills and Acts to Establish an Educational Institution

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or devised shall revert to the donor, grantor or the heirs of the devisor of the same, if the donor, grantor, or the heirs of the same, shall so demand. APPROVED FEB. 15, 1851. Bill of 1851. Illinois School Report, 1887-1888 p. LXXXIV. A Bill For An Act Organizing a State University for the Benefit of Popular Education and for Distributing the Income of the College and Seminary Funds. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That the Governor, the Secretary of State, and the Presidents of the several colleges of this State, complying with the provisions of this act, shall together constitute a board of education to be styled the "Regents of the University of the State of Illinois/' 2. No seminary of learning shall be entitled to the benefits conferred in this act which is not organized under a college charter with a regular course of study requiring four years for its accomplishment and a college faculty consisting of at least a president, principal (or usher), and at least two other competent professors, an adequate library and apparatus, or shall not be able to exhibit satisfactory evidence of the possession of property in buildings, library and instruments of instruction, and permanent productive funds to the amount of at least thirty thousand dollars. 3. The annual income of the college and seminary fund shall be annually distributed among such colleges of the State as shall comply with the conditions prescribed by this act, giving to each college an equal share. The amount to which each college shall be entitled shall be drawn on the warrant of the President of the Board of Regents countersigned by the secretary. 4. Each college receiving its share of the income of the said funds shall bef obligated to instruct gratuitously one pupil from each county in this State; and if no person shall make application from any county in this State at the opening of any session,