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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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Bills and Acts to Establish an Educational Institution Feb. 12, 1853 541 Style Location eral Assembly, That John Colvin, Smiley Shepard, John Grable, L. L. Bullock, Lewis Beck and William A. Pennell, and their successors, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The Northern Illinois Agricultural College," and by that name and style to remain and have perpetual succession. The institution shall remain and be permanently located within the limits of Putnam County, at such place as shall be determined hereafter by the stockholders: Provided, that it shall require a majority of all the stockholders to determine such place or location. 2. For the present, the aforesaid individuals shall constitute the board of trustees for said institution. 3. The object of said corporation shall be the promotion of the general interests of agricultural and mechanical education, and to qualify students to engage in the several pursuits and employments of society, and to discharge honorably and usefully the various duties of life. 4. The corporate powers hereby created shall be such only as are essential or useful in the attainments 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, to plead and be impleaded, to grant and receive by its corporate name, and to do all other acts the same as natural persons; to accept, acquire, purchase or sell property, real, personal, or mixed, in all lawful ways, to use, employ, manage and dispose of all such property and 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 Trustees Objects Corporate powers
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