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Caption: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942)
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42 common seal to serve for their necessary causes." power all such wholesome and reasonable laws, rules and ordinances, not repugnant to the laws of England nor the laws of this colony, as they shall think fit and proper * * *" 7. Power to accept grants was given the College. (Charters and Laws of American Universities, Chambers, Appendix.) University of Illinois. The parallels between the charter powers of Oxford and Cambridge and those of the University of Illinois under the charter of 1867 are too striking to be coincidental. The charter of 1867 provides: 1. The Trustees "shall be * * * styled 'The Board of Industrial name 2. They shall be a "body corporate and politic." 3. The governing body "by that name and style shall have perpetual succession." rm„r » • « 4. The governing body "shall have * * * po to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to acquire, hold and convey real and personal property." 5. The University "shall com mon * * * 6. The governing body was given the power "to # make and establish by-laws * * for the management or government * * * of the Illinois Industrial Univer sity." 7. The Illinois Industrial University was given the power to "accept the endowments of voluntary professorships or departments in the University fro any person or persons or corporations who may offer the same." (Laws of Illinois, 1867, pp. 123-29.)
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