Laws Passed by the Eighth Congress of the Republic of Texas. Page: 20
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SEc. 4. Be it further enacted, That the Trustees aforfec
said be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and
corporate in deed and in law, by the name of the President
and Trustees of Wesleyan College, and by that name they,
and their successors, shall and may have perpetual succession
and be able and capable, in law, to have, and receive arid enjoy
to them, and their successors, lands, tenements, hereditaments
of any kind, in fee, or for life, or for years, and personal
property of any kind whatsoever; and also all sums of money
which may be given, granted or bequeathed to them, for the
purposes 'of promoting the interests of the said College;
provided, the amount of property, owned by said Corporation,
shall not, at any one time, exceed one hundred thousand.
dollars, over and above the buildings, library and apparatus,
necessary to the institution.
SEC. 5. Be itfurther enacted, That there shall be a stated
meeting of the Board of Trustees in each year, at the time of
conferring degrees. and that the President of said Board, shall
have full power to call an occasional meeting of the Board,
whenever it shall appear to him necessary.
SEc. 6. Be it further enacted, That the Trustees of said
College, shall and may have a common seal for the business
of themselves; and their successors, with liberty to change
and alter the same,.from time to time, as they shall think
proper, and that by their aforesaid name, they and their successors,
shall and may be able to sue, and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended,
in all courts of law or equity, in this Republic, and to
grant, bargain and sell or assign any lands, tenements, goods
or chattles, now belonging to said College, or that may hereafter
belong to the same; to construct all necessary buildings
for the said institution; to establish a preparatory Department,
and a Female Department, and such other dependent
institutions as they shall deem necessary; to have the management
of the finances, the privileges of electing their own
officers, of appointing all necessary committees, and to act,
and do all things, whatsoever, for the benefit of the said Institution,
in as ample a manner as any person, or body politic
or corporate, can or may do, by law.
SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That the said Trustees shall
have the power of prescribing the course of studies, to be
pursued by the students, and of framing and enacting all such
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