THE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 Its Charter, 
 
 AND OTHER ACTS OF LEGISLATION RELATING THERETO; 
 
 Ordinances and By-Laws. 
 
 OFFICERS FOR 1877-'8. 
 
 
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 U. S. A. 
 
 WASHINGTON, D. C. : 
 
 GIBSON BKOTHEES, PKINTEltS. 
 
 1877. 
 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 Pagr. 
 Charter , l"-' 
 
 Territorial Relief Act • ^ 
 
 Supplemental Act : 7 
 
 Trustees, Overseers, and Officers for 1877-'8 9 
 
 Ordinances and By-Laws 10 
 
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 ORDINANCES AJTD BY-LAWS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE Columbian UiiiVERSiTY 
 
 IN THE 
 
 District of Columbia, 
 
 Adopted at the Annual Meeting of the Corporation, June 24, 1873. 
 
 CHARTER. 
 
 An Act to incorporate the Columbian College in the District of Columbia. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and llotose of Representatives of 
 the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there 
 be erected, and hereby is erected and established, in the District 
 of Cohitnbia, a College, for the sole and exclusive purpose of edu- 
 cating youth in the English, learned, and foreign languages, the 
 liberal arts, sciences, and literature ; the style and title of which 
 shall be, and hereby is declared to be, " The Columbian College 
 in the District of Columbia." 
 
 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said College shall 
 be under the management, direction, and government of a num- 
 ber of Trustees, not exceeding thirty-one, to be elected triennially, 
 by the contributors to the said College, qualified to vote, in such 
 manner, and under such limitations and restrictions, as may be 
 provided by the ordinances of the College, on the first Monday 
 in May ; and that the first Trustees of the said College shall con- 
 sist of the following persons, viz: Obadiah B. Brown, Luther 
 Rice, Enoch Eeynolds, Josiah Meigs, Spencer H. Cone, Daniel 
 Brown, Return J. Meigs, Joseph Gibson, Joseph Cone, Thomas 
 Corcoran, Burgis Allison, Thomas Sewall, and Joseph Thaw; 
 which said Trustees, and their successors, shall forever hereafter 
 be, and they are hereby declared to be, one body politic and cor- 
 
porate, with perpetual succession, in deed aud in law, to all in- 
 tents and pui'p(jses whatsoever, by the name, style, and title of 
 " The Columl^ian Colleg-e in the District of Columbia," by which 
 name and title they, the said Trustees, and their successors, shall 
 be competent and capable, at law and in equity, to take to them- 
 selves and their successors, for the use of the said- College, any 
 estate, in any messuage, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, 
 chattels, moneys, and other effects, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, 
 conveyance, assurance, will, devise, or bequest, of any person or 
 persons whatsoever: Prorrided, The same do not exceed, in the 
 whole, the yearly value of twenty -five thousand dollars ; and the 
 same messuages, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and estate, real 
 and personal, to grant, bargain, sell, convey, assure, demise, and 
 to farm let, and place out on interest, for the use of the said Col- 
 ■ lege, in such maimer as to them, or at least nine of them, shall 
 seem most beneficial to the Institution, and to receive the rents, 
 issues, and profits, income and interest of the same, and to apply 
 the same to the proper use and benefit of the said College ; and 
 by the same name to sue, commence, prosecute, and defend, im- 
 plead and be impleaded, in any courts of law and equity, and in 
 all manner of suits and actions whatsoever, and generally, by and 
 in the same name, to do and transact all and every, the business 
 touching or concerning the premises. 
 
 Sec. 3. Avd, he. it further enacted, That the said Trustees shall 
 cause to be made for their use one common seal, with such de- 
 vices and inscriptions thereon as they shall think proper, nnder 
 and by which all deeds, diplomas, certificates, and acts of the said 
 College, shall pass and be authenticated ; and the same seal, at 
 their pleasure, to break, and devise a new one. 
 
 Sec. 4. And he it further enacted. That the said Trustees, or five 
 of them at least, shall meet at the College, on College Hill in the 
 said District of Columbia, on the first Monday in March next, for 
 the purpose of concerting and agreeing to such business as, in 
 consequence of this act, shall be proper to be laid before them at 
 the commencement of the work the}^ have undertaken, and shall 
 have power to adjourn from time to time, as they shall see cause, 
 to any other times or places, for the purpose of perfecting the 
 same. That there shall be a stated meeting of the said Trustees 
 held twice in every year at least, at such place and time as the 
 
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 said Trustees, or a qiioram tliereof, shall appoint, of which pub- 
 lic notice shall be given, after tlie first meeting, at least twenty 
 clays before [the] time of such intended meeting, whenever the 
 President, to be appointed by them, shall deem the business of 
 the Institution to require the same, and give due notice thereof, 
 which he is hereby authorized to do ; and if at snch stated or oc- 
 casional meetings, five of the said Trustees shall not be present, 
 those of them who shall be present shall have power to adjourn 
 the meeting to any other day, as fully and effectualh'', to all in- 
 tents and purposes, as if the whole number of Trustees for the 
 time being were present ; but, if five or more of the said Trustees 
 shall meet at the said appointed times, or at any other time of 
 adjournment, then such five of the said Trustees shall be a Board 
 or quorum, and a majority of the votes of them shall be capable 
 of doing and transacting all the business and concerns of- the 
 said College not otherwise provided for by this act ; and particu- 
 larly of making and enacting ordinances for the . government of 
 the said College ; of electing and appointing the President, pro- 
 fessors, and tutors for the said College ; •of agreeing with them 
 for their salaries and stipends, and removing them for misconduct, 
 or breach of the laws of the Institution ; of appointing committees 
 of their own body to carry into execution all and every the res- 
 olutions of the Board ; of appointing a President, Treasurer, Sec- 
 retary, Stewards, Managers, and other necessary and customary 
 officers, for taking care of the estate and managing the concerns 
 of the Corporation ; and, generally, a majority of voices of the 
 Board, or quorum of the said Trustees, consisting of five persons 
 at least, at any semi-annual, occasional, or adjourned meeting, 
 after notice given as aforesaid, shall determine all matters and 
 things (although the same be not herein particularly mentioned) 
 which shall occasionally arise, and be incidentally necessary to be 
 determined and transacted by the said Trustees : Provided^ al- 
 ' -ways, That no ordinances shall be of force which shall be repug- 
 nant to this Charter, or to the laws of the District of Columbia. 
 
 Sec. 5. A)td he it fn>rtlier enacted, That the head or chief mas- 
 ter for the said College shall be called and styled " The Presi- 
 dent," and the masters thereof shall be called "Professors and 
 Tutors,", but neither President, professors, or tutors, while they 
 remain such, shall ever be capable of the office of Trustee. 
 
Sec. 6. And he it further enacted, That the President, pro- 
 fessors, and tutors, or a majority of them, shall be called and 
 styled " The Facility of the College," which Faculty shall have 
 the power of enforcing- the rules and regulations adopted by the 
 Trustees for the government of the pupils, by rewarding or cen- 
 suring them, and, finally, by suspending such of them as, after 
 repeated admonitions, shall continue disobedient and refractory, 
 until a determination of a quorum of the Trustees can be had ; 
 and of granting and confirming, by and with the a]3probation and 
 consent of the Board of Trustees, signified by their mandamus, 
 such degrees in the liberal arts and sciences, to such pupils of 
 the Institution, or others, who, by their proficiency in learning, 
 or other meritorious distinction, they shall think entitled to them, 
 as are usually granted and conferred in colleges ;, and to grant, 
 to such graduates, diplomas or certificates, under their common 
 seal, and signed by the Faculty, to authenticate and perpetuate 
 the memory of such graduation. 
 
 Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That persons of every relig- 
 ious denomination shail be capable of being elected Trustees ; 
 nor shall any person, either as President, professor, tutor, or 
 pupil, be refused admittance into said College, or denied any of 
 the j)rivileges, immunities, or advantages thereof, for or on ac- 
 count of his sentiments in matters of religion. 
 
 Sec. 8. And he it further enacted, That no misnomer of the 
 said Corporation shall defeat or annul any gift, grant, devise, or 
 bequest, to or from the said Corporation : I^rovlded, The intent 
 of the parties shall sufficiently appear upon the face of the gift, 
 grant, will, or other writing, whereby any estate or interest was 
 intended to pass to or from the said Corporation. 
 
 Sec. 9. And he it further enacted, That the constitution of the 
 said College, herein and hereby declared and established, shall 
 be, and remain, the inviolate constitution of the said College for- 
 ever ; and the same shall not be altered, or alterable, by any or- 
 dinance or law of the said Trustees : Pronlded, That it may be 
 lawful for the Congress of the United States to revoke and repeal 
 this act, at any and at all times whenever they shall think fit so 
 to do. 
 
 Sec. 10. And he it further enacted. That it shall be the duty 
 of the said Board of Trustees to keep a regular book or journal. 
 
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 in which shall be entered, under their direction, besides an account 
 of all their ordinary acts and proceedings, all the by-laws, ordi- 
 nances, rules, and regulations, which may be adopted hj the said 
 Board, for their OAvn government, and for the goYernment of the 
 Institution ; also, a schedule of all the property and effects, real, 
 personal, or mixed, which shall or may be invested in the said 
 Trustees, for the use of the said College, by virtue of any gift, 
 grant, bargain, sale, will, or otherwise, together with annual 
 statements concerning the accounts and finances of the Institu- 
 tion. That it shall, moreover, be the duty of the said Trustees 
 to cause to be enrolled, in the said book or journal, the names of 
 all the contributors to the Institution qualified to vote for Trus- 
 tees, with their respective places of residence ; and the said book 
 or journal shall at all times be open to the inspection or examin- 
 ation of the Attorney-General of the United States : and, when 
 required by either House of Congress, it shall be the dut}^ of the 
 said Trustees to furnish any information respecting their own 
 conduct, the state of the Institution, and of its finances, which 
 shall or may be so required. 
 
 Sec. 11. And Z>l it further enacted, That in case an}^ vacancj^ 
 or vacancies shall happen in the Board of Trustees aforesaid, by 
 death, inability, resignation, or otherwise, at any time between 
 the stated or triennial elections, that then it shall and may be 
 laAvful for the other Trustees, or any five of them, to proceed, at 
 any subsequent meeting after the happening of such vacancy or 
 vacancies, to choose, by ballot, any suitable person or persons to 
 fill the same. 
 
 Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the employment or 
 application of the funds or income of the said Corporation or any 
 part thereof, for any purpose or object other than those expressed 
 and defined in the first section of this act, or the investment 
 thereof in any other mode than is described and provided in the 
 second section thereof, shall be deemed and taken to be a forfeit- 
 ure of all the rights and immunities derived from this act, and 
 the same shall, thenceforth, cease, and become null and void. 
 
 Approved February 9, 1821. 
 
TERRITORIAL ACT. 
 
 An Act for the relief of the Columbian College in the District of Columbia. 
 
 Jie it evacted hy the Tjeyislative Asseinldy of the District of 
 Oohmihiei, Tbat the Columbian College, in the District of Co- 
 lumbia, chartered by and organized and acting under the act of 
 Congress approved Febrnary nine, eighteen hundred and twenty- 
 one, may, fi-om the. proceeds of any sale of its property, apply 
 such sum as may be needful to pay its present indebtedness, and 
 place its libraries, buildings, and apparatus of instruction in good 
 condition, and execute all deeds needful to quiet the title of 
 property already sold. 
 
 Sec. 2. And be it further evaetcd, That the Trustees of said 
 College elected May last shall constitute the Corporation of said 
 College until their successors in office shall be chosen and quali- 
 fied as is hereinafter provided, and may, until then, as vacancies 
 occur in their niunber, temporarily fill them by the election of fit 
 persons residing hi the District of Columbia. 
 
 Sec. 3. Ariel be it fitrtJier enacted. That said Trustees shall 
 meet .in the Law Building of said College, at noon, on the 
 twentj'-fiftli day of June, eighteen hundred and seventj^-two, for 
 the purpose of choosing, and shall then and there, or at the time 
 and place to which said meeting may be adjourned, elect thirteen 
 Trustees and thirteen Overseers, who shall, upon their election, 
 constitute the College Corporation, and they and their successors - 
 shall thenceforward be, and be known and recognized as, the 
 Columbian College in the District of Columbia. 
 
 Sec. 4. Ave] be it farther enacteel, That the Trustees chosen 
 at the said meeting in Jiuie, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, 
 or who may thereafter be chosen, shall be residents of the District 
 of Columbia, and that at said meeting, and at any annual meeting 
 of Trustees and Overseers to be thereafter held in said city of 
 Washington on the Tuesday next preceding the last Wednesday in 
 June, annually, the Trustees and Overseers in convention assem- 
 bled shall fill vacancies in their Board, and shall, by ballot, elect 
 from among the Trustees two suitable persons, one to be President 
 and the other to be Treasurer und Secretary of said Corporation 
 and of the Board of Trustees, and shall establish ordinances and 
 
by-laws, or alter or repeal the same ; and also frame laws and 
 regulations for the College Faculty and students in all the de- 
 partments thereof, and by ballot elect such teachers, tutors, pro- 
 fessors, lecturers, and President, and with such salaries and duties 
 as said Corporation may deem proper. 
 
 Sec. 5. And be it fitrtlier exacted. That at said annual meetings 
 not less than seven Trustees and three Overseers shall constitute 
 a quorum for the transaction of any business except adjournment, 
 and adjournment may he made by any number pj'esent : Provided^ 
 That a final adjournment shall not be delayed beyond one week 
 after the time fixed for the annxial meeting. 
 
 Sec. 6. And he it fnrt/ier enacted. That during the interval 
 between said annual meetings the Trustees shall, as now, hold 
 semi-annual, quarterly, monthly, and occasional meetings, to fill 
 temporarily, as the case may require, vacancies in the Faculty or 
 in their own Board, and with all their present powers as modified 
 by this act, subject to the ordinances and by-laws of the Corpo- 
 ration ; but no real estate or other property of said Corporation 
 shall, after the twenty-fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and 
 seventy-two, be disposed of by the Trustees, except by vote of the 
 Corporation or in pursuance of its ordinances. 
 
 Approved July 25, 1S71. 
 
 An Act suiiplemental to the act of Febrnaiy uiutli, eighteen hiindred and 
 twenty-one, incorporating the Cohimbiau College, in the District of Co- 
 lumbia. 
 
 J3e it enacted by the Senate and House of Hejyresentatives of 
 the United States of Ameo'ica in Congress assembled. That the 
 act to incorporate the Columbian College in the District of Co- 
 lumbia, approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty- 
 one, be, and the same is hereby, so modified that said corporation 
 shall be hereafter known and called by the name of the Columbian 
 University, and in that name shall take, hold and manage all the 
 estate and property now belonging to said College, or that may 
 hereafter be conveyed, devised or bequeathed to said Corporation 
 by its original name ; that the restriction of the yearly value of 
 the property of said corporation to the sum of twenty-five thou- 
 sand dollars be, and the said restriction is hereby, repealed ; and 
 
that said corporation may increase the number of its overseers to 
 twenty-one, and the number of its Trustees to twenty-one, exclu- 
 sive of the President of the Faculty, who shall be, ex ojficylo, a 
 trustee of said corporation. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the act for the relief of the Columbian College in 
 the District of Columbia, enacted by the Legislative Assembly of 
 said District, and approved July twenty -fifth, eighteen hundred 
 and seventy-one, be and the same is hereby, approved and con- 
 firmed : Provided^ That this act, nor the said act of the Legis- 
 lative Assembly of the said District, shall be so construed as to 
 authorize the said Columbian University to sell, or use the pro- 
 ceeds of any sale of land granted by Congress to said institution 
 for any purpose other than that expressed in the act of incorpo- 
 ration, and the act granting any such land or real estate, or con- 
 trary to any will, devise or grant of any land or real estate here- 
 tofore or hereafter made, by any person or persons to said insti- 
 tution. 
 
 [Approved March 3, 1873.] 
 
TRUSTEES AND OVERSEERS. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 W. W. CORCORAN LL. D. 
 Hon. JOHN A. BOLLES, LL. D. 
 WILLIAM GUNTON, Esq. 
 Uii. C. H. NICHOLS. 
 Rnv. S. P. HILL, D. D. 
 ANDREW ROTH WELL, Esq. 
 Hon. WILLIAM STICKNEY 
 W. F. MATTINGLY, Esq. 
 J. O. WILSON, Esq. 
 R. C. FOX, Esq. 
 HENRY BEARD,' Esq. 
 Rkv. J. W. PARKER, D. D. 
 Rev. J. H. CUTHBT,RT, D. D. 
 JAMES C. WELLING, LL. D. 
 S. F. BAIRD, A. M. 
 
 O'Z'ciseers. 
 
 Rev. C. H. RYLAND, Ale.xanilria, Va. 
 
 W. V. BOUIC, Esq., Rockville, Md. 
 
 T. U. WALTER, Ph. D., LL. D., German- 
 town, Pa. 
 
 Rev. J. W. M. WILLIAMS, D. D., Balti- 
 more. 
 
 Rev. W. T. BRANTLY, D. D., Baltimore. 
 
 Rev F. WILSON, D D., Baltimore. 
 
 HIRAM WOODS, Esq., 
 
 HENRY TAYLOR, Esq., 
 
 A. F. CRANE, , Esq., 
 
 C. A. KEYSER, Esq., 
 
 EUGENE LEVERING, Esq. 
 
 Hon. NATHAN BISHOP, New York. 
 
 Rev. WM. HAGUE, D. D., Boston, Mass. 
 
 OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY FOR 
 
 i877-'8. 
 
 President. Vice-President. . 
 
 W. W. CORCORAN. JOHN A. BOLLES. 
 
 Secretary and Treasurer. 
 WM. STICKNEY. 
 
 Executive Committee. 
 Messrs. BOLLES, GUNTON, NICHOLS, STICKNEY, and WELLING. 
 
 Auditing Committee. 
 Messrs. BEARD, ROTHWELL, and WILSON. 
 
 Committee on the Laiv School. 
 Messrs. MATTINGLY, WELLING, and BEARD. 
 
 Committee on the Medical College. 
 Messrs. NICHOLS, FOX, and PARKER. 
 
 Committee on Preparatory School. 
 Messrs. CUTHBERT, FOX, and WILSON. 
 
 Committee on the Columbian College. 
 Messrs. PARKER, HILL, and WILSON. 
 
ORDINANCES AND BY-LAWS. 
 
 Article I. — Officers. 
 
 The Officers of the Corporation shall be — 
 
 A President, 
 
 A Vice-President, 
 
 A Secretary and a Treasurer ; 
 all of whom shall be chosen from the Trustees by ballot, at 
 the annual meetings of the Corporation, and hold their offices for 
 one year, and until their successors are chosen and qualified ; the 
 ballots of a majority of the corporators present and voting at such 
 meetings being necessary to a choice. Thei'e shall also be chosen 
 at said meetings, by ballot or otherwise, the following commit- 
 tees : 
 
 An Executive Committee of five Trustees ; 
 
 An Auditing Committee of three Trustees ; 
 
 A Committee on the Preparatory School ; 
 
 A Committee on the College proper ; 
 
 A Committee on the Law School ; 
 
 A Committee on the Medical College ; 
 
 And a committee on every other School or College connected 
 with the University ; each of said committees to consist of three 
 Trustees. 
 
 Any vacancy in either of said offices or committees, in the Fac- 
 ulty of the University, or of any of its Schools or Colleges, or 
 in the Board of Trustees, that may occur between said annual 
 meetings, may be temporarily filled by the Trustees, at any duly- 
 notified meeting of the Board, by the ballots of a majority of 
 Trustees present and voting at such meeting. 
 
 Honorary Overseers and 1'rustees. 
 
 The President of the United States, the Chief -Justice of the 
 Supreme Court of the United States, and the Attorney-General 
 shall be Honorary Trustees of the University, and may attend the 
 meetings of the Corporation and of the Board of Trustees, with 
 the privilege of discussion but not of voting therein ; and any 
 person who shall give ten thousand dollars to the Corporation 
 shall be either an Honorary Overseer or Trustee, according' to his 
 residence. 
 
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 Article Jl.—Pozvers a?id Duties of the Officers of the Corporation. 
 
 I. — President. 
 
 The President of the Corporation shall preside at all annual or 
 other meetings of the Corporation, and at all meetings of the 
 Board of Trustees, with the powers ordinarily bestowed upon the 
 presiding officers of deliberative assemblies. 
 
 2. — Vice-President. 
 
 In the absence of the President, his powers and duties shall 
 devolve upon the Vice-President, and in the absence of both these 
 officers, upon a Chairman, who shall then be chosen for that 
 purpose. 
 
 3. — The Secretary. 
 
 The Secretary shall notify all meetings of the Corporation, and 
 of the Trustees, and shall attend and keep a record of all business 
 transacted at those meetings. He shall issue all notices to com- 
 mittees and others, conduct the correspondence of the Corporation, 
 and have the custody of their files and records except as herein 
 otherwise provided. He shall hold the seal of the Corporation, 
 and affix impressions of the same to all diplomas, deeds, and other 
 pajDers requiring such impression, conformably to these ordinances, 
 and to votes of the Corporation and of the Board of Trustees. 
 
 The seal shall remain the same that has been heretofore used 
 by the Corporation, substituting the words Columbian University 
 for Columbian College. 
 
 He shall have the custody of the plates from which are printed 
 the College diplomas, and shall cause such diplomas to be printed, 
 engrossed, and sealed, as may be directed by the Trustees or by 
 the Corporation. 
 
 \.-—The Treasurer. 
 
 The Treasurer, before entering upon his duties, shall give bond 
 in the sum of ten thousand dollars for the faithful performance of 
 said duties, with two or more sureties to the satisfaction of the 
 Executive Committee, which bond shall be deposited with, and 
 safely kept by said Committee. 
 
 He shall receive and receipt for to the party making payment, 
 
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 all moneys paid to him as Treasurer ; pay all bills approved by 
 the Executive Committee and none other, except salaries duly 
 established ; invest, as the Executive Committee and the President 
 of the Corporation shall jointly direct, the endowment funds of 
 the University; keep full and complete records, accounts, and 
 schedules of all such receipts, disbursements, and investments, 
 and of all the estate and property of the Corporation, and report 
 the same, duly vouched and certified by the Auditing Committee, 
 to the University at its annual meetings, and to the Trustees 
 whenever they may so direct. 
 
 The said annual report shall be sent, in print, to each member 
 of the Corporation, with the notice of the annual meeting. 
 
 The salary of the Secretary and Treasurer shall be fixed by the 
 Board of Trustees, but shall not, in the aggregate, exceed fifty 
 dollars a month. 
 
 5- — Executive Committee. 
 
 The Executive Committee, by such business agents as they may 
 designate, shall collect and pay over to the Treasurer all rents, in- 
 terest, dividends, subscriptions, tuition fees, and all other moneys 
 at any time due to the Corporation ; keep properly insured and in 
 good repair all buildings belonging to the University ; take care that 
 the grounds and fences, and matters thereto appertaining, be kept in 
 good condition ; and have, subject to the orders of the Corporation 
 and of the Trustees, the control and management of the property 
 and business affairs and interests of the University. 
 
 Said Committee shall meet once at least in every month for the 
 transaction of business, and shall keep a full record, by 'a clerk of 
 its own election, of all its doings, which record shall, at all times, 
 be subject to inspection by the Board of Trustees and Board of 
 Overseers. 
 
 Jointly with the Treasurer, the Executive Committee shall have 
 the custody of, and shall keep in some place of safe deposit selected 
 by said Committee, all deeds, mortgages, policies of insurance, 
 leases, bonds, shares, promissory notes, and all other scrip and 
 securities belonging to the Corporation, all of Avhich shall be 
 deposited in a safe with some safe-deposit company, the key to which 
 safe shall be held by the Treasurer, but which safe shall not be 
 opened except in presence of him and some other member of the 
 Executive Committee. 
 
The Vice-President of the University shall be chairuuiu of the 
 Executive Committee, of which Committee the President of the 
 Faculty shall be a member. 
 
 The business agents employed by the Executive Committee shall 
 receive such compensation as said Committee may direct : J^rooided, 
 That said compensation shall not exceed three per cent, on the 
 moneys collected and paid over to the Treasurer by said agents, 
 and provided that nothing shall be paid for the collection of 
 dividends or interest. 
 
 Once at least in each year, and oftener if required by the Board 
 of Trustees, the Executive Committee shall present to said Board 
 * full report of their doings from the date of their last preceding 
 report. 
 
 6. — Auditing Committee. 
 
 The Auditing Committee shall carefully examine all the Treas- 
 urer's accounts and vouchers, and endorse upon said accounts the 
 result of their examination, before such accounts are laid before 
 the Trustees. 
 
 7, 8, 9, 10. — Other Standing Committees. 
 
 Each of the other Standing Committees, twice at least in every 
 term of the School or College confided to its care, once near the 
 opening, and once near the close of each term, shall visit and care- 
 fully inspect the condition of said School or College, and make a 
 written report thereon to the Executive Committee, and the sub- 
 stance of those reports shall, by the Executive Committee, be 
 made known to the Board of Trustees'. 
 
 Article III. — Meetings of the Corporation. 
 
 ■ The annual meeting of the Corporation shall be held in the city 
 of AVashington, at 12 M., on the Tuesday' next before the last 
 Wednesday in June ; notices of which meeting shall be given in 
 writing, through the post-office, by the Secretary, to every Over- 
 seer and Trustee, including honorary Trustees, at least one week 
 before the day of meeting. 
 
 Upon the written application of seven Overseers, or of seven 
 Trustees, or of the Executive Committee, addressed to the Pres- 
 ident or acting President of the Corporation, a special meeting 
 
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 of the Corporation shall be called, upon such notice as is above 
 prescribed for the annual meeting, for the transaction of such 
 business only as may be specified in the notice. 
 
 The Trustees shall submit an annual report of the operations 
 of the University in all its departments at each annual meeting of 
 the Corporation ; which report shall, under the direction of the 
 Trustees, be prepared by the President of the Faculty, and shall 
 contain a full account of the affairs and condition of every Col- 
 lege and School of the University, together with such suggestions 
 as the Trustees may deem likely to promote the welfare of the 
 University, and the cause of good morals and sound learning. 
 
 The Corporation, at its annual meeting, shall take such action, 
 as it may deem needful in the election of President and Faculty 
 of the University and its several Colleges and Schools, and in re- 
 gard to any and all matters affecting the interests of the Corpo- 
 ration. 
 
 Article IV. — Meetings of the Trustees. 
 
 Once in each quarter-year, viz., on the second Wedaesday of 
 June, September, December, and March, there shall be a regular 
 meeting of the Board of Trustees for the transaction of such 
 business as may be lawfully brought before the meeting. 
 
 Special meetings of the Trustees may be called whenever the 
 President of the Corporation may direct, at which meetings only 
 such business shall be transacted as may be specified in the notice. 
 
 All meetings of the Trustees shall be notified by the Secretary, 
 by letter to each Trustee, mailed not less than two secular days 
 before the meeting. 
 
 The year of the Corporation, for all financial purjDOses, begins 
 at noon on the first Wednesday of June. 
 
 Article V. — Oiiorum. 
 
 In all cases not otherwise provided, a majority of the persons 
 entitled to attend and vote shall constitute a quorum for the 
 transaction of business. A smaller number may adjourn any 
 meeting. 
 
 Article VI. — Sales of Land and other Property. 
 
 None of the real estate of the University shall be sold by the 
 Trustees except such as they may be authorized to sell by the 
 
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 Corporation, and the concurrence of nine Trustees shall be neces- 
 sary to authorize any such sale. All deetls and conveyances of 
 the real estate of the University must have the signatures of the 
 President and Treasurer of the Corporation, and also of the 
 Chairman of the Executive Committee. 
 
 Aeticle VII. — Examinations, Commencements, and Exhibitions. 
 
 The Commencement of the Columbian College shall be held an- 
 nually on the second Wednesday in June ; that of the Law School 
 on the Tuesday next before the second Wednesday in June ; that 
 of the Medical College (after the year 1877-78) on the Tftsday 
 next after the second Wednesday in June ; and the annual Exhi- 
 bition of the Preparatory School on the Friday next after the 
 second Wednesday in June. 
 
 Whenever the Trustees shall so determine, any two or more of 
 said Commencements and Exhibitions may be combined and held 
 on one and the same day. 
 
 The Board of Trustees will determine at what hour and where 
 each and all of these anniversary celebrations shall be held. 
 
 No person will be allowed to deliver any address, or to take 
 any part in them, without the sanction of the Faculty of that Col- 
 lege or School. 
 
 No medal or other badge of merit, and no diploma or certificate 
 of any sort will be conferred at those anniversaries, excejDt by 
 direction or permission of the Board of Trustees, on the recom- 
 mendation of the several and respective Faculties of said Colleges 
 and Schools. 
 
 The President of the Faculty will preside at all of these cele- 
 brations, and, under the Trustees' direction, will determine what 
 seats shall be reserved, to whom such seats shall be assigned, and 
 what shall be the form and style of the invitations and cards is- 
 sued therefor. 
 
 At no Examination, Commencement, or Exhibition Avill the in- 
 troduction or use of any distilled spirit or fermented liquor be al- 
 lowed, on penalty of forfeiture of diploma to the offending party. 
 
 Article VIII. — Diplomas and Certificates. 
 
 All diplomas and certificates of Scholarship bestowed upon 
 graduates from the University, or any of its Scliools or Colleges, 
 
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 or upon any other person, shall be signed by the President of the 
 Faculty and by the Secretary of the Corporation. 
 
 The only charge for any diploma shall be the mere cost thereof, 
 assessed by the Executive Committee, and paid to the Treasurer. 
 
 Article IX. — Course of Instruction. 
 
 The present course of studies and instruction in all the depart- 
 ments of the University shall continue, subject to such changes as 
 may be made by the Corporation or by the Trustees. 
 
 Article X. — Free Instruction to Children of Professors and other 
 
 Teachers. 
 
 No tuition fee shall be charged for the instruction of the chil- 
 dren of any professor or teacher connected with the academic 
 department of this University, or for the tuition of any student 
 for the ministry of any denomination, who comes recommended 
 by the Church of which he is a member. 
 
 Article XI. — The Faculty. 
 
 The present corps of instruction, and their present rate of sal- 
 ary, shall be continued until the Board of Trustees shall other- 
 wise direct, and may be increased by the Trustees, subject to the 
 approval of the Corporation. 
 
 Article XII. — Names of the Colleges and Schools of the University. 
 
 The names of the several departments of instruction shall be as 
 follows, viz : 
 
 The Preparatory School of the Columbian College. 
 
 The Columbian College. 
 
 The Law School of the Columbian University. 
 
 The National Medical College of the Columbian University. 
 
 And no other name or title shall be used by the corps of in- 
 structors in these departments. 
 
 Article XIII. — College Laws. 
 
 All students connected with the University, in any of its Schools 
 or Colleges, shall be subject to such rules, not inconsistent with 
 these Ordinances and By-Laws, as may be established by their 
 respective Faculties, with the approval of the Board of Trustees. 
 
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 Article XIV. — Vacancies. 
 
 The place of any member of the Corporation who shall be 
 absent, without satisfactory reason, from two successive annual 
 meetings of the Corporation, shall be declared vacant. 
 
 Article XV. — Tuition Fees. 
 
 In all the Colleges and Schools connected with the University, 
 including the Preparatory School, every student must pay the tu- 
 ition fees, established by the Corporation or Boavd of Trustees, 
 within one month after they become due, or, failing to do this, 
 the delinquent student must not be allowed to receive any further 
 instruction until such fees are fully paid. 
 
 Article XVI. 
 
 All Ordinances, By-Laws, and votes of the Corporation at vari- 
 ance with the foregoing are rescinded and repealed. 
 
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