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SEC. 7. That the said trustees and their successors in office, shall
meet in stated annual meetings, to be appointed by their own
ordinances, and at such other times as by their said ordinances they
shall direct, for the purpose of transacting such business for the
prosperity and welfare of the institution as may come before them; in
all which meetings nine trustees being present shall constitute a
quorum for transacting business. But a majority of said twenty-one
trustees shall be required, to make, pass and establish ordinances, rules
and by laws, not contrary to the constitution and laws of this State, for
the government of said University, and the proper education of its
students, and by them to delegate to the president, professors and other
teachers, such powers and authorities as they may judge expedient for
the government of the institution. And the said majority of trustees
shall also have power, at any legal meeting to alter or annul any rules
or regulations by them established; and to do all matters and things
which they may deem expedient for the faithful fulfilment of their trust.
&HST.As amended by Local Acts 1847, c.71, ss.1,3.&EHST.
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SEC. 4. That the Indiana Annual Conference, or such other
conference or conferences as may be formed out of the same, by the
consent of the Indiana Conference, shall fill all vacancies in the board
of trustees as may occur by death, resignation or otherwise, at the first
meeting of such conference or conferences, after any vacancy may
happen; thus keeping up the full number of twenty-one trustees forever.
And the said first named conference, or such other conference as may
be associated with it by its assent, shall, annually appoint any number
of visitors not exceeding nine, who, or so many as shall convene with
the board of trustees, shall constitute a joint board, in the permanent
appointments of all officers of the said University. Whenever a
majority of all the trustees shall declare any one of their body
incompetent, for want of moral character; the board of trustees shall
declare their seats vacant, and shall thereafter make a temporary
appointment to fill the vacancy, until the meeting of the next annual
conference, which shall then fill the same as aforesaid. And the
visitors, or so many of them as shall act, shall report to the conference
next succeeding their appointment, the condition of the university, and
whether it is conducted in conformity with its charter. And at the time
of the admission of any conference to the participation in the
appointments aforesaid, the Indiana Conference, and such other
conference as it may assent to associate with, shall divide the
appointing power of visitors and trustees in such manner as they may
mutually agree upon.
&HST.As amended by Local Acts 1847, c.71, ss.1,4.&EHST.
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SEC. 6. That the said trustees, and their successors shall have
authority to make and use a common seal, with such devices and
inscriptions as they shall think proper, and the same to change, alter
and renew, at pleasure; and shall also, at any regular meeting of the
board, when one or more of the visitors shall be present, from time to
time, forever hereafter, have full power and authority, to constitute and
appoint permanently, in such manner as they shall deem expedient, a
president of the university or college of faculties, together with such
professors, and other instructors as may at any time be necessary to
form an efficient faculty, for the proper instruction of students in the
arts and sciences, in the learned professions, and in all the branches of
liberal and professional instruction, as taught in the best universities in
our country. And the said president and professors, with such other
instructors as may, by the trustees be included, shall be known and
distinguished by the name of "The Faculty of the Indiana Asbury
University" And in that name, shall be capable of exercising such
powers and authorities, rights and privileges in the institution, as shall
be delegated to them according to the by-laws enacted by the trustees;
and the said board of trustees, may at any meeting make a temporary
appointment of any of the foregoing faculty, in the absence of such
visitor or visitors, until a regular meeting, at which one or more of such
visitors may be present. And a majority of the said twenty-one trustees,
together with a majority of the said nine visitors, may, at any time, in
joint meeting, by resolution to that effect, declare the appointment or
office of any of the faculty or instructors vacant, and proceed to fill
such vacancy, at such joint meeting, or any future meeting they may
designate.
Said board of trustees shall have power whenever in their opinion
the interests of said University may require it, to organize and establish
as a part of said University, a professional school or schools, whether
of law or medicine, at such place or places in the State as they may
think best; and shall have full power to appoint professors and teachers
thereof, subject to the general provisions of the act to which this is an
amendment, and to such rules and regulations as said board may from
time to time prescribe.
Whenever any board shall deem it conducive to the interests of
said University to establish a law or medical department thereof,
whether the same shall be located at Greencastle or elsewhere within
the State, they shall have power to hold and possess all the real estate
and other property necessary therefor, as fully as they now have power
to hold real estate for said University by virtue of the act to which this
is an amendment: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall
authorize said board to hold real estate for the use of any one
professional school so established of a greater value than thirty
thousand dollars.
&HST.As amended by Local Acts 1847, c.71, ss.1,8,9.&EHST.
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SEC. 2. That the said trustees and their successors, by the name of
"The Trustees of the Indiana Asbury University," shall be a body politic
and corporate; and as such forever to exist: and are hereby made able
and capable in law, to have, possess, purchase, receive, enjoy, and
retain, hold or dispose of, for the use of said university, lands,
tenements and annuities, and other hereditaments in fee simple, or for
a term of years, life, lives, or otherwise; and also money, bonds, bills,
notes, goods, chattels, interests or effects, of whatever nature, quality
or kind soever; by the gift, bargain, sale or devise of any person or
persons, body politic or corporate, capable of making the same; and the
same to grant, demise, sell, alien and confirm, in such manner as they
shall judge most conducive to the interests of said university. This
corporation shall not hold a greater amount of real estate, (exclusive of
college edifices,) than the value of fifty thousand dollars.
The real estate which by said act said board of trustees is
authorized to hold for the use of said University, shall, after the passage
of this act, be exempt from any taxation whatsoever, either for State or
county purposes.
&HST.As amended by Local Acts 1847, c.71, s.7.&EHST.
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SEC. 2. The said trustees and their successors shall be empowered
to receive any and all subscriptions, gifts, grants, donations, and
bequests, which shall be applied solely to the use and benefit of such
church in the manner the trustees thereof may deem most proper and
expedient.
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SEC. 3. It shall be lawful for such trustees to hold meetings at such
places and at such times as it may be deemed by them necessary and
their business may require; sit on their own adjournments or the call of
the proper officers or a majority of such trustees, and to elect and
appoint their officers, and establish such rules and by-laws for their
government from time to time as a majority may determine: Provided,
however, That such rules and by-laws shall not be incompatible with
the laws or constitution of the United States or of the State of Indiana.
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SEC. 4. It shall be lawful for the members of the Evangelical
Lutheran St. Paul's church to perpetuate the board of trustees hereby
appointed, by annual appointment, or by any other mode they may
deem proper; and also to fill all vacancies which may at any time occur
in said board.
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SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of said board of trustees to keep a
record of their proceedings, which shall be at all times open to the
inspection of all concerned.