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Caption: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942)
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17 (b) If the Attorney General desired to test the validity of the nets of the University in the premises in calling upon petitioners Hodges and Johnson for the performance of the duties described, he should have proceeded in a lawful manner by quo warranto, or by information in equity. People v. Board of Education, 101 111. 308, 312, 313. People v. Wilmette, 375 111. 420, 424. People v. Ingersoll, 58 N. Y. 1. In re Great Eastern Ry. Co., 11 Ch. Div. 449. Hunt v. Chicago Horse and Dummy Ry. Co., 121 111. 638, 642. IV. The university is a public corporation of the same m commission, board or department of either the executive or judicial department of the state government, but a creature of the legislature with such powers as the legislature confers upon it. Smith-Hurd R. S., 1941, C. 127, Sec. l-63a, 22, ff. Spaulding v. People, 172 111. 40, 49, 50. Statutes of 13 Eliz., C. 29. Ayliffe, State of Oxford, II, 240, 197, 198, passim. Charter of Oxford, Henry VIII, 1523. Laws of Illinois, 1867, pp. 123-129. Nevins, Illinois, 1-41. 7 U. S. C. A., Sec. 301, ff. James, Origin of the Land Grant College Act, 63, 73, 82. Charters and Laws of American Universities. Chambers, Appendix. Illinois College, Rammelkamp, 23-38.
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