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BiUs and Acts to Establish an Educational Institution 535 16. Any student who is admitted to gratuitous instruction in any of the colleges under this act may be dismissed from the same for incapacity, inattention to study, violation of any regulations of the institution made in accordance with their charter, or for any gross immorality, but not for any denominational peculiarities of religious belief or form of worship. 17. The income of the college and seminary funds appropriated in this act shall be computed from the day of the opening of the present session of the General Assembly. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Bill of 1853 proposed by the representatives of the colleges. Copy made by G. L. Lumsden and sent to J. B. Turner, Turner manuscripts, Springfield. "BILL" For an Act for the encouragement of practical and general education. Whereby a liberal and varied education of such practical character as to be adapted to the wants of a practical and enterprising people, is a matter of great public interest; and whereas a provision for such educational facilities is in manifest concurrence with the intimations of the popular will, therefore, 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly that an amount equal to the annual interest of the College and Seminary fund shall be appropriated equally to such colleges in this State and upon such conditions as are hereafter described in this Act. 2. No College shall be entitled to receive a distributive share of the interest accruing on the said college and seminary fund unless the President and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of such college shall certify to the Secretary of the State that such College is permanently established and possessed of actual property to the value of not less than $30,000 over and above all liabilities for scholarships or otherwise; and that such college has given, for at least three years, the full course of classical and
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