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CHARTER 
 
 OP THE 
 
 COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA, 
 
 m PEF^TSYLYA^TIA. 
 
 CHARTER 
 
 To Thomas Lawrence and others, to he Trustees of the Academy 
 and Charitable School in the Province of Pennsylvania. — \^th 
 July, 1753. 
 
 Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, true and absolute proprie- Preamble, 
 tors and governors in chief of the province of Pennsylvania and 
 counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, To all 
 persons to whom these presents shall come, greeting : Whereas, 
 the well-being of a society depends on the education of their youth, 
 as well as, in great measure, the eternal welfare of every individual, 
 by impressing on their tender minds principles of morality and reli- 
 gion, instructing them in the several duties they owe to the society 
 in which they live, and one towards another, giving them the 
 knowledge of languages, and other parts of useful learning neces- 
 sary thereto, in order to render them serviceable in the several 
 public stations to which they may be called. And whereas, it hath 
 been represented to us by Thomas Lawrence, William Allen, John 
 Inglis, Tench Francis, William Masters, Lloyd Zachary, Samuel 
 M’Call, junior, Joseph Turner, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Leech, 
 
 William Shippen, Robert Strettell, Philip Syng, Charles Willing, 
 
 Phineas Bond, Richard Peters, Abraham Taylor, Thomas Bond, 
 
 Joshua Maddox, William Plumstead, Thomas White, William 
 
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 Coleman, Isaac Norris, and Thomas Cadwalader, of our city of 
 Pliiladelphia, gentlemen, that for the erecting, establishing, and 
 maintaining an academy within our said city, as well to instruct 
 youth for reward, as poor children whose indigent and helpless 
 circumstances demand the charity of the opulent part of mankind, 
 several benevolent and charitable persons have generously paid, 
 and by subscriptions promised hereafter to pay, into their hands as 
 trustees, for the use of the said academy, divers sums of money, 
 which sums already paid, they, the said trustees, have expended in 
 the purchase of lands well situated, and a building commodious for 
 the uses aforesaid, within our said city in maintaining an academy 
 there as well for the instruction of poor children on charity, as 
 others whose circumstances have enabled them to pay for their 
 learning, for some time past, and in furnishing the said academy 
 with books, maps, mathematical instruments, and other necessaries 
 of general use therein, according to the intentions of the donors. 
 And whereas^ the said trustees to facilitate the progress of so good 
 a work, and to perfect and perpetuate the same, have humbly be- 
 sought us to incorporate them and their successors.* 
 
 * On the 15tli of September, 1740, Jonathan Price conveyed to Edmond 
 "Wooley, John Coats, John Howell, and William Price a lot of ground con- 
 taining 150 feet on the west side of Fourth, between Market and Mulberry 
 Streets, and in depth 198 feet. A considerable number of persons, of dif- 
 ferent denominations in religion, having united to erect a large building on 
 the lot, intending that the same should be appointed to the use of a charity 
 school for the instruction of poor children in useful literature and of 
 
 the Christian religion, and also that the same should be used as a house of 
 public worship, and that the use of said building should be under the direc- 
 tion of certain trustees, viz., George Whitfield, William Seward, John S. Bene- 
 zet, Thomas Noble, Samuel Hazard, Robert Eastburn, James Read, Edward 
 Evans, and Charles Brockden; who were “to appoint fit and able school- 
 masters and schoolmistresses for the service of said school, and introduce 
 such Protestant ministers to preach therein as they should judge sound in 
 principles, zealous, and faithful in the discharge of their duty, and acquainted 
 with the religion of the heart, and experimental piety, without any regard to 
 those distinctions of different sentiments in lesser matters, which have, to the 
 scandal of religion, unhappily divided real Christians” — to preserve the said 
 lot and buildings which then were or should thereafter be erected thereon, 
 the said Edmond Wooley, &c., by deed of the 14th November, 1740, to George 
 Whitfield, &c., did declare that they would thenceforth stand seised of said 
 lot, &c., in trust for the said George Whitfield and others, their heirs, &c,. 
 
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 Now know ye, That we favouring such pious, useful, generous, 
 and charitable designs, hoping, through the favour of Almighty 
 God, this academy may prove a nursery of virtue and wisdom, and 
 that it will produce men of dispositions and capacities beneficial to 
 mankind in the various occupations of life; but more particularly 
 suited to the infant state of North America in general, and for 
 
 and that they would convey the same to such persons and to such uses as the 
 said George Whitfield, &c., should nominate and appoint; and then reciting 
 that a large building had been erected on the premises, and to the end that 
 the same should be applied to the good and pious purposes originally intended, 
 the surviving cestui que uses appointed that the same should be conveyed to 
 James Logan, Thomas Lawrence, William Allen, John Inglis, Tench Francis, 
 William Masters, Lloyd Zachary, Samuel M’Call, jun., Joseph Turner, Benja- 
 min Franklin, Thomas Leech, William Shippen, Robert Strettell, Philip Syng, 
 Charles Willing, Phineas Bond, Richard Peters, Abraham Taylor, Thomas 
 Bond, Thomas Hopkins, William Plurastead, Joshua Maddox, Thomas White, 
 and William Coleman. On the 1st February, 1749, in pursuance of said 
 appointment, Edmond Wooley, and others conveyed the premises to William 
 Lawrence, &c., for the uses and trusts and subject to the agreement following : 
 
 “That in and upon the said ground, buildings, and premises, shall be 
 placed, erected, founded, established, or kept, by the said James Logan, &c,, 
 a house or place of public worship, and also one free school for the instruct- 
 ing, teaching, and education of poor children ; and that the said James Logan, 
 &c , and the survivors of them, and the assigns of such survivors shall have 
 full power, license, authority, at their will and pleasure, from time to time, 
 and at all times hereafter, to nominate and appoint to be taught and in- 
 structed therein, such number of poor children as shall be suitable to the 
 funds they shall have in their hands for that purpose, and to choose a com- 
 mittee of their number, yearly, to take special care of the said school, and like- 
 wise to nominate and appoint one or more learned, able, and sufficient person 
 or persons as master or masters, usher or ushers, mistress or mistresses, 
 to teach and instruct the said children gratis, in useful literature and the 
 knowledge of the Christian religion ; and likewise, from time to time, to 
 introduce such preacher or preachers, whom they shall judge qualified, to 
 preach and teach the word of God occasionally, in the said place of public 
 worship, but yet, so as that no particular sect be fixed there as a settled con- 
 gregation; and shall at all seasonable times permit and suffer, in his reason- 
 able turn, any regular minister of the gospel to preach in the house or place 
 on the premises which shall be set apart for public worship, who hath signed, 
 or hereafter shall sign, certain articles of religion, annexed to the deed, and 
 whom they shall moreover judge to be otherwise duly qualified as above, 
 and particularly shall permit the free and uninterrupted use of the said 
 place of worship to the Rev. Mr. George Whitfield, whenever he shall happen 
 
 Trustees in- 
 corporated. 
 
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 other causes and considerations us hereto specially moving, have 
 granted, ordained, declared, constituted, and appointed, and by 
 these presents we do, for us, our heirs, and successors grant, ordain, 
 declare, constitute, and appoint. That the said Thomas Lawrence, 
 William Allen, John Inglis, Tench Francis, William 'Masters, 
 Lloyd Zachary, Samuel M’Call, junior, Joseph Turner, Benjamin 
 Franklin, Thomas Leech, William Shippen, Robert Strettell, Phi- 
 lip Syng, Charles Willing, Phineas Bond, Richard Peters, Abra- 
 
 to be in the city, and desire to preach therein. And further, that the said 
 James Logan, &c., shall and may, from time to time, and at all times here- 
 after, at their will and pleasure, make, set down, and appoint such rules 
 and ordinances for the rule, government, and well ordering of the said place 
 of public worship and school, and of the said master or masters, mistress or 
 mistresses, usher or ushers, and children, for the time being, as to them or a 
 majority of them, the said James Logan, &c., shall seem meet and convenient, 
 so as such rules or ordinance, be consistent with, and shall not contain any 
 matter or thing contradictory to the true intent and design of these presents. 
 And further, that the said James Logan, &c., shall have full power to found, 
 erect, establish, and continue, in and upon the said house and premises, such 
 other school, academy, college, or other seminary of learning, for instruct- 
 ing youth in the languages, arts, and sciences, and generally to improve the 
 premises to such other use or uses for the benefit of mankind and the good 
 of society as to them shall seem meet, so that the same be not inconsistent 
 with the above declared originally intended uses which are bona fide to be 
 always fulfilled and preserved, and never impeded, interrupted, or discon- 
 tinued. And further, that the said James Logan, &c , shall be governors, 
 rulers, directors, and trustees, for the purpose herein contained and men- 
 tioned, until a charter of corporation from the governor of this province of 
 Pennsylvania, for the time being, to the said trustees, or the survivors of 
 them, or their assigns, shall be obtained for the uses and intents herein con- 
 tained. And as often as any ten or more of them, the said James Logan, &c., 
 or their successors, shall happen to die, the survivors of them shall bj-^ good 
 and sufficient conveyance or conveyances, assurance or assurances, in the 
 law, convey and assure all the said ground and buildings thereon erected, or 
 to be built and erected, with the appurtenances in fee simple, to and upon 
 the same uses, trusts, 'intents, and purposes, and subjected to and under the 
 same covenants and agreements herein contained and specified, to twenty- 
 four lawful, true, and honest Christian men, to be named and appointed by 
 the majoi’ity of the survivors of them, the said James Logan, &c., for the uses, 
 trusts, intents, and purposes aforesaid, so that, if possible, there may always 
 forever hereafter be the number of twenty-four such persons in being, to 
 rule, govern, order, and direct, in, about, and concerning the premises, and 
 the good purposes hereby intended.” 
 
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 ham Taylor, Thomas Bond, Joshua Maddox, William Plumstead, 
 
 Thomas White, William Coleman, Isaac Norris, and Thomas Cad- 
 walader, and such others, as shall be from time to time chosen, 
 nominated, or elected in their place and stead, shall be one com- 
 munity, corporation, and body politic, to have continuance forever, 
 by the name of The Trustees of the Academy and Charitable School 
 in the province of Pennsylvania, and that by the same name, they 
 shall have perpetual succession, and that they and their successors 
 by that name, shall be able and capable in law to purchase, have, 
 take, receive, and enjoy to them and their successors in fee and in 
 perpetuity, or for any other or lesser estate or estates, any manors, 
 lands, tenements, rents, annuities, pensions, or other hereditaments 
 within the said province of Pennsylvania or three lower counties 
 of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, 
 alienation, enfeoffment, release, confirmation, or devise of any per- 
 son or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to make the 
 same. And further, that they may take and receive any sum or 
 sums of money, or any kind, manner, or portion of goods or chat- 
 tels that shall to them be given, granted, or bequeathed by any 
 person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to make a 
 gift, grant, or bequest thereof; and therewith to erect, set up, 
 maintain, and support an academy or any other kind of seminary 
 of learning in any place within the said province of Pennsylvania, 
 where they shall judge the same to be most necessary and conve- 
 nient for the instruction, improvement, and education of youth in 
 any kind of literature, erudition, arts, and sciences, which they 
 shall think fitting and proper to be taught. And we do hereby 
 grant and ordain. That the said trustees and their successors by 
 the name aforesaid, shall be able in law to sue and be sued, plead to sue, &c. 
 and be impleaded in any court or courts, before any judge, judges, 
 or justices within the said province of Pennsylvania, the three 
 lower counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, and elsewhere ; 
 in all and all manner of suits, complaints, pleas, causes, matters, 
 and demands of whatsoever kind, nature, or form they be; and all 
 and every other matters and things therein to do in as full, ample, 
 and effectual a manner, as any other person or persons, bodies 
 politic or corporate within that part of the kingdom of Great Bri- 
 tain called England, or within the said province of Pennsylvania, or 
 three lower counties in the like cases may or can do. And we 
 do hereby give and grant unto the said trustees and their success- 
 
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 To have a oi’s, fall DOwer and authority to make, have, and use a common 
 
 common i i i 
 
 seal. seal \vith such stamp and inscription as they shall think proper ; 
 
 and the same to change, break, alter, and renew at their pleasure. 
 {And further , in order to continue and perpetuate this community 
 removal^ &c^ Corporation, We do grants ordain, and declare, that when any 
 
 of a trustee, one or more of the present or future trustees of this academy and 
 cated. school, shall remoye his or their habitation or habitations, and 
 shall dwell at the distance of five miles from the seat of the said 
 academy at that time, or shall go and reside out of the province 
 of Pennsylvania, although at a place nearer to the said academy 
 than five miles, or shall happen to die or be otherwise disabled from 
 performing the office and duty of a trustee or trustees, the other 
 trustees shall, as soon after as they conveniently can, proceed to 
 elect and choose one or more fit person or persons, then residing 
 wdthin five miles of the said academy, and within the said province, 
 to fill the place or places of such absenting, deceased, or disabled 
 person or persons.)* And we do also, for us, our heirs, and suc- 
 cessors, give and grant to the said trustees and corporation, and 
 their successors, full power and authority in all time and times 
 coming, to make, ordain, and enact all such rules, ordinances, laws, 
 and statutes, and from time to time to alter and amend the same 
 as they shall judge most convenient, reasonable, and needful for 
 the good government of the said community, the management of 
 the affairs thereof, and the effectual promotion of the good ends 
 hereby intended; provided always. That the said rules, ordinances, 
 laws, and statutes, be not repugnant to the laws and statutes then 
 in force in the kingdom of Great Britain, or to the laws then in 
 force in our said province of Pennsylvania. And lastly, We do, 
 for us and our successors, grant, declare, and ordain. That these 
 our letters patent and charter, and every clause, sentence, and 
 article herein contained shall be in all things firm, valid, sufficient, 
 and effectual in the law unto the said trustees, community, and 
 corporation, and their successors, according to the purport and 
 tenor hereof, without any further grant or toleration from us, our 
 heirs, or successors, to be procured or obtained. In witness 
 whereof, we have caused these our letters to be made patent; icit- 
 7iess, James Hamilton, Esq., lieutenant governor and commander 
 
 This part of the section is omitted in the additional charter, 1755, post. 
 
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 in chief, in and over the said province of Pennsylvania, at the city 
 of Philadelphia, the thirteenth day of July, in the twenty-seventh 1753. 
 year of the reign of our sovereign lord, George the Second, who 
 now is king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c., and in the 
 year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-three. 
 
 JAMES HAMILTON. (L. S.) 
 
 Recorded I6th July, 1153, in Commission Book, Book A, vol. 
 
 2, page 150. 
 
 ADDITIO^TAL OHAETER. 
 
 16th JUNE, 1755. Orig. dated 
 
 14May,17o5. 
 
 Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, true and absolute proprieta- 
 ries of the province of Pennsylvania, and counties of New Castle, 
 
 Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, to all persons to whom these 
 presents shall come, greeting: 
 
 Whereas it was heretofore represented to us, by Thomas Law- Preamble, 
 rence, William Allen, John Inglis, Tench Francis, William Mas- 
 ters, Lloyd Zachary, Samuel M’Call, junior, Joseph Turner, 
 
 Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Leech, William Shippen, Robert 
 Strettell, Philip Syng, Charles Willing, Phineas Bond, Richard 
 Peters, Abraham Taylor, Thomas Bond, Joshua Maddox, William 
 Plurastead, Thomas White, William Coleman, Isaac Norris, and 
 Thomas Cadwalader, of our city of Philadelphia, gentlemen : That 
 they had, at their own expense, and by the donations of many well 
 disposed persons, set up and maintained an academy within our said 
 city, as well for instructing youth for reward, as poor children on 
 charity, and praying us to incorporate them and their successors, 
 for the more effectual carrying on and establishing the same: — 
 
 And whereas we, being desirous to encourage such pious, useful. Trustees in- 
 and charitable designs, hoping that the said academy, through 
 blessing of Almighty God, would prove a nursery of wisdom and 
 virtue, and be the means of raising up men, of dispositions and 
 qualifications beneficial to the public, in the various occupations of 
 life, and for other causes and considerations us thereto specially 
 moving, did, for us, our heirs and successors, by our charter, under 
 the great seaP of our said province, grant, ordain, declare, consti- 
 tute and appoint. That the said Thomas Lawrence, William Allen, 
 
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 Confirma- 
 tion of the 
 first charter 
 
 One article 
 excepted. 
 
 John Inglis, Tench Francis, William Masters, Lloyd Zachary, 
 Samuel M’Call, junior, Joseph Turner, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas 
 Leech, William Shippen, Robert Strettell, Philip Syng, Charles 
 Willing, Phineas Bond, Richard Peters, Abraham Taylor, Thomas 
 Bond, Joshua Maddox, William Plumstead, Thomas White, Wil- 
 liam Coleman, Isaac Norris, and Thomas Cadwalader, and their 
 successors, duly elected and nominated in their place and stead, 
 should be one corporation and body politic, to have continuance 
 for ever, by the name of The Trustees of the Academy and Chari- 
 table School in the province of Pennsylvania, capable to purchase 
 and hold lands, to receive donations, to sue and be sued, to have 
 and to use a common seal, to make rules and statutes, and to do 
 everything needful for the good government and perfect establish- 
 ment of the said academy, or of any other kind of seminary of 
 learning, which they should think fit to erect, maintain, and sup- 
 port in any place within the said province of Pennsylvania, for 
 the instruction of youth in any kind of literature, arts, and sciences, 
 as by our said charter, enrolled in our recorder’s office for the said 
 province, at the city of Philadelphia aforesaid; may more fully and 
 at large appear. 
 
 Now know ye, That we do, for us, our heirs and successors, by 
 . these presents, approve of, ratify, and fully confirm to the said 
 trustees and their successors, all and singular the premises, together 
 with all and singular the matters, clauses, sentences, and articles 
 contained in our said letters patent and charter, excepting only 
 one article,* by these our present letters and charter altered and 
 changed. 
 
 Wherefore, by the advice and consent of the said trustees, know ye, 
 That we do will and ordain, that the present trustees of the said 
 academy, to wit: James Hamilton, William Allen, John Inglis, 
 Tench Francis, William Masters, Lloyd Zachary, Samuel M’Call, 
 junior, Joseph Turner, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Leech, Wil- 
 liam Shippen, Robert Strettell, Philip Syng, Phineas Bond, Joshua 
 Maddox, William Plumstead, Thomas White, William Coleman, 
 Thomas Cadwalader, Alexander Stedman, and John Mifflin, and 
 such other persons as shall from time to time be nominated or 
 chosen in their place and stead, according to the order and direc- 
 tion of our said recited letters and charter, shall be one community. 
 
 * Relating to the removal of trustees from the city, &c. See page 8. 
 
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 corporation, and body politic, to have continuance forever, by the 
 name of ^^The Trustees of the College, Academy, and Charitahle^iyiQ. 
 School of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania,^'' and that, 
 by the same name, they shall have perpetual succession. 
 
 And we do hereby, for us, our heirs and successors, grant, ordain, Recital of 
 and declare. That the said trustees and their successors, by thatS^thrchar- 
 name, shall be able and capable in law, to purchase, have, receive. Trustees to 
 take, hold, and enjoy, to them and their successors in fee and per- and^^alke 
 petuity, or for any other lesser estate or estates, any manors, lands, 
 tenements, rents, annuities, pensions, or other hereditaments, within 
 the said province of Pennsylvania, or three lower counties of New 
 Castle, Kent, and Sussex, upon Delaware, by the gift, grant, bar- 
 gain, sale, alienation, enfeoffment, release, confirmation, or devise 
 of any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to 
 make the same ; and such manors, lands, tenements, rents, annui- 
 ties, pensions, or other hereditaments, or any lesser estates, rights, 
 or interests of or in the same, at their pleasure to grant, alien, And to alien 
 sell and transfer in such manner and form as they shall think meet 
 and convenient ; and further, that they may take and receive any 
 sum or suras of money, and any kind, manner, or portion of goods 
 and chattels that shall be given, sold, or bequeathed to them by 
 any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to make 
 a gift, sale, or bequest thereof, and therewith to erect, set up, and 
 maintain any other kind of seminary of learning, in any place To maintain 
 within the said province of Pennsylvania, where they shall judge kiud^oftem- 
 the same most necessary and convenient for the instruction, 
 provement, and education of youth, in any kind of literature, arts, 
 and sciences, which they shall think proper to be taught. 
 
 And we do hereby grant and ordain, That the said trustees and 
 their successors, by the name in this charter mentioned, shall be 
 able in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any May sue, &c. 
 court or courts, before any judge, judges, or justices within our 
 said province of Pennsylvania, the three lower counties of New 
 Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, and elsewhere, in all and 
 all manner of suits, complaints, pleas, causes, matters, and demands, 
 of whatsoever kind, nature, or form they be; and all and every 
 other matter and thing therein to do, in as full and effectual a 
 manner as any other person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, 
 within that part of Great Britain called England, or within the 
 said province of Pennsylvania, or three lower counties aforesaid, in 
 the like cases may or can do. 
 
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 To have pub- And WB do herelv give and grant unto the said trustees nnd their 
 
 lie and privy ^ 
 
 seal. successors, full power and authority to make, have, and use one 
 common public seal, and likewise one privy seal, with such devices 
 and inscription as they shall think proper; and the same, or either 
 of them, to change, break, alter, and renew at their pleasure. 
 Preamble to ^nd whereas the said trustees have, by their petition to Robert 
 a^po'^eJ-s^'^’ H unter Morris, Esq., our Lieutenant Governor and Commander 
 in Chief in and over our said province of Pennsylvania, and coun- 
 ties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, represented, 
 That since our granting our said recited charter, the academy 
 therein mentioned, by the blessing of Almighty God, is greatly 
 improved, being now well provided with masters, not only in the 
 learned languages, but also in the liberal arts and sciences, and 
 that one class of hopeful students has now attained to that station 
 in learning and science, by which, in all well constituted semina-, 
 ries, youth are entitled to their first degree, and which the said 
 students are earnestly desirous to be admitted to ; and that it is 
 hoped, from the capacities and diligence of this class, they will 
 hereafter merit admission to the higher degrees in the arts and 
 sciences ; from whence the said trustees reasonably expect a suc- 
 cession of youth in this college and academy, equally meritorious 
 and deserving of such public honors, which are at the same time 
 the strongest incentives to, and the justest rewards of diligence 
 and merit; and therefore prayed an addition to our recited charter, 
 to empower them and their successors to admit deserving students 
 to the usual degrees, and to confer such dignity on the masters in 
 the said seminary, as shall seem meet and necessary for its good 
 government and establishment upon this enlargement of the design, 
 for the benefit both of the present and future times. And we 
 being willing to grant this reasonable request of the said trustees, 
 and to give all proper encouragement to an institution so happily 
 begun, and hitherto so successfully carried on, for the benefit of 
 our said province, as well as the neighbouring provinces and colo- 
 nies in America : - 
 
 Trustees to Now Icnoiv ye also, That we do hereby, for us, our heirs and 
 provost and succcssoi’s, give aiid grant full power and authority to the said 
 vice provost their successors, from time to time, and at all times 
 
 forever hereafter, in such manner, and under such limitations as 
 they shall think best and most convenient, to constitute and ap- 
 point a Provost and Yice-Provost of the said college and academy, 
 who shall be severally named and styled Provost and Yice-Provost 
 
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 of the same. And also to nominate and appoint professors for Profeseors. 
 instructing the students of the same seminary, in all the liberal 
 arts and sciences, the ancient languages and the English tongue, 
 who shall be severally styled Professor of such art, science, lan- 
 guage, or tongue, according to each particular nomination and 
 appointment; which Provost, Yice-Provost, and Professors, so Faculty, 
 constituted and appointed, shall be known and distinguished as 
 one body and faculty, by the name of The Provost, Vice-Provost, 
 and Professors of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, in the 
 province of Pennsylvania ; and by that name shall be capable of 
 exercising such powers and authorities as the said trustees and 
 their successors shall think necessary to delegate to them, for the 
 discipline and government of the said college, academy, and cha- 
 ritable school : Provided ahvays, That the said trustees, the Pro- Trustees 
 
 " and faculty 
 
 vost, and Yice-Provost, and each Professor, before they shall to take the 
 exercise their several and respective powers or authorities, offices, 
 and duties, do and shall take and subscribe the three first written 
 oaths appointed to be taken and subscribed, in and by one act of 
 Parliament, passed in the first year of the reign of our late sove- 
 reign lord, George the first, intituled. An Act for the further 
 security of his Majesty’s Person and Government ; and the Suc- 
 cession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, 
 being protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended 
 Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors; and shall also 
 make and subscribe the declaration appointed to be made and 
 subscribed by one other act of parliament, passed in the twenty- 
 fifth year of the reign of king Charles the second, intituled. An 
 Act for preventing dangers which may happen from popish recu- 
 sants; excepting only the people called Quakers, who, upon taking, 
 making, and subscribing the affirmations and declarations ap- 
 pointed to be taken, made, and subscribed, by the acts of General 
 Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, to qualify them for the 
 exercise of civil offices, shall be admitted to the exercise of all and 
 every the powers, authorities, offices, and duties above mentioned, 
 any thing in this provision to the contrary notwithstanding ; all 
 which oaths and affirmations we do hereby authorize and empower 
 the lieutenant governor of our said province, or the mayor or 
 recorder of the city of Philadelphia, aforesaid, or any two justices 
 of the peace, for the time being, to administer. 
 
 Which said trustees, and their successors, being qualified as 
 
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 hereby directed, we do, hy these presents, for us, our heirs, and 
 successors, establish in their several and respective offices, to have, 
 hold, and enjoy, all and singular the privileges, liberties, advan- 
 tages, powers, and immunities, herein or hereby given and granted, 
 or meant, mentioned, or intended, to be herein or hereby given 
 and granted, unto them and their successors for ever. 
 
 And we do hereby, at the desire and request of the said trustees, 
 
 vost and ^ ^ 
 
 Tice-proTost. Constitute and appoint the Reverend William Smith, M.A., to be 
 the first and present provost of the said college and academy, and 
 the Reverend Francis Allison, M. A,, to be the first and present 
 vice-provost of the same, who shall also retain the name and style 
 of Rector of the Academy; which offices the said persons shall 
 have and hold only during the pleasure of the said trustees. 
 
 Meetings And we do further, for us, our heirs, and successors, authorize 
 
 and quo- 
 rums of the the said trustees and their successors, to meet on such day or days, 
 
 trustees. , i i, , , • i i , 
 
 as they shall by their laws and statutes appoint, to examine the 
 candidates for admission to degrees in the said college and academy, 
 and also to transact, determine, and settle all the business and 
 affairs of the same. And we do will and ordain, that at all those 
 meetings, such a number of members so met and convened, as shall 
 by the laws and statutes be authorized to transact any particular 
 affairs or business, and the majority of them shall have full power 
 to transact, determine, and settle such affairs and business, in as 
 ample and effectual a manner as if all the said trustees were pre- 
 sent; excepting always the nominating, constituting, and discharg- 
 ing the provost, vice-provost, and professors, or any of them ; in 
 all and every of which acts, there shall be thirteen at least of the 
 members of the said corporation present and consenting. 
 
 To make And we do further, for us, our heirs, and successors, authorize 
 empower and empower the said trustees, and their successors, met from time 
 to time as aforesaid, to make laws and statutes to regulate, ascer- 
 tain, and settle the precedence, powers, and duties of the said pro- 
 vost, vice-provost (or rector), and professors, in the execution of 
 the laws made, or to be made, for the education of the youth, and 
 wholesome government of the said college, academy, and charitable 
 To delegate scliool ; aiid also by these laws and statutes, in such manner and 
 ty a^power^' fomi as they shall think convenient, to empower the provost, vice- 
 tei^orary provost, and professors, for the time being, to make and execute 
 ordinances, for preserving good order, obedience, and government, 
 as well among the students and scholars, as the several tutors, 
 
 the faculty 
 to execute 
 them. 
 
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 officers, and ministers, belonging to the said college, academy, and 
 charitable school ; and further, by the said laws and statutes, to 
 enact all other matters and things, in and concerning the premises, 
 which may by the said trustees and their successors be thought 
 conducive to the well-being, advancement, and perpetuating the 
 said college, academy, and corporation ; 'provided al'wa'ys, that the 
 said laws be not repugnant to the laws and statutes then in force 
 in the kingdom of Great Britain, nor to the laws and statutes then 
 in force in our said province of Pennsylvania. 
 
 And we do further, for us, our heirs and successors, give and 
 grant to the trustees of the said college and academ'g. That for ani- 
 mating and encouraging the students thereof to a laudable dili- 
 gence, industry, and progress in useful literature and science, they 
 and their successors, met together on such day or days as they 
 shall appoint for that purpose, shall have full power and authority, 
 by the provost, and in his absence by the vice-provost, and in the 
 absence of both the provost and vice-provost, by the senior pro- 
 fessor, or any other fit person by them authorized and appointed, 
 to admit any the students within the said college and academy, or 
 any other person or persons meriting the same, to any degree or Degrees 
 degrees, in any of the faculties, arts, and sciences, to which per- 
 sons are usually admitted, in any or either of the universities or 
 colleges in the kingdom of Great Britain. y, And we do ordaiw^ 
 
 That the provost, vice-provost, or other person appointed as afore- 
 said, shall make, and with his name, sign diplomas or certificates 
 of the admission to such degree or. degrees, which shall be sealed 
 with the public seal of the said corporation, and delivered to the/ 
 graduates as honourable and perpetual testimonials thereof ; pro- 
 vided always, and it is hereby declared to be our true meaning and 
 express will. That no student or students, within the said college 1 
 and academy, shall ever, or at any time or times hereafter, be ad- j 
 mitted to any such degree or degrees, until such student or students j 
 have been first recommended and presented as worthy of the same, j 
 by a written mandate, given under the hands of at least thirteen Mandamus 
 of the trustees of the said college and academy, and sealed with to be signed 
 the privy seal belonging to the said corporation, after a public 
 examination of such student or students in their presence, and in 
 the presence of any other persons choosing to attend the same, to 
 be had in the hall of the said college and academy, at least one 
 whole month before the admission to such degree or degrees j ' 
 
 ■x/ 
 
'provided further, That no person or persons, excepting the stu- 
 dents belonging to the said seminary, shall ever, at any time or 
 times, be admitted to any such degree or degrees, unless with the 
 For others, express mandate of at least two-thirds of the whole number of 
 
 by two- 
 
 thirds. trustees, first to be obtained under their hands and the privy seal 
 aforesaid, to the provost, vice-provost, and professors of the said 
 college and academy directed. 
 
 And lastly, we do, for us and our successors, grant, declare, and 
 ordain. That these our letters patent and charter, and every clause, 
 sentence and article herein contained, shall be in all things firm, 
 valid, sufficient, and effectual in the law, unto the said trustees, 
 community, and corporation, and their successors, according to the 
 purport and tenor hereof, without any further grant or toleration 
 from us, our heirs and successors, to be procured or obtained ; pro- 
 vided always. That the clear yearly value of the messuages, houses, 
 manors, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, or other hereditaments 
 Estate not to and real estate of the said corporation, do not exceed the sum of 
 per annum. five thousand pounds sterling. In testimony whereof, we have 
 caused these our letters to be made patent, and the great seal of 
 our said province to be hereunto affixed. Witness, Robert Hun- 
 ter Morris, Esq., our lieutenant governor and commander in chief, 
 in and over our said province of Pennsylvania, and counties of New 
 Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware; this fourteenth day of May, 
 in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of our sovereign lord, George 
 the second, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c., and 
 in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five. 
 
 ROBERT HUNTER MORRIS. 
 Recorded 16th June, 1155, Book A, vol. 2, page 193. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 Vol. I. To confirm the estates and interests of the college, academy, and 
 p. 474 . ’’ charitable school of the city of Philadelphia, and to amend and 
 
 alter the charters thereof, conformably to the revolution and to the 
 constitution and government of this commonwealth, and to erect 
 the same into a university. — 27^^ November, 1779. 
 
 Preamble. Sect. 1. Whereas, the education of youth has ever been found 
 to be of the most essential consequence, as well to the good govern- 
 ment of states and the peace and welfare of society, as to the profit 
 
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 and ornament of individuals, insomuch that from the experience 
 of all ages, it appears that seminaries of learning, when properly 
 conducted, have been public blessings to mankind, and that on the 
 contrary, when in the hands of dangerous and disaffected men, 
 they have troubled the peace of society, shaken the government, 
 and often caused tumult, sedition, and bloodshed. 
 
 Sect. 2. A^id whereas the college, academy, and charitable 
 school of the city of Philadelphia, were at first founded on a plan 
 of free and unlimited Catholicism; but it appears that the trustees 
 thereof, by a vote or by-law of their board, bearing date the four- 
 teenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven 
 hundred and sixty-four,* have departed from the plan of the origi- 
 nal founders, and narrowed the foundation of the said institution. 
 
 * On the minutes of the 14th June, 1764, a letter from the archbishop of 
 Canterbury, Thomas and Richard Penn, and Samuel Chandler, addressed to 
 the trustees, is inserted, in which they are congratulated on the success of 
 Dr, Smith’s, the provost’s collection, in England, and advised of what would 
 be further necessary to the due improvement of the collection and the future 
 prosperity of the institution. “ That the institution was originally founded 
 “and carried on for the general benefit of a mixed body of people — that on 
 “the king’s brief it is represented as-a seminary that would be of great use 
 “for securing capable instructors and teachers, as well for the service of the 
 “society for propagating the gospel in foreign parts, as for other protestant 
 “ denominations in the colonies.” — That at the time of making the collection, 
 “the provost was a clergyman of the church of England — the vice-provost, 
 “a presbyterian — a principal professor, a baptist, with other useful profes- 
 “ sors and tutors, all carrying on the education of youth with great harmony, 
 “and people of various denominations have heretofore contributed liberally 
 “and fully,” — That jealousies had arisen lest the foundation should be nar- 
 rowed, and some party exclude the rest, or put them on a worse footing than 
 they have been or were at the time of the collection, which would be unjust 
 and productive of contentions unfinendly to religion. It was therefore recom- 
 mended to the trustees, by the writers of the letter (who had a principal share 
 in procuring the collection), to make a fundamental rule or declaration, to 
 prevent inconvenience of this kind ; and in doing which, they were advised 
 that the more closely they kept in view the plan on which the seminary was 
 at the time of the royal brief, and on which it was carried on from the begin- 
 ning, so much the less cause would any party have to be dissatisfied. 
 
 A committee having been appointed to frame a fundamental Resolve or de- 
 claration, in consequence of the letter, the following was reported and adopted : 
 
 “The trustees being ever desirous to promote the peace and prosperity of 
 this seminary, and to give satisfaction to all its Avorthy benefactors, have 
 taken the above letter into their serious consideration, and perfectly approv- 
 2 
 
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 Former Sect. 3. Be it therefore enacted^ &c., That the charter of the 
 
 charter de- . i i i i • • n -r* 
 
 dared void. Said Seminary, granted by the late proprietaries of Pennsylvania, 
 bearing date the thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord 
 one thousand seven hundred and fifty-three, whereby certain per- 
 sons were incorporated by the name, style, and title of The Trustees 
 of the Academy and Charitable School in the province of Penn- 
 sylvania, and the additional charter, granted by the same proprie- 
 taries, bearing date on the fourteenth day of May, in the year of 
 our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five, by which the 
 trustees of the same academy and charitable school were again 
 incorporated, by the name, style, and title of The Trustees of the 
 College, Academy, and Charitable School of the city of Philadel- 
 phia, in the province of Pennsylvania, together with all and sin- 
 gular the rights, powers, privileges, emoluments, and advantages, 
 and also all the estates, claims, and demands to the same corpora- 
 tion belonging, discharged from the afore recited vote or by-law 
 of the said trustees, confining and narrowing the true and original 
 plan of the said institution, which vote or by-law, and all others, 
 contrary to the true design and spirit of the said charter, are hereby 
 declared to be void, be and they are in and by this act, ratified and 
 confirmed to, and for the use and benefit of the same seminary for 
 ever. 
 
 Sect. 4. And to the end that the trustees hereinafter named and 
 appointed may be the better enabled to effectuate the pious and 
 
 ing the sentiments therein contained, do order the same to be inserted in 
 their books, that it may remain perpetually declaratory of the present wide 
 and excellent plan of this institution, which hath not only met with the 
 approbation of the great and worthy personages above mentioned, but even 
 the royal patronage of his majesty himself. They further declare that they 
 will keep this plan closely in their view, and use their utmost endeavors that 
 the same he not narrowed^ nor the members of the church of England, or 
 those dissenting from them {in any future election to the ^principal offices men- 
 tioned in the aforesaid letter), be put on any worse footing in this seminary, 
 than they were at the time of obtaining the royal brief. They subscribe this 
 with their names, and ordain that the same be read and subscribed by every 
 new trustee that shall hereafter be elected, before he takes his seat at the 
 board.” Which appears to have been done from the year 1764, until the 
 union of the college with the university, which took place in the year 1791. 
 [It is difficult to perceive in what respect this resolution narrowed the founda- 
 tion of the institution.] 
 
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 praiseworthy designs of the founders, benefactors, and contributors 
 of the said college, academy, and charitable school of Philadelphia. 
 
 Sect. 5. Be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful Executive 
 
 , T council to re- 
 fer the supreme executive council of this state to reserve such and serve confis- 
 
 so many of the confiscated estates, yet unsold and unappropriated, not sold. 
 
 as to them shall appear necessary, in order to create a certain fund 
 
 for the maintenance of the provost, vice-provost, masters, and 
 
 assistants, and to uphold and preserve the charitable school of the 
 
 said university. 
 
 Sect. 6. Provided always, That the yearly income of such incomo not 
 
 ^ . . to exceed 
 
 estates, so reserved and appropriated to the use of the said uni-i5ooz. 
 versity, do not exceed the sum of fifteen hundred pounds, com- 
 puting wheat at the rate of ten shillings per bushel. i 
 
 Sect. t. And 'provided also, That such reservation be from time Legislature 
 to time laid before the general assembly of this state, for their 
 approbation and confirmation. 
 
 Sect. 8. Provided always, and he it enacted. That the ratifying proviso, 
 and confirming the said charter, or any thing herein contained, 
 shall not extend or be construed to extend to the confirmation or 
 establishing any of the said trustees, in the said charter named, or 
 deriving by any election, or pretended election, or appointment by^ 
 from, or under them, or any of them, nor to any provost, vice- 
 provost, professor, or other minister or officer of the said seminary, 
 other than such as are hereby, or may hereafter be appointed (the 
 said board and the faculty being hereby dissolved and vacated), 
 nor shall the same extend to such parts of the charter, as in and 
 by this act are or may be abrogated, annulled, altered, or supplied. — 
 
 Sect. 9. And he it further enacted, That from and after the Trustees 
 passing of this act, the superintendence and trust, together with 
 all and singular the powers, authorities, and estates, real, personal, 
 and mixed, of the said college, academy, and charitable school, 
 shall pass to, devolve upon, and be vested in the president of the 
 supreme executive council of this commonwealth, the vice-president 
 of the same council, the speaker of the general assembly, the chief 
 justice of the supreme court of judicature, the judge of admiralty, i 
 and the attorney-general for the time being, in virtue of their | 
 several offices, and the senior minister in standing of the episcopal 
 churches and congregations, and the senior minister in standing 
 of the presbyterian churches, and the senior minister in standing 
 of the baptist churches, and the senior minister in standing of 
 the Lutheran churches, and the senior minister in standing in the 
 
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 German calvinist churches, and the senior minister in standing 
 in the Roman churches, whose churches or houses of public wor- 
 ship are or shall be in the city of Philadelphia, or within two miles 
 of the old court house in High Street, in the said city, together 
 with the honourable Benjamin Franklin, doctor of laws, minister 
 plenipotentiary from the United States of America to his most 
 Christian majesty ; the honourable William Shippen, Frederick 
 Muhlenberg, and James Searle, esquires, delegates in the congress 
 of the said United States for Pennsylvania; the honourable William 
 Augustus Atlee, esquire, and the honourable John Evans, esquire, 
 justices of the supreme court of judicature ; Timothy Matlack, 
 esquire, secretary of the supreme executive council of this state ; 
 David Rittenhouse, esquire, treasurer of this state : Jonathan Bay- 
 ard Smith, esquire; Samuel Morris, senior, esquire; George Bry- 
 an, esquire; Thomas Bond, doctor of physic; and James Hutchin- 
 son, doctor of physic; which said civil ofiBcers, ministers of the 
 gospel, and others herein mentioned and appointed, for and during 
 their continuance in the said office and stations respectively, their 
 abode in this state, and lawful capacity to act, and their successors 
 for ever hereafter, shall be, remain, and continue the trustees afore- 
 
 coiiege said, by the name, style, and title of The Trustees of the Uni- 
 
 TiSttrsity. VERSiTY OF THE State OF PENNSYLVANIA, and shall from henceforth 
 have, hold, use, exercise, and enjoy all the powers, authorities, and 
 advantages of the estates, rights, claims, and demands of the trus- 
 tees appointed by, or in pursuance of the charters of the said cor- 
 poration, or either of them, instead of the said trustees appointed by, 
 or deriving under the said charter, or pretending so to do, in trust, 
 nevertheless, for the proper use of the said university for ever. 
 
 Proviso." Sect. 10. Provided always, That if any trustee of the said uni- 
 versity shall take any charge or office under the said trustees, 
 other than that of treasurer, his place shall thereby be vacated, and 
 in the case of a minister of the gospel taking such charge or office, 
 or neglecting to qualify according to the directions of this act, 
 within one month after personal notice given of his coming to such 
 trust, the next minister in seniority, of the same denomination, 
 shall succeed him, such seniority to be accounted from the time of 
 settlement of such person as minister of a congregation in or near 
 the said city. 
 
 Choice of Sect. 11. Provided, also. That in case the choice of a new trus- 
 
 ap^provedby tcc, in tlic Tooiu aiid stcad of any of the persons last named, or 
 
 legislature. 
 
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 their successors, shall be disallowed by the house of assembly 
 within six months, the trustees shall be obliged to make choice of 
 some other person. 
 
 Sect. 12 . And he it further enacted, That instead of the oath 
 or affirmation and declaration which were enjoined and required 
 to be taken and made, by the second or additional charter, herein 
 before referred to, of the said corporation, by the trustees, pro- 
 vost, vice-provost, and professors of the said college, academy, 
 and charitable school, which oath or affirmation and declaration, 
 being totally inconsistent with the independence and constitution 
 of this commonwealth, are hereby abrogated and repealed, the 
 said trustees herein before appointed, and their successors, and 
 the provost, vice-provost, and professors, and every of them, here- 
 after to be appointed in such manner and form as herein is directed 
 and required, before he or they enter upon the duties of their trust 
 or office, shall before two justices of the peace of the city of Phil- 
 adelphia, or of some county of this state, take and subscribe the 
 oath or affirmation prescribed by the fortieth section of the con- New one 
 
 * appointed. 
 
 stitution of this commonwealth, to be taken by the officers of this 
 state; and also the oath or affirmation of allegiance, directed to 
 be taken by the same officers, in and by the seventh and eighth 
 sections of an act of assembly, made and passed the fifth day of 
 December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred 
 and seventy-eight, intituled, further supplement to the act, inti- 
 tuled, “An Act for the further security of the government,” and 
 shall also take an oath or affirmation for the faithful discharge of 
 their trust of office aforesaid. 
 
 Sect. 13 . And be it further enacted That all and every the Formerpow- 
 
 1 .1.11 1 make 
 
 clause and clauses in the said charters, wherein and whereby the i-uies, de- 
 trnstees of the said college, academy, and charitable schools are 
 directed and enjoined to make their rules,'ordinances, and statutes, 
 not repugnant to the laws in force in the kingdom of Great Bri- 
 tain, nor to the laws in force in the province of Pennsylvania, be, 
 and they are hereby annulled, repealed, and made void; and the 
 trustees herein and hereby appointed, are required and enjoined to 
 review the rules, ordinances, and statutes heretofore made by the 
 former trustees of the said seminary, which, so far as they are re- 
 pugnant to the constitution and laws of this state, are hereby 
 repealed, and to frame the same, if necessary, and all rules, ordi- 
 nances, and statutes hereafter to be made, consistent with the con- 
 stitution and laws of this commonwealth. 
 
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 Matters to be 
 determined 
 by a major- 
 ity of seven, 
 except, &c. 
 
 Former lim- 
 itation de- 
 clared void. 
 
 Power to 
 sue, &c. 
 
 Penalty on 
 former trus- 
 tees, &c., ne- 
 glecting or 
 refusing to 
 deliver up 
 books, re- 
 cords, &c. 
 
 Sect. 14. And he it further enacted, That the business of the 
 said corporation shall and may be transacted, performed, and de- 
 termined by a major vote of a meeting of seven, at least, of the 
 trustees appointed by this act, and their successors duly notified 
 and called, other than the choice of new trustees, the nominating 
 and constituting, or the dismissing of the future provost, vice-pro- 
 vost, or professors, or any of them; or the alienation or leasing of 
 real estates, for more than seven years, or any extraordinary and 
 new expenditure of the income, or other -personal estate of the 
 said corporation, or the altering any salary, or the granting de- 
 grees to the scholars of the said university, or to other persons, or 
 to the making any ordinance, statute, or by-law; which several 
 enumerated acts and doings may be transacted and performed by 
 a majority of at least eleven of the said trustees, duly notified and 
 convened as aforesaid, and not otherwise. 
 
 Sect. 15. And be it further enacted, That the clause in the first 
 charter of the said corporation, whereby the trustees thereof were 
 limited to be inhabitants of Pennsylvania, residing within five miles 
 of the academy and school aforesaid, although license was given in 
 the said charter, to set up the same at any place within the said 
 province, which the said trustees should judge to be most conve- 
 nient, so far as the same clause limits the appointment of trustees to 
 persons residing within five miles of the said academy and school, 
 be, and the same is hereby annulled, repealed, and made void. 
 
 Sect. 16. And he it further enacted. That the trustees herein 
 before appointed, and their successors, shall and may ask, demand, 
 sue for, recover, and receive all evidences, mortgages, specialties, 
 deeds, and instruments, and all papers, books of account and re- 
 cord, and the library, philosophical apparatus, and seals of the 
 said corporation; and all debts, dues, and demands to the same 
 owing, belonging, accruing, or appertaining. And in case any 
 person or persons having the custody of the said library, apparatus, 
 mortgages, specialties, deeds or instruments, or other papers, books 
 of records of the said corporation, or having possession of the real 
 estate of the said corporation, or any part thereof, shall refuse to 
 deliver up the same when demanded, it shall and may be lawful for 
 the trustees of the said college* to summon any person so refusing 
 before any two justices of the peace of the city or the county where 
 
 * The word college inserted by mistake, instead of university, which was 
 corrected by the act of 16th March, 1780, vol. 1 Smith’s Laws, p. 502. 
 
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 the said real estate lies, or the detainer of any of the records or 
 other articles aforesaid resides, who are hereby authorized and 
 empowered to inquire into the said complaint, in a summary way, 
 and give judgment therein as to them shall seem meet according to 
 the merits and justice of the case; and if such judgment be given 
 against the detainer of any of the said deeds, specialties, mortgages, 
 or other articles before enumerated, and if such detainer shall still 
 refuse to deliver the same, it shall and may be lawful for the said 
 justices, and they are hereby required to commit such refuser to 
 prison, there to remain without bail or mainprise, until the said 
 judgment be complied with. And in the case of real estate, the 
 said justices shall carry such judgment into execution, by issuing a 
 writ of possession to the sheriff of the county, in the same manner 
 as they are authorized to do by an act of assembly, intituled, 
 
 Act for the sale of goods distrained for rent, and. to secure such 
 goods to the -person distraining the same, for the better security of 
 rents, and for other purposes therein mentioned, in case of tenants 
 holding over their terms: Prorided always. That if either of the 
 said parties shall demand a jury to be summoned, to try the said 
 matter in dispute, the said justices shall cause a jury forthwith to 
 come before them thereupon, in the same manner as juries are had 
 in the case of tenants holding over their terms as aforesaid ; and 
 the said justices shall give judgment pursuant to the verdict of such 
 jury, and proceed to the execution thereof, as is herein and hereby 
 directed. 
 
 Sect. 17. And be it further enacted. That the civil officers, min- st^e. 
 isters of the gospel, and other persons by this act constituted and 
 appointed trustees of the said university, and their successors duly 
 chosen, nominated, be one community, body politic and corporate, 
 to have perpetual succession and continuance forever, by the name, 
 style and title as aforesaid, and that by the said name they shall be 
 capable and able in law to sue and be sued, have and make a com- power to 
 mon seal, and the same at their pleasure to break and alter, to m^on^seai!™ 
 make rules and statutes, and to do every thing necessary and need- 
 ful for the good government and perfect establishment of the said 
 university; and the provost, vice-provost, and professors hereafter 
 to be appointed and constituted by the trustees aforesaid, shall be 
 named, styled, and intitled, the Provost, Yice-Provost, and Pro- 
 fessors of the same University; and the name, style, and title of 
 the body or faculty composed of the said Provost, Yice-Provost, 
 
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 and Professors shall be The Provost, Yice-Provost, and Professors 
 _of the University of the State of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Shall submit 
 accounts, 
 
 &c., to the 
 inspection of 
 the assem- 
 bly. 
 
 Sect. 18. And he it further enacted, That the said trustees shall 
 at all times, when required, submit the books, accounts, and econ- 
 omy of the said corporation to the free examination of visitors, 
 to be appointed from time to time by the representatives of the 
 
 freemen of this commonwealth, in general assembly met. 
 
 Sect. 19. And he it further enacted, That the trustees appointed 
 
 by this act, or a majority of them, shall meet in the hall of the 
 university aforesaid, in the forenoon on the first Wednesday in 
 
 December next, and after being duly qualified as this act pre- 
 scribes, proceed to the execution of their trust. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 2dvoi.Laws, To coniirm to the Trustees of the University of the State of Penn- 
 
 S III ^ t/t/ *y 
 
 tion, p. 352. sylvania, divers estates therein enumerated, for the' support of the 
 
 said Seminary ; and for enabling the Board of Trustees of the 
 said University to choose a new Trustee in the stead of any of 
 their numher {not being a trustee in right of offce or station) who 
 shall he absent from the meetings of the said corporation during 
 the space of six months. — 22c? September, IT 85. 
 
 Preamble. Sect. 1. Whereas by an act of general assembly of this com- 
 monwealth, intituled, “An Act to confirm the estates and interests 
 of the college, academy, and charitable school of the city of Phila- 
 delphia, and to amend and alter the charters thereof, conformably 
 to the revolution, and to the constitution and government of this 
 commonwealth, and to erect the same into a university,’^ which was 
 enacted on the twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our 
 Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, it was for the 
 better enabling the trustees therein named, and thereby appoint- 
 ed, and their successors, to effectuate the pious and praiseworthy 
 designs of the founders, benefactors, and contributors of the said 
 seminary of learning. That it should be lawful for the supreme 
 executive council of this state, to reserve such and so many of the 
 confiscated estates which were then unsold and unappropriated, as 
 to them should seem necessary, in order to create a certain fund 
 for the maintenance of the provost, vice-provost, masters and as- 
 
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 sistants of the same university, and to uphold and preserve the 
 charitable school thereof ; Provided, That the yearly income of 
 such estates, so reserved and appropriated to the use of the said 
 university, should not exceed the yearly sum of fifteen hundred 
 pounds, computing wheat at the rate of ten shillings per bushel. 
 
 And 'provided also, That such reservation be from time to time 
 laid before the general assembly of this state, for their approbation 
 and confirmation. 
 
 Sect. 2. And 'whereas, since the passing of the same act, the 
 confiscated real estates hereinafter mentioned and described, have 
 been severally reserved and appropriated by the supreme execu- 
 tive council, in pursuance thereof, for the purposes aforesaid, and 
 the same estates have been delivered to the said trustees accord- 
 ingly. 
 
 [Here follows a list of the confiscated estates.] 
 
 Sect. 3. And whereas, the real estates herein before described, Pieambie. 
 which have been reserved, set apart, and appropriated by the 
 supreme executive council for the purposes aforesaid, at the seve- 
 ral valuations thereof, respectively made, by the supreme executive 
 council, and the said real estates purchased as aforesaid, at the 
 prices at which they were severally sold, do not, when considered 
 and taken together, amount to more than the yearly value of one Reciting 
 thousand three hundred and eighty-one pounds five shillings and tafeVdo^ n^t 
 seven pence half-penny, computing wheat at the rate of ten shil- than 
 lings per bushel, and it is proper that the same estates and inte- 7^^'’ 
 rests herein before enumerated and described, and every of them, 
 should be confirmed to the said trustees, their successors, and 
 assigns, for the uses in the act afore recited, set forth, and 
 declared. 
 
 Sect. 4. Be it therefore enacted, &c.. That the several confis- Estates con- 
 
 , , , TIT. firmed to'the 
 
 cated estates, lands, tenements and hereditaments and rent charges trustees of 
 herein before enumerated and described, with their and every 
 their rights, members, and appurtenances, are hereby fully and 
 absolutely vested in and confirmed unto the trustees of the univer- 
 sity of the state of Pennsylvania, their successors and assigns for 
 ever, and for no other use, intent or purpose whatsoever ; saving 
 and always reserving to all and every person and persons, bodies 
 politic and corporate, his, her, and their heirs and successors 
 (other than the persons attainted or forfeiting the same, and all 
 persons and every person having or claiming any thing in the 
 
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 Preamble. 
 
 Absence for 
 six months 
 from meet- 
 ings, to va- 
 cate seat. 
 
 Professor- 
 ship for 
 teaching the 
 learned lan- 
 guages 
 through the 
 German es- 
 tablished. 
 
 premises, under or to the use of any such forfeiting person, his, 
 her, or their heirs, executors or administrators), all such estates, 
 rights, titles, and interest of, in, to and out of the premises, or 
 any of them, as they or any of them had before the passing of this 
 act, or could or might have had or enjoyed in case this act had 
 not been made. 
 
 Sect. 5. And whereas, in and by the act aforesaid, certain 
 officers of the commonwealth, and divers ministers of the gospel, 
 in respect of their offices and stations, together with sundry other 
 persons therein named, and the successors of such other persons 
 to be elected and appointed in their room and stead respectively, 
 were constituted trustees of the same university ; and although it 
 was provided, in case any of the same persons should remove out 
 of this State, that the office of such trustee should be thereby 
 vacated : yet if any of the same persons shall willingly absent 
 himself from the meeting of the said trustees for the space of one 
 year, no remedy is given, and the business of the seminary may 
 be thereby obstructed, and it is reasonable and proper that such 
 absence should be considered and deemed to be a vacating of the 
 seat of such person at the board of trustees. 
 
 Sect. 6. Be it therefore enacted, That if any of the trustees of 
 the university of the State of Pennsylvania (not being a trustee 
 in right of office or station) shall willingly be absent from the 
 meetings of the Board of the said trustees, for and during the 
 space of six months, the seat of such absenting trustees shall be 
 deemed to be vacant, and the residue of the said trustees, or such 
 of them as shall regularly be met, not being fewer than eleven, 
 shall and may proceed to elect a successor to such absenting 
 trustee, as they would in case he had formally resigned his seat at 
 the Board of the said trustees of the said university. 
 
 Sect. 7. And whereas, The trustees of the University of Penn- 
 sylvania have established a professorship in the same seminary, 
 for teaching the learned languages through the medium of the 
 German tongue, with one or more assistant teachers, as may be 
 requisite : 
 
 Sect. 8. Be it therefore enacted, That the same professorship 
 and the assistant or assistants aforesaid, shall be continued in the 
 said university to teach the learned languages through the medium 
 of the German tongue, as a part of the system of education car- 
 ried on therein. 
 
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 AN ACT 
 
 To repeal part of an act, entitled “An Act to confirm the 22 d Septem- 
 
 and interests of the College, Academy, and Charitahle School of 
 the city of Philadelphia, and to amend and alter the Charters 
 thereof conformably to the revolution and to the constitution and 
 government of this Commonwealth, and to erect the same into a 
 University P — ^th March, 1789. 
 
 Sect. 1. Whereas, by the constitution of this commonwealth, Preamble, 
 it is declared and provided, "That all religious societies or bodies 
 of men, heretofore united or incorporated for the advancement of 
 religion or learning, or for other pious and charitable purposes, 
 shall be encouraged and protected, in the enjoyment of the privi- 
 leges, immunities, and estates which they were accustomed to en- 
 joy, or could of right have enjoyed, under the laws and former 
 constitution of this State.” 
 
 A7id whereas, by two charters of incorporation, granted by the 
 late proprietaries of Pennsylvania, there existed within this com- 
 monwealth, on the twenty-seventh day of November, in the year 
 of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, an 
 ancient corporation and body politic, by the name, style, and title 
 of “The Trustees of the College, Academy, a^id Charitable School 
 of Philadelphia^ in the province of Pennsylvania,^’’ which corpora- 
 tion, at the time of passing the act hereinafter mentioned, was 
 seised, possessed of, and entitled unto many rights and franchises, 
 and divers estates, real, personal, and mixed, and by the constitu- 
 tion and laws of this State, was entitled to the public protection 
 and encouragement, in the enjoyment and free use and exercise 
 thereof, in conformity to the original design, will, and intention 
 of the founders, donors, and benefactors of the said seminary of 
 learning, in the same manner as it could of right have held, occu- 
 pied, and enjoyed the same, under the former laws and constitu- 
 tion of this State. 
 
 And whereas, by the said hereinafter mentioned act, which was Preamble, 
 passed on the said twenty-seventh day of November, in the year 
 of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, the 
 said trustees and corporation, and also the provost, vice-provost, 
 professors, and all other masters, teachers, ministers, and officers 
 of the said college, academy, and charitable school, were without 
 
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 trial hy jury, legal process, or proof of misuser or forfeiture, de- 
 prived of their said charters, franchises, and estates, and the said 
 Board of Trustees and faculty were declared to be ‘‘ dissolved 
 and vacated, and the superintendence and trust, together with all 
 and singular the powers, authorities, and estates, real, personal, 
 and mixed, of the said college, academy, and charitable school, 
 were by the said act, declared to pass to, devolve upon, and be 
 vested in a new corporation or body politic, thereby created and 
 established, by the name, style, and title’ of ^The Trustees of the 
 University of the State of Pennsylvania,'^ to have, hold, use, exer- 
 cise, and enjoy all the powers, authorities, and advantages of the 
 estates, rights, claims, and demands of the trustees heretofore 
 appointed by or in pursuance of the charters of the said (ancient) 
 corporation, or either of them all which is repugnant to justice, 
 a violation of the constitution of this commonwealth, and danger- 
 ous in its precedent to all incorporated bodies, and to the rights 
 and franchises thereof. 
 
 Repeal of Sect. 2. Beit therefore enacted. That so much and all such 
 
 1779. parts of an act of general assembly of this commonwealth, passed 
 on the said twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our 
 Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, entitled “An 
 Act to confirm the estates and interests of the college, academy, 
 and charitable school of the city of Philadelphia, and to amend 
 and alter the charters thereof, conformably to the revolution, and 
 to the constitution and government of this commonwealth, and to 
 erect the same into a university,” as touch, or in any wise concern 
 or relate to the said ancient corporation, which was styled and 
 known by the said name and title of “ The Trustees of the Col- 
 lege, Academy, and Charitable School of Philadelphia, in the 
 province of Pennsylvania,” or the said charters thereof, or either 
 of them, or as touch or in any wise concern or relate to the for- 
 mer rights, franchises, immunities, or estates, real, personal, or 
 mixed thereof, or as tend to disqualify or disable the said trustees 
 to act as a body politic, under the charters aforesaid, or to dis- 
 qualify, deprive, or disable the body and faculty of the college and 
 academy, known and distinguished in the charter, dated the four- 
 teenth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five, by 
 the name, style, and title of Provost, Vice-Provost, and Pro- 
 fessors of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, in the province 
 of Pennsylvania f or any of them, from carrying on the design 
 
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 and purpose of the said college, academy, and charitable school, 
 or to disfranchise or deprive them, or any of them, of any privi- 
 leges, immunities, or estates whatsoever, or of any part or parcel 
 thereof, or as vests the same or purports and intends to vest the 27, 1779, re- 
 
 . pealed. 
 
 same, or any part or parts thereof, in Trustees of the Uni- 
 
 versity of the State of Pennsylvania f shall be, and the same and 
 every such part and parts thereof, is and hereby are repealed and 
 made null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever. 
 
 Sect. 3. And he it further enacted, That the trustees of the 
 college, academy, and charitable school aforesaid, who were de- 
 prived and disabled, or intended so to be, by, and in pursuance of 
 the said act, and the survivors of them and their successors, by the 
 name, style, and title of “The Trustees of the College, Academy, 
 and Charitable School of Philadelphia, in the commonwealth of 
 Pennsylvania,” and the provost, vice-provost, and professors, who 
 as a faculty, were deprived and disabled, or intended so to be, by, 
 and in pursuance of the said act, and the survivors of them and 
 their successors, by the name and style of “The Provost, Yice- Trustees re- 
 Provost, and Professors of the College and Academy of Phila- ^ 
 delphia, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” shall be reinstated 
 and restored, and they and each of them are hereby reinstated and 
 restored to all and singular the rights, franchises, emoluments, 
 offices, trusts, and estates, real, personal, and mixed, which they 
 and each of them held and enjoyed, or ought or could of right 
 have had, held, and enjoyed, or were entitled unto, according to 
 the said charters and the laws and constitution of this state, on 
 the said twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord 
 one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ; and they and each 
 of them and their successors, shall, and may ask, demand, sue for, 
 recover, and receive the same and each and every part and parcel 
 thereof, and shall hold and enjoy, use, and exercise the same, and 
 every part and parcel thereof, in the same manner and as fully and 
 freely as if the said act had never been passed. Excepting always, Exception.s 
 so much of the rents, issues, and profits of the said real estate and bLsemTnts, 
 estates, as were received by the said trustees of the university be- 
 fore the second day of March instant, which shall be considered, 
 and they are hereby considered, as having been duly laid out by 
 and expended, in the education of youth, and therefore, no account 
 shall be rendered thereof ; and excepting also, such sum or sums 
 of money as have been paid in discharge of the just debts, con- 
 
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 Trustees of, 
 authorized 
 to regain 
 possession, 
 &c. 
 
 tracts, and engagements of them, “The Trustees of the said Col- 
 lege, Academy, and Charitable School,” entered into and subsist- 
 ing on or before the said twenty-seventh day of November, in the 
 year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ; 
 and excepting also, such bonds, mortgages, and other specialties, 
 of the former estate of the said last-mentioned trustees, as have 
 been transferred, cancelled, or discharged by them, the trustees 
 of the university, for the value of which only (without any ac- 
 count of the interest, actually received) they shall be account- 
 able to the trustees of the said college, academy, and charitable 
 school ; and excepting lastly, certain lots of ground in the town 
 of Norris, and county of Montgomery, which were given for 
 the public use and service of the said county, and certain other 
 lots which have been contracted for, sold, and conveyed by the 
 said trustees of the university, for the purpose of building and 
 improving in the said town ; for the value of which lots only as 
 they were contracted for, sold, and payment received by the said 
 trustees, they shall be liable and accountable to the trustees of the 
 said college, academy, and charitable school, and the said lots and 
 every of them shall be, and hereby are confirmed, to the several 
 purchasers thereof, on the payment of the purchase-money and 
 arrears thereof, yet due to the trustees of the said college, acad- 
 emy, and charitable school, in the same manner as such purchase- 
 money and arrears thereof yet due, ought to have been paid to 
 the trustees of the said university, according to the several con- 
 tracts for the sale and conveyance of the said lots duly and hona 
 fide made by them before the third day of February last. 
 
 Sect. 4. And he it further enacted. That the trustees of the said 
 college, academy, and charitable school, and their successors, by 
 the name, style, and title of “ The Trustees of the College, Acad- 
 emy, and Charitable School of Philadelphia, in the commonwealth 
 of Pennsylvania,” and the provost, vice-provost, and professors of 
 the said college and academy and their successors, by the name 
 and style of The Provost, Yice-Provost, and Professors of the 
 College and Academy of Philadelphia, in the commonwealth of 
 Pennsylvania, shall respectively be entitled to, and shall have and 
 pursue the like speedy, summary, and effectual means and reme- 
 dies, for regaining and reinstating themselves in, and for having 
 and possessing themselves of all and singular the rights, franchises, 
 offices, trusts, and immunities, and estates, real, personal, and 
 
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 mixed, to which they or either or any of them are in, and by this 
 act restored, or which is hereby vested in them or either or any of 
 them, together with all books, papers, and writings, touching or 
 concerning the same or any part thereof, as were given, or men- 
 tioned and intended to be given, in and by the said in part recited 
 act, and also in and by any other act or acts of general assembly 
 of this commonwealth, to the trustees of the university therein 
 mentioned, or which they could thereby have or pursue for acquir- 
 ing or possessing themselves of all or any part or parts of the 
 estate or estates, real, personal, or mixed, rights, franchises, offices, 
 trusts, or immunities, in and by the said in part recited act, trans- 
 ferred to or vested in them the said trustees of the university afore- 
 said, or of any books, papers, or writings, relating thereto ; and 
 all and every person and persons are hereby enjoined and required 
 to govern and demean themselves accordingly, under the like pains 
 and penalties as are in and by the said acts mentioned. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To unite the University of the State of Pennsylvania, and the Col- Nov. 27 , 
 lege, Academy, and Charitable School of Philadelphia, in the March, i789. 
 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. — September 30^^, 1791. 
 
 Whereas, the trustees of the university of the state of Pennsyl- Preamble 
 
 • T6CitiD§ tll6 
 
 vania, and the trustees of the college, academy, and charitable school terms of 
 of Philadelphia, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by their 
 several petitions have set forth, that they have agreed to certain 
 terms of union of the said two institutions, which are as follow: 
 
 First. That the name of the institution be ^^The University of 
 Pennsylvania,^'' and that it be stationed in the city of Philadelphia. 
 
 Second. That each of the two boards shall elect, from among 
 themselves, twelve persons, who, with the governor for the time 
 being, shall constitute the board of trustees of the university of 
 Pennsylvania; and that the governor shall be president. 
 
 Third. That the professors which shall be deemed necessary to Professors to 
 constitute the faculty in the arts and medicine, respectively, shall Facuify^of*^ 
 be taken from each institution equally; and in case of an odd num- Medicine, 
 ber, such one to be taken from either by the choice of the trustees ; 
 and that the provost and vice-provost, or the principal officer or 
 officers of the faculty, by whatever name or names they may be 
 called, shall be chosen from among the professors so appointed. 
 
Charity- 
 
 schools. 
 
 Election of 
 trustees. 
 
 Thirteen ne- 
 cessary to 
 elect profes- 
 sor. Notice 
 previous no- 
 mination. 
 
 Two-thirds 
 necessary to 
 a removal o 
 a profes.sor. 
 Notice, &c. 
 
 Sec. 5. 
 
 f- — 
 
 Twelve trus- 
 tees be cho- 
 sen from, 
 each board, 
 and return- 
 ed to the 
 governor. 
 
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 Fourth. That charity schools shall be supported, one for boys, 
 and the other for girls. 
 
 Fifth. That for the future every vacancy in the board, except 
 that of governor, shall be filled up by election by ballot, by a 
 majority of the members present, at any meeting of the new board, 
 the members present to be at least thirteen ; that due and timely 
 notice of such election be at all times given, and that no person 
 shall be elected to fill up such vacancy at the same meeting in 
 which he shall be nominated. 
 
 Sixth. That the funds and property of the institutions shall be 
 united, and vested in the new trustees. 
 
 Seventh. That the professors and officers composing the faculty 
 shall be elected by a majority of the members present at any meet- 
 ■ing of the new board, the number present to be at least thirteen ; 
 that due and timely notice of such election shall at all times be 
 given, and that no person or persons shall at any time be elected 
 such professor or officer at the same meeting in which he shall be 
 nominated. 
 
 Eighth. That no professor or officer of the faculty shall be re- 
 ' moved by a less number than two-thirds of the members present at 
 any meeting of the new board, the members present to be at least 
 thirteen ; and that due and timely notice of such intended removal 
 shall at all times be given, and that no person or persons shall at 
 any time be removed at the same meeting in which such removal 
 shall be proposed. 
 
 Nmth. That the board of trustees shall annually lay before such 
 persons, as the legislature shall in the incorporating act direct, a 
 statement of the funds of the institution. 
 
 And the said trustees, by their several petitions have prayed, 
 that a law may be passed to enable them to carry the said terms of 
 union into effect, and to incorporate them in one body, according to 
 the purpose and intention expressed in the said terms of union. 
 
 Sect. 1. Be it therefore enacted^ That, in pursuance of the second 
 article of the said terms of union, the trustees of the university 
 shall elect twelve persons from among themselves to be trustees of 
 the said university after the union, and shall certify the names of 
 the said twelve persons, so elected, to the governor of this common- 
 wealth, on or before the first day of December next ; and that the 
 trustees of the said college, academy, and charitable school, shall 
 elect twelve persons from among themselves, to be trustees of the 
 
8.3 
 
 said university after the union, and shall certify the names of tlie ' 
 said twelve persons, so elected, to the governor of this common- 
 wealth, on or before the first day of December next. I 
 
 Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after such cer- persons ro 
 tificates of the elections being so made to the governor, as afore- ^aiibecome 
 
 A covporsi- 
 
 said, the said twenty-four persons so elected and certified, together woq under 
 
 ° Iflie style, to 
 
 with the governor for the time being, who shall always be presi- ije stationed 
 dent, and their successors, duly elected and appointed, as herein 
 and by the said terms of union is directed, be, and they are hereby 
 made and constituted a corporation and body politick, in law and' 
 in fact, to have continuance for ever by the aforesaid name, 'style, 
 and title of “ THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OP 
 PENNSYLVANIA,” and that the said university shall at all 
 times be stationed in the city of Philadelphia. 
 
 Sect. 3. And he it further enacted, That the said trustees, and 
 their successors, shall be able and capable in law to sue and be 
 sued, by the name, style, and title aforesaid, and to have and to 
 make one public and common seal, and also one private seal to use 
 in their affairs, and the same, or either of them, to break and alter 
 at their pleasure; and to make rules and statutes not repugnant to Powers, 
 the laws and constitution of this state, or of the United States of 
 America, and to do every thing needful and necessary to the estab- 
 lishment of the said university, and for their own good govern- 
 ment, and the good government and education of the youth belong- 
 ing to the same, and to constitute a faculty, or learned body to 
 consist of such head or heads, and such a number of professors in 
 the arts and sciences, and in law, medicine, and divinity, as they 
 shall judge necessary and proper, consistent with the aforesaid 
 articles of union. 
 
 Sect. 4. And be it further enacted. That all and every the Estates of 
 
 1 1 1 1 /V 11 1 • the former 
 
 estates, real, personal, and mixed, moneys, etiects, debts, claims, institutiouu 
 and demands, either in law or equity, which at present are vested 
 in, or belong to each of the two boards of the trustees of the said 
 university, and of the said college, academy, and charitable school, 
 who are hereby united and incorporated together, shall be, and 
 they hereby are, transferred to and vested in the said trustees herein 
 directed to be appointed and incorporated, and their successors, 
 with full power to take, receive, hold, use, recover, and enjoy the 
 same, according to the purpose, true intent, and meaning of this 
 act, and that in like manner, all claims, rights, and demands, of any 
 3 
 
 phia. Gov- 
 ernor to be 
 president. 
 
34 
 
 statement 
 to be laidbe- 
 fore the le- 
 gislature. 
 
 person or persons, bodies politick and corporate, against either of 
 the said two boards, shall be and remain valid and effectual against 
 the trustees herein directed to be appointed and incorporated, and 
 their successors, with power to demand, receive, and recover the 
 same, as if they had been originally contracted by, or due, or re- 
 coverable from, the said trustees herein directed to be appointed 
 and incorporated. 
 
 Sect. 5. And he it further enacted, That pursuant to the ninth 
 article of the terms of union, the trustees shall annually lay a state- 
 ment of the funds of the institution before the legislature of the 
 commonwealth. 
 
From the Minutes of the November, 1791. 
 
 His excellency Thomas Mifflin, Governor of the Commonwealth 
 of Pennsylvania, having received certificates of the election of the 
 trustees of the University agreeably to the foregoing Act, and hav- 
 ing caused the persons in the said certificates respectively to be 
 notified thereof, and also to meet at the office of the secretary of 
 the commonwealth, at the state house in the said city, on Tuesday 
 the eighth day of November, in the year 1791, the following gen- 
 tlemen, with the governor, met in pursuance of such notice, viz; 
 
 1. The Hon. Thomas M’Kean, LL.Do 
 
 2. Charles Pettit, 
 
 8. The Rev. James Sproat, D.D. 
 
 4. Jonathan B. Smith, 
 
 6. Jonathan D. Sergeant, 
 
 6. James Irvine, 
 
 7. John Bleakley, 
 
 8. John Carson, 
 
 9. David Rittenhouse, 
 
 10. David Jackson, 
 
 11. Jared Ingersoll, 
 
 1. The Rt. Rev. Wra. White, D.D., 
 
 2. The Rev. Robert Blackwell, D.D., 
 
 3. The Hon. Ed. Shipper), 
 
 4. William Lewis, 
 
 5. Robert Hare, 
 
 6. Samuel Powell, 
 
 7. David H. Conyngham, 
 
 8. Wm. Bingham. 
 
 9. Thomas Fitzsimmons, 
 
 10. Geo. Clymer, 
 
 11. Edward Burd, 
 
 12. Samuel Miles. 
 
 And the said Act having been read, the governor exhibited the 
 certificates of the election made in pursuance of the first section 
 thereof, by which it appeared that the persons above named, and 
 Henry Kuhl, elected by the trustees of the university, were respec- 
 tively elected by the trustees of the two institutions to be trustees 
 of the new institution under the name of ''The University of Penn- 
 
 Elected by the 
 Trustees of the 
 University of the 
 State of PennsvL 
 
 vania. 
 
 Elected by the 
 Trustees of the 
 College, Acade- 
 my, and Free 
 School. 
 
sylvania,'^ with the corporate style and title of ''The Trustees of 
 the University of Pennsylvania ?^ — Whereupon the said trustees, 
 with the governor of the commonwealth, formed themselves into a 
 Board, and proceeded to organize the said institution. Agreeably 
 to the third section of the articles of union the following persons 
 were, on the 23d of January, 1792, elected to the Professorships 
 annexed to their names respectively, viz., to constitute the Faculty 
 of Medicine. 
 
 William Shippen, jr.. Professor of Anatomy, Surgery, and Mid- 
 wifery. 
 
 Caspar Wistar, Adjunct Professor of the Same. 
 
 Adam Kuhn, Professor of the Practice of Physic. 
 
 Benjamin Rush, Professor of the Institutes and Clinical Medicine. 
 James Hutchinson, Professor of Chemistry. 
 
 Samuel Powel Griffiths, Professor of Materia Medica. 
 
 Benjamin S. Barton, Professor of Natural History and Botany. 
 
 And on the 9th of April, 1792, to constitute the Faculty in the 
 Arts, 
 
 The Rev. John Ewing, D.D., Professor of Natural Philosophy. 
 The Rev. John Andrews, D.D,. Professor of Moral Philosophy. 
 Mr. James Davidson, Professor of the Learned Languages, viz., of 
 the Latin and Greek. 
 
 Mr. Robert Patterson, Professor of Mathematics. 
 
 The Rev. William Rogers, D.D., Professor of English and the 
 Belles Lettres. 
 
 The Rev. Henry Helmuth, D.D., Professor of the German and 
 Oriental Languages. 
 
 And on the 26th day of April, in the same year, the Rev. John 
 Ewing, D.D., was elected Provost, and the Rev. John Andrews, 
 D.D., Yice-Provost, of the University of Pennsylvania. 
 
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 AN ACT 
 
 Extending the limits of the income of the Trustees of the University 
 of Pennsylvania. — Wth May, 18'7l. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- 
 tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly 
 met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That the 
 trustees of the University of Pennsylvania are hereby authorized 
 to acquire and hold real and personal estate, for the purposes of 
 the said university, the clear annual value of which shall not ex- 
 ceed the sum of thirty thousand dollars, in addition to that which 
 they now hold. 
 
STATUTES 
 
 OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 Section 1. The Governor of the State of Pennsylvania for the 
 time being is President of the Board by the charter, and when present 
 at any meeting shall preside. 
 
 Section 2. The senior Trustee by election to the Board shall be 
 President pro tempore thereof, and except when the Governor shall be 
 present shall preside at all meetings of the Trustees, preserve order 
 thereat, appoint all committees, unless otherwise ordered by a vote of 
 the Trustees, attest all the official acts, proceedings, and resolutions of 
 the Board which are intended to make contracts or conveyances, or to 
 alienate, release, or dispose of the property of the University, whether 
 the same be real or personal, and generally perform all other duties 
 which pertain to the powers and duties of a presiding officer. 
 
 Section 3. In the absence of the President pro tempore from any 
 meeting the senior Trustee by election to his place, then present, shall 
 preside, and for the time being exercise all the powers and perform all 
 the duties of the President pro tempore. 
 
 Section 4. Stated meetings of the Trustees shall be held on the 
 first Tuesday of every month, at such place and at such hour as the 
 Board may by resolution from time to time order and direct. Special 
 meetings may be called by the President pro tempore whenever he 
 may deem the same necessary or expedient. 
 
 In the absence of the President pro tempore from the city of Phil- 
 adelphia, or of his refusal to call a special meeting of the Board on 
 the written request of five Trustees, the Secretary shall, upon such a 
 
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 written request, call a special meeting. The call for the special meet- 
 ing shall designate the business proposed to be considered thereat, and 
 no other business shall be transacted thereat unless by the unanimous 
 consent of the members present, being at least thirteen in number. 
 
 At least twenty-four hours’ notice shall be given for the holding of 
 a stated or a special meeting, and the time and place for holding the 
 meeting shall be expressed in the notice. 
 
 Section 5. Five Trustees shall constitute a quorum for the trans- 
 action of ordinary business, but for the enactment of laws, the election 
 of professors, the purchase or sale of real estate or other property, or 
 the mortgaging, pledging, or encumbering thereof, at least thirteen 
 Trustees shall be present, and a majority of the votes of those present 
 at any meeting shall be necessary for the adoption of any order, reso- 
 lution, or action of the Trustees, or for the election of any professor, 
 or for the enactment or amendment of any law. 
 
 Section 6. The order of business at the stated meetings shall be 
 as follows : 
 
 1. Reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting for the pur- 
 pose of reconsidering the same, if any amendment thereof shall be 
 deemed necessary, and for their adoption. 
 
 2. Communications addressed to the Board to be read, referred, or 
 finally disposed of. 
 
 3. Reports from the Provost, and order taken thereon when it may 
 be needed. 
 
 4. Reports of Standing Committees, and the consideration of reso- 
 lutions or other propositions contained in such reports. 
 
 5. Reports of Special Committees and consideration thereof, and 
 action thereon if needed. 
 
 6. Report of the Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 7. Deferred business. 
 
 8. New business. 
 
 9. Reading of the rough minutes for correction. 
 
 10. Adjournment. 
 
 Section 7. A competent person shall be elected Secretary and 
 Treasurer of the Board, who shall hold his ofiice during the pleasure 
 of the Trustees. He shall receive such compensation for his services, 
 payable monthly, as the Board may from time to time fix, and shall 
 give such security for the faithful performance of all his duties as may 
 be also from time to time fixed by a resolution of the Trustees. He 
 shall, as Secretary, keep and engross regular minutes of the proceed- 
 
5 
 
 ings of the Board, carefully preserve and keep in regular files all com- 
 munications, reports, and other papers of importance ; conduct, under 
 the direction of the President pro tempore^ or of the standing or 
 special committees, all needful correspondence on the business of the 
 Board ; and when he may be so requested, act as Secretary of any 
 committee, and preserve the minutes of its proceedings; give notice 
 to all committees of their appointment, and transmit to them all 
 papers, documents, and copies of resolutions that may be referred to 
 them ; give notice of all stated and special meetings, and generally 
 perform such duties usually pertaining to the office of a Secretary as 
 the President pro tempore, or any committee of the Board, may 
 direct. lie shall have the custody of the corporate seal of the Uni- 
 versity, and shall affix and attest the same to such instruments or 
 writings as the Board may order and direct. 
 
 Section 8. As Treasurer he shall have charge of all deeds and 
 other muniments of title to the real estate of the University, and of 
 all bonds, mortgages, certificates of loans, stocks, or other evidences of 
 property owned by it or pledged to it, which he shall deposit for safe 
 keeping in such place of security as the Committee on Ways and 
 Means may direct. He shall collect and receive all moneys that may 
 in any way become due and payable to the Trustees, and deposit the 
 same as received in the corporate name of the University in such bank 
 or other institution in the city of Philadelphia as the Committee on 
 Ways and Means may direct. 
 
 He shall pay, according to such orders and resolutions as may be 
 made by the Trustees, all debts and other obligations of the Trustees 
 as the same shall become due and payable, and shall take full and 
 sufficient receipts and acquittances as vouchers for such payments. 
 He shall keep full and accurate accounts of all his receipts and pay- 
 ments in proper books to be provided for such purposes, and shall sub- 
 mit the same, together with his vouchers, monthly, to the Committee 
 of Ways and Means for examination and approval. He shall make 
 all payments by cheques, and the ‘cheque shall state for what account 
 the payment has been made. 
 
 He shall at each stated meeting present a summary statement of his 
 receipts and payments for the preceding month, showing also the bal- 
 ance of cash on hand and an estimate of the receipts and payments 
 for the next month. 
 
 The books of minutes and accounts, and all other papers and 
 vouchers in the hands of the Secretary and Treasurer, shall at all 
 
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 times be open to the inspection and examination of any Trustee, or of 
 any Committee of the Board. 
 
 Section 9. In case of the resignation or removal from office of the 
 Secretary and Treasurer, he shall forthwith deliver to his successor, or 
 to such other person as may be appointed to receive the same by the 
 Trustees, all the property, books, papers, money, and every other mat- 
 ter and thing belonging to the Board that may then be in his charge or 
 possession ; and an inventory of all matters and things so delivered 
 shall be made out and be duly attested by the person receiving the same, 
 and also by the retiring Secretary and Treasurer. And in case of a 
 vacancy occurring in the office of Secretary and Treasurer by the death 
 of the person holding said office, it shall be the duty of the Committee 
 of Ways and Means to obtain from the legal representative of the de- 
 ceased officer all the books, property, money, papers, vouchers, and 
 other effects of the Board that may at the time of his decease have 
 been in his charge, care, or possession, and to have an inventory thereof 
 made as aforesaid, to be attested by the signatures of the chairman of 
 said committee and by the legal representative of the deceased officer. 
 
 And in case of a vacancy occurring in the office of Secretary and 
 Treasurer, from any cause whatever, such vacancy shall be filled by an 
 appointment to be made by the President tem.j)ore, with the con- 
 currence of the Committee of Ways and Means ; such appointment to 
 continue, however, only until an election of Secretary and Treasurer 
 shall be made by the Trustees. No person shall be elected Secretary 
 and Treasurer unless he has been nominated at the stated. meeting of the 
 Trustees, held in the month preceding the stated meeting at which he 
 is to be balloted for. Notice of such intended election shall be given 
 to the several Trustees ; and no election shall be held unless at least 
 thirteen Trustees are present, and the votes of a majority of those 
 present shall be necessary to a choice. 
 
 Section 10. At the stated meeting of the Board, in the month of 
 January, annuall^g the following standing committees, to consist of 
 five members each, shall be appointed by the President pro tempore: 
 
 Ways and Means. 
 
 Buildings, Estates, and Property. 
 
 Library. 
 
 Department of Arts. 
 
 Department of Science. 
 
 Department of Medicine. 
 
 Department of Law. 
 
The Committee of Ways and Means shall have charge of the finan- 
 cial affiiirs of the institution ; shall see to the safe investment and 
 care of its funds ; supervise and examine the accounts and vouchers of 
 the Treasurer ; report from time to time on the financial condition of 
 the University, and on its revenues and expenditures ; make all invest- 
 ments as may be ordered by the Board ; direct the Treasurer as to the 
 places of deposit for the money and other property of the Board ; ex- 
 amine and vouch the accounts of the Treasurer ; report and advise on 
 all appropriations that may be requested by any department for expend- 
 iture ; see to the preparation of the annual report to be presented to 
 the State legislature ; and generally to watch over and care for the 
 financial interests of the institution. 
 
 Section 11. The Committee on Buildings, Estates, and Property 
 shall have charge of the buildings and other real estate, and of 
 the furniture and fixtures belonging t6 the institution ; attend to the 
 selling, leasing, and renting of such parts of the property as may 
 not be in actual use and occupied for the purpose of instruction ; 
 see that all is kept in proper order and repair; examine and ap- 
 prove of all bills and accounts before the same shall be paid, and 
 after the same have been duly vouched by the Provost or other officer 
 authorized to make any outlay ; and generally to act as a committee 
 on accounts for matters not in charge of the Committee of Ways 
 and Means. 
 
 Section 12. The Committee on the Library shall have charge of 
 the general library of the institution, and care for the preservation 
 of its books, furniture, and fixtures ; they shall have power to ap- 
 point a librarian, make rules for his government and for the hours of 
 his attendance, and define his duties ; provide for the use of the 
 library ; and report at least once a year on the condition of the 
 library, and recommend measures for its increase, improvement, and 
 usefulness. 
 
 Section 13. The Committees on the Departments of Arts, Science, 
 Medicine, and Law shall severally have the care and supervision of the 
 instruction to be given in said departments ; they shall aid the Pro- 
 vost in the management of said departments, and by regular confer- 
 ences and meetings with him ascertain the working and success of 
 existing arrangements, and receive from the Provost such suggestions 
 for improvement as the several Faculties may from time to time make 
 through him, and report thereon to the Board. 
 
 The auxiliary Department of Medicine shall be under the care of 
 
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 the Committee on the Department of Medicine, and the Department 
 of Music shall be under the care of the Committee on the Department 
 of Science. 
 
 Each of said committees shall have the general care of the apparatus, 
 special libraries, collections, cabinets, and museums appropriated for 
 the use of the department under its charge, and see that proper inven- 
 tories and records of them are taken and kept ; and that the several 
 professors and other officers in charge thereof are held properly respon- 
 sible for their care and preservation and delivery to the Provost, or 
 other officer who may be appointed to receive the same, on the resig- 
 nation, death, or removal from office of any one having had the same 
 in charge. 
 
 Each Faculty shall prepare and present, through the Provost, to the 
 proper committee in charge of its department, in the month of June 
 of each year, an estimate of th6 amount that may be needed to defray 
 its expenses from the 1st day of October until the 30th day of Sep- 
 tember next succeeding ; which estimate shall be revised by the proper 
 committee, and be transmitted to the Committee on Ways and Means, 
 with such recommendations for its allowance or reduction as may be 
 deemed proper. 
 
 Section 14. The reports of all committees shall be in writing; pro- 
 vided, however, that the minutes of any committee may, if it deems 
 the same advisable, be submitted as a report. 
 
 Section 15. Special committees shall be appointed, unless other- 
 wise ordered by the Board, by the President pro tempore^ whenever 
 the Trustees may deem the same advisable, for the consideration of 
 any subject. 
 
 Section 16. No money shall be drawn from the treasury unless an 
 appropriation for the expenditure of the same has been previously 
 made by the Board. No debt shall be contracted unless a requisition 
 for the object needed shall have been made therefor by the officer or 
 agent authorized to order the same, and such requisition has been ap- 
 proved by the Provost. Bills for all supplies ordered shall be collected 
 at the close of every month and be sent to the Secretary of the Board 
 of Trustees, approved by the Provost before the day of the stated 
 meeting in the following mouth, and the Secretary on the receipt of 
 such bills shall present them to the Committee on Buildings, Estates, 
 and Property for approval for payment. 
 
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 OF INSTRUCTION AND DISCIPLINE. 
 
 Section 17. The instruction to the students shall be given and 
 their government shall be administered in such manner as the Faculty 
 of each department may direct, under the general supervision, control, 
 and order of the. Board of Trustees. 
 
 The Provost shall be the chief executive officer of the University. 
 He shall be a member of and President of each Faculty, and when 
 present at a Faculty meeting shall preside thereat, and may call a 
 special meeting of any Faculty when he may deem the same expedient. 
 He shall be the organ of communication between each Faculty and the 
 several members thereof and the Board of Trustees. He shall have 
 the general care and supervision of the buildings occupied for the pur- 
 poses of instruction and the grounds connected therewith, and shall 
 enforce such care and supervision by such officers and servants as the 
 Trustees may direct to be employed for such services. He shall from 
 time to time report to the Board on the state of the instruction in the 
 several departments, and make such suggestions for the improvement 
 thereof as he shall deem expedient. He shall attend each stated 
 meeting of the Board of Trustees, and when present shall have the 
 privilege of speaking on all questions that may come before the Board, 
 and he may attend the meeting of any standing committee. He shall 
 approve of all requisitions for supplies before the same are ordered by 
 any Professor or other officer in charge, and shall certify to the Treas- 
 urer all bills for supplies duly ordered. He shall receive and transmit 
 to the proper committees all applications for gratuitous instruction, 
 with the proofs of the worthiness of the claims of the applicants for 
 admission, and also his opinion as to the propriety of admitting the 
 applicants. He shall also receive applications for free scholarships, 
 and report the names of those found qualified to the proper com- 
 mittee for admission. Every Professor, assistant Professor, Instructor, 
 or other officer or agent engaged in instruction or discipline shall be 
 primarily responsible to him for the faithful performance of his duties, 
 except in cases where an assistant is assigned for duty and service 
 to a Professor in any department, in which case such assistant shall be 
 primarily responsible to such Professor. He shall report to the Trus- 
 tees all cases of neglect of duty on the part of any Professor or other 
 officer or employee of the institution. Pie shall preside at all Com- 
 mencements, and confer the Degrees ordered by the Trustees. He 
 shall in all cases affecting the government and instruction have full 
 
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 and conclusive authority, subject only to the Board of Trustees, and, 
 as the chief executive officer of the University, shall be obeyed and 
 respected accordingly. 
 
 Section 18. In case of a vacancy in the office of the Provost, or 
 of his permanent absence from the city or from duty, the Yice-Provost 
 shall act as Provost until the vacancy be filled or the Provost shall 
 return to the discharge of his duties. 
 
 Section 19. There shall be the following Faculties, to consist of the 
 Provost and such number of Professors, adjunct, and assistant Pro- 
 fessors as the Trustees may from time to time direct, to wit : Arts, 
 Medicine, Law, Towne Scientific School, Auxiliary of Medicine, and 
 Music. 
 
 Each Faculty shall meet at least once a month, or when called specially 
 by the Provost, except during vacation, and the members thereof shall 
 attend such meetings, and shall elect a Dean and Secretary. Provided, 
 however, that the Vice-Provost shall be ex- officio Dean of the Faculty 
 of Arts. In the absence of the Provost from any meeting the Dean 
 shall preside. The Secretary shall keep regular minutes of its pro- 
 ceedings, which shall at all times be open to the inspection of any 
 Trustee, to the Provost, or any member of the Faculty. 
 
 All requisitions for supplies shall be issued and signed by the Sec- 
 retary of the Faculty for whose use such supplies are needed. No 
 requisition for a supply shall be issued unless an appropriation has 
 been duly made by the Trustees for defraying the expenses thereof 
 
 Each Faculty shall have such instructors, assistants, and other em- 
 ployees assigned to it as the Trustees, by resolutions for such purposes, 
 may allow. 
 
 Every Professor, adjunct Professor, or other officer or employee shall 
 hold his office during the pleasure of the Board, and shall receive such 
 compensation for his services, payable monthly, as the Trustees may 
 from time to time designate. Bemovals from office, except in the 
 case of a member of a Faculty, shall be made by the Provost with the 
 concurrence of the standing committee on the department or other 
 branch of the service of the University in which the person to be 
 removed has been employed. 
 
 A member of a Faculty may be removed at any meeting of the 
 Board of Trustees at which at least thirteen members are present and 
 at least two-thirds of those present concurring in such removal ; but no 
 member of a Faculty shall be removed from office unless for cause 
 shown in a complaint made in writing by the Provost or the standing 
 
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 • committee having charge of the department in which such member is 
 employed, nor until notice has been given to such member of the com- 
 plaint against him, which notice shall be served on the member so 
 complained of at least ten days before the consideration of his case by 
 the Board of Trustees. His reply to the complaint shall be in writing. 
 But the Trustees expressly reserve the right in all cases by the proper 
 quorum and vote to summarily remove any member of a Faculty from 
 office if in their judgment the interests of the University require such 
 removal. 
 
 Section 20. Professorships on special subjects may be established 
 by resolutions of the Trustees, and the Professors to fill the same shall 
 be chosen in the same way as Professors in the regular Faculties. 
 Such Professors shall hold their offices for such terms and receive 
 such compensation as the resolution providing for their appointment 
 may direct. 
 
 Section 21. Students shall be admitted into the several depart- 
 ments as the regulations, which may from time to time be adopted by 
 the Trustees, shall direct. These regulations shall prescribe the ex- 
 aminations requisite for admission, the courses of study, the qualifi- 
 cations required for Degrees, the cost of tuition, and the general 
 discipline of the University. 
 
 Section 22. Gratuitous instruction shall be given in each depart- 
 ment to such number of indigent students as the standing committee 
 having charge thereof shall direct. Applicants for such instruction 
 shall submit to the Provost their claims to such instruction, and if he 
 after examination shall deem them qualified in all respects for admis- 
 sion he shall report thereon to the proper committee, which shall then 
 take order on such applications. The names of such students shall 
 not be made public, but be confined to the knowledge of the Provost, 
 Treasurer, and proper committee. 
 
 Section 23. There shall be forty scholarships in the Towne Scien- 
 tific School, ten of which shall be competed for annually by pupils of 
 the public schools in the City of Philadelphia under such rules as 
 have heretofore been adopted and published therefor ; but such rules 
 may from time to time be altered or amended by special resolutions of 
 the Board, to take effect at the beginning of the college year after 
 their adoption. 
 
 Section 24. Female students shall be admitted to such partial 
 courses of advanced studies in the Department of Arts and Towne 
 Scientific School and Music as the Provost, with the approval of the 
 
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 proper committees, shall direct. The terms of admission and the re- 
 quisites therefor shall be fixed by the committee in conjunction with 
 the Provost. The name of any such student admitted to gratuitous 
 instruction under this section shall not be made public, but be con- 
 fined to the knowledge of the Provost, Treasurer, and proper com- 
 mittee. 
 
 Section 25. There shall be two public Commencements held an- 
 nually for conferring Degrees : the first, for Degrees in Medicine, on the 
 15th day of March, and the second, on the 15th of June, for Degrees 
 in the Arts, Law, Science, and auxiliary department of Medicine and 
 Music. When those days shall fall on Saturday or Sunday the Com- 
 mencement shall be held on the preceding Friday. 
 
 At all Commencements and other public occasions, the Provost, 
 Vice-Provost, and Professors and students shall, unless excused by the 
 Provost, appear in proper caps and gowns. 
 
 Section 26. Honorary Degrees will be conferred on persons deemed 
 worthy to receive the same in the following manner : a nomination of 
 the candidate for such a Degree, with a statement of his claims to such 
 a distinction, shall be made in writing and be presented to the Board 
 of Trustees at a stated meeting. Such nomination shall be referred to 
 the standing committee having charge of the department to which the 
 proposed Degree pertains. The committee shall report on the nomina- 
 tion at the next or some subsequent stated meeting. If a favorable 
 report shall be made on such nomination it shall lie over for three 
 months, and then the Trustees shall vote thereon ; and the unanimous 
 vote of the Trustees casting ballots shall be required for conferring any 
 honorary Degree. Degrees so ordered shall be conferred at the Com- 
 mencement next succeeding such order. 
 
 Section 27. Every mandamus ordering the conferring of Degrees 
 shall be signed by at least thirteen Trustees ; and the several Faculties 
 shall certify to the Board through the Provost at least ten days before 
 the holding of any Commencement the names of such candidates for 
 Degrees as have passed satisfactory examinations and are otherwise 
 qualified to receive the same. 
 
 Section 28. No room in the University buildings shall be used by 
 the students or any other person for a meeting, unless the permission 
 of the Provost or of the Trustees has been first obtained. 
 
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 LEAVE OF ABSENCE. 
 
 Section 29. When a Professor desires leave of absence from his 
 duties he shall make application in writing to the Provost, stating the 
 reason therefor. If the leave asked for does not extend beyond one 
 week, the Provost shall decide upon the application ; and if for a longer 
 period, he shall forward the application to the committee on the proper 
 department for action thereon. 
 
 UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL. 
 
 Section 30. The University Hospital shall remain in charge of its 
 Board of Managers and professional staff, under the rules and regula- 
 tions now in force, until the same are duly altered or amended. 
 
 EXISTING LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 Section 31. All statutes of the University heretofore enacted by 
 the Board of Trustees, and all regulations now in force for the instruc- 
 tion and government of the students under the authority of the several 
 Faculties, that are not altered or supplied by this code, shall be con- 
 tinued in force until otherwise ordered by the Trustees. 
 
 AMENDxMENTS. 
 
 Section 32. Propositions for the alteration or amendment of these 
 laws shall be made in writing, be submitted at a stated meeting, and be 
 considered and acted on at the next or some subsequent stated meeting, 
 of which proposed consideration notice shall be given by the Secretary.