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1847 Local Acts-22-2
SEC. 2. That the said trustees and their successors, by the name of
"The Trustees of the Fort Wayne Female College, shall be a body
politic and corporate, and as such forever to exist; and are hereby made
capable in law to have, possess, purchase, receive, enjoy, and retain,
hold, or dispose of, for the use of said college, 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 college: This corporation
shall not hold a greater amount of real estate (exclusive of the site for
the college and the edifices thereon) than the value of fifty thousand
dollars; which said amount shall be exempt from taxation, either for
State or county purposes.
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SEC. 3. That the said trustees and their successors, by the name and
style of "The Trustees of the Fort Wayne Female College," as aforesaid,
shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in
any court or courts of record, before any judge, justice, or justices
within this State and elsewhere, in all manner of suits, complaints,
pleas, causes, matters, and demands, of whatsoever kind, nature, or
form they may be; and all and every other matter, nature, and thing
therein to do, in as full and effectual a manner as any person or
persons, bodies politic or corporate, of like nature within this State may
or can do.
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SEC. 4. That said board of trustees are hereby authorized and
empowered and it is hereby made their duty at their first regular
meeting, so to classify the members thereof into three divisions that
one-third of the board shall go out of office each year, and shall
determine by lot what members thereof shall belong to each of said
classes.
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SEC. 5. That the North Indiana Annual Conference, or such other
conference or conferences as may be formed out of the same by the
consent of the said North Indiana Annual Conference, shall fill all
vacancies in the board of trustees as may occur by the expiration of the
term of office of any member or members thereof, 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
fifteen 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 seven, who, or
so many as shall convene with the board of trustees, shall constitute a
joint board in the permanent appointment of all officers of the said
college: And 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 his seat 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 college 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 North Indiana Annual 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.
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SEC. 6. That the said trustees of the Fort Wayne Female College,
before entering upon the trust reposed in them, shall severally take the
following oath of office, to be administered to them by any justice of
the peace in the State of Indiana, that is to say: "I, [A. B.], do solemnly
swear (or affirm) that I will, to the best of my skill and judgment,
faithfully and truly discharge the duties of a trustee of the Fort Wayne
Female College, pursuant to the laws and constitution of the State of
Indiana, the constitution of the United States, and the charter granted
by the State of Indiana establishing said college, without favor,
affection, or partiality, so help me God, (or under the pains and
penalties of perjury:") And said trustees shall have power to appoint,
annually, a president of the board, a vice-president, a treasurer, and a
secretary; and the treasurer so appointed shall give bond with such
security, and in such penalty as the trustees shall think proper, payable
to the State of Indiana, for the use of said college; which bond shall by
the treasurer and his securities be acknowledged before the clerk of the
circuit court of Allen county, and by him certified and recorded in his
office, a copy of which shall be evidence in any suit against such
treasurer and his securities for a breach thereof; and it shall be
conditioned for the true and faithful discharge of his duty as treasurer
of said college, and for the safe-keeping of all moneys, bond, notes,
deeds, mortgages, trusts, or other property belonging to the institution,
or which shall be put into or from time to time come to his hands;
which bond may be renewed whenever the said trustees shall require
it: And it shall be the duty of said treasurer to receive and safely keep
all moneys, notes, bonds, obligations, or conveyances of real, personal
or mixed property belonging to said college; and shall not pay out any
of said moneys, except upon the order of the president or
vice-president, countersigned by the secretary of the board of trustees;
and for any breach of said bond, the treasurer and securities may be
proceeded against as upon other official bonds, in the proper courts in
the State of Indiana: The said treasurer shall moreover, once in every
year, and as much oftener as the trustees may require, render, to them
an account of all moneys in his hands and all moneys by him paid out;
stating from whom or what source received, and to whom paid: And in
case the treasurer shall fail or refuse to perform any of the duties
required of him by this act, the trustees of said college shall have power
to declare his office vacant, and proceed to the election of a treasurer
to fill the vacancy: And it shall be the duty of every treasurer, on
leaving the office by removal resignation, or otherwise, upon the order
of the board, signed and countersigned as aforesaid, to pay and deliver
over all moneys and other property in his hands belonging to said
college, into the hands of his successor in office: And it shall be the
duty of the secretary to keep a fair record of all the proceedings of the
board of trustees, and at the close of every session to lay them before
the president for his signature, and to do and perform all other acts
which by this charter may be required of him: And it shall be the duty
of the president of the board to preside in all their meetings, when
present, and to perform all the duties usually performed by presiding
officers in all similar bodies; and in the absence of the president, the
vice-president aforesaid shall perform the duties; and in case of his
absence at the time of any meeting of the board, it shall be the duty of
the trustees to appoint a president pro tem.
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SEC. 7. 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
time, forever hereafter, have full power and authority to constitute and
appoint permanently, in such a manner as they may deem expedient, a
president of the college, 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, and in all
the necessary, useful, and ornamental branches of a thorough and
liberal education, such as is taught in the best female colleges or
academies: And the said president and professors, with such other
instructors or instructresses as may by the trustees be included, shall be
known and distinguished by the name of "The Faculty of the Fort
Wayne Female College:" 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 fifteen trustees, together with a majority of the said
seven visitors, may, at any time, in joint meeting, by resolution to that
effect, declare the appointment or office of any of the faculty,
instructors, or instructresses vacant, and proceed to fill such vacancy
at such joint meeting, or any future meeting which they may designate.
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SEC. 8. That the said trustees and their successors in office shall
meet at least once in every year, in a stated annual meeting, 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 five trustees being present shall
constitute a quorum for transacting business: But a majority of said
fifteen 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 college and the proper
education of its pupils, and by them to delegate to the president,
professors, and other instructors or instructresses 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.
1847 Local Acts-22-9
SEC. 9. That the said trustees and their successors shall have
authority, whenever in their opinion the funds of the institution will
justify the measure, to admit gratuitously, in whole or in part, as the
respective cases may require, such person or persons as they may think
proper to enjoy the benefits of tuition in said college: And said trustees
are hereby authorized to receive subscriptions, donations and bequests,
either in money, personal, real, or mixed property for the purpose of
enabling them to meet the expenditures requisite in establishing and
continuing said institution.
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SEC. 10. That for the purpose of stimulating and encouraging the
pupils in their progress, and promoting the general interests of the
institution, the said trustees and faculty shall have full power and
authority, once in every year, or oftener, as they by an ordinance shall
direct, to hold a public commencement, with exercises suited to the
occasion, and to graduate with literary honors such pupils as shall from
time to time be found to have merited the same by their character and
acquirements: And said trustees and faculty shall have power and
authority, in furtherance of the aforesaid objects, to confer on all those
pupils whom they shall deem worthy thereof, all such literary honors
and degrees as are usually conferred by the best female colleges,
institutions, or academies; and may issue, when they deem it expedient,
testimonies or diplomas, bearing the seal of said college, as certificates
of the same, signed by the president of the college: It shall also be the
duty of the faculty, prior to each commencement, to hold a public
examination, in presence of such trustees as may be able to attend, and
of other citizens, at which time all the pupils of said college shall be
examined in the several branches of learning which they have
respectively studied; that the fidelity of the teachers and the diligence
of their pupils may appear.
1847 Local Acts-22-11
SEC. 11. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall be
construed liberally, for every beneficial purpose hereby intended; and
no omission to use any of the privileges hereby granted shall cause a
forfeiture of the same, nor shall any gift, grant, conveyance, or devise,
to or for the benefit of the corporation be defeated or prejudiced by any
misnomer, misdescription, or informality whatsoever: Provided, That
the intention of the parties can be shown or ascertained beyond
reasonable doubt.
1847 Local Acts-22-12
SEC. 12. The State hereby reserves the right, at the session of the
Legislature for the years 1856 and 1857, and 1857 and 1858, and every
tenth session after either of those sessions, to alter or amend this
charter: Provided, however, That no amendment shall ever be made to
change the fundamental principles upon which this college is
established.
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SEC. 13. And the said trustees and their successors are hereby
authorized and empowered to adopt, ratify, and confirm all such acts
and contracts, not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter, as
have been done or made by the said trustees named herein, or a
majority of them, prior to the passage of this act, in the name and
character of trustees of the Fort Wayne Female College, and when so
adopted, ratified, and confirmed, the said acts and contracts of the said
persons above named, or a majority of them in their said name and
character of trustees as aforesaid, shall become and be as binding to all
intents and purposes upon the said trustees hereby created, and all other
parties thereto, as if the same had been done, made, or entered into by
said trustees in their name and character of trustees after the passage
of this act.
1847 Local Acts-71-1
SEC. 1. That the act entitled "An act to incorporate the trustees of
the Indiana Asbury University," approved January 10, 1837, be and the
same is hereby so amended, that from and after the first day of
September, 1847, the number of the board of trustees of said University
shall be reduced to twenty-one, who shall have and exercise all the
powers delegated to said board by the act to which this is an
amendment; and said board of trustees, when so reduced, are hereby
authorized and empowered so to classify the members thereof into
three divisions, that one-third of the board shall go out of office each
year, and shall determine by lot what members thereof shall belong to
each of said classes.
1847 Local Acts-71-2
SEC. 2. That the term of service of all the members of said board of
trustees who shall, on the said first day of September, 1847, have been
in office for the period of three years or longer, shall expire on said day,
and the Indiana annual conference or conferences of the Methodist
Episcopal church, at their next meeting thereafter, shall fill said
vacancies, or so many thereof as may be necessary to make said board
of the number provided for by this act; and said board, at its next
regular meeting hereafter, shall classify the members so elected
according to the provisions of said first section.
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SEC. 3. The regular meetings of said board of trustees shall
hereafter be held annually, instead of semi-annually, as provided in the
act to which this is an amendment.
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SEC. 4. That part of section four of said act which provides that
whenever any trustee shall be absent from three stated meetings of the
board his seat shall be vacated, is hereby repealed.
1847 Local Acts-71-6
SEC. 6. That part of the fifth section of said act which provides that
the bonds, notes, obligations, or conveyances of real, personal, or
mixed property belonging to said University shall be deposited with the
treasurer, is hereby repealed; and hereafter all such bonds, notes,
obligations, or conveyances shall be deposited with the secretary,
subject to such rules and regulations as the board of trustees may from
time to time prescribe.
1847 Local Acts-71-7
SEC. 7. 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.
1847 Local Acts-71-8
SEC. 8. 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.
1847 Local Acts-71-9
SEC. 9. 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.
1847 Local Acts-93-1
SEC. 1. That Jacob Driver, Carey Bradfield, and Jonathan
Thornburgh, of the county of Randolph, and their successors in office,
are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, and shall be known
by the name and style of "The Christian Church, on White River, in
Randolph County," and by said corporate name may sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, in any court in this state, and by that name
have perpetual succession, and they shall in law, in said corporate
name, be capable of purchasing and holding, bargaining and selling,
any property, real or personal, for the use of said church, whether by
legal or equitable title not to exceed in value the amount of five
thousand dollars in personal property or in real estate the amount of
five thousand acres.
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SEC. 2. They shall be further empowered to receive all and singular
any subscriptions, gifts, grants, donations, and bequests designed for
the benefit of said church, which shall be held and solely applied to the
use and benefit of said church in the manner in which said trustees
shall deem the most judicious and expedient.
1847 Local Acts-93-3
SEC. 3. It shall be lawful for the trustees of said church to hold
meetings at such times and places, and as often as it may suit them, or
as their business may require, to sit on adjournments, on the call of the
proper officers, or one of their body, and to elect or appoint such
officers and establish such rules or by-laws for their government as
they or a majority of them may see fit: Provided, That such rules or
by-laws shall not be incompatible with the constitution or laws of this
State or the United States.
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SEC. 4. It shall be lawful for the members of said church to
perpetuate the board of trustees by annual appointment, or in any way
they may think proper, and also fill vacancies which may in any way
occur; and the trustees at any time chosen shall hold their office for one
year and until their successors are chosen or appointed; they shall keep
a record of their proceedings, which shall be open to the inspection of
all persons concerned.
1847 Local Acts-129-1
SEC. 1. That hereafter it shall be lawful for the president and
trustees of the town of Cambridge City, Wayne county, Indiana, to pass
by-laws directing and requiring each owner or owners of any lot or
parts of lots in said town to have the side walk in front of the same, and
grade and gutter six feet of the street in front of such pavement.
1847 Local Acts-129-2
SEC. 2. Such by-laws shall not be operative until thirty days' notice
of the passage of the same shall be given by publication in some
weekly newspaper printed and published in said town.
1847 Local Acts-129-3
SEC. 3. Whenever the said president and trustees of said town shall
desire any owner or owners of any such lot or lots, or parts of lots to
pave and gutter the side walk street as provided in the first section of
this act, they shall give to such owner or owners, if resident of Wayne
county, Indiana, personal notice of such intention or desire, stating in
such notice the time within which he, she, or they will be required to
comply with the requirements of said first section, which notice may be
served and returned by any constable of said county of Wayne, and if
such owner or owners shall not reside in said county of Wayne, such
notice may be given in any weekly newspaper printed and published in
said town, or if no such paper is published in said town, then by six
written advertisements set up in the most public places in said town, for
at least thirty days: Provided further, That personal notice shall not be
required for the citizens of said town.
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SEC. 4. If any owner or owners of any such lot or lots or parts of lots
shall fail after due notice as above stated, given them to comply with
the requisitions of the first section of this act, it shall be lawful for said
president and trustees to levy a tax on such lot or lots or parts of lots as
will be sufficient for the purpose of paving in front and guttering as
heretofore set out, such tax to be collected as other corporation taxes
are collected by the collector of said corporation: The said collector
shall have power to sell such part or parts of lots as will be sufficient
to pave and gutter in front of said lot or lots, by giving twenty days'
notice of the time and place of such sale by publication in some weekly
newspaper printed and published in said town, or by written
advertisements set up in five of the most public places in said town:
Said collector shall be allowed the same fees for collecting such taxes
and making sale as are now allowed to the collector of said corporation.
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1847 Local Acts-172-2
SEC. 2. That said town council shall have power to levy a tax on all
the taxable property in said corporation for the purpose of paying said
subscription.
1847 Local Acts-204-1
SEC. 1. That John Allen, Hardin Weatherford, and John Rea, and
their successors in office, shall be, and they are hereby created a body
politic and corporate, by the name, style, and title of "The trustees of
the Underwood Burying Ground," and shall have power to contract and
be contracted with, sue and be sued, in any and all matters relating to
the burying ground hereinafter mentioned, and as such trustees shall
have perpetual succession.
1847 Local Acts-204-2
SEC. 2. Said trustees shall have power to hold to themselves and
their successors in office for a burying ground, all that certain tract or
parcel of land lying in Jefferson county, and State of Indiana, which
was conveyed by C. T. Lodge to them as such trustees, by deed dated
on the 17th day of September, 1845, being a small fraction of the
northeast quarter of section twenty-three, township four north, of range
ten east, and to have power over the same in laying it off for a burying
ground, and directing its use as such burying ground, for the
neighborhood, with power to protect it from violence or abuse, and to
make all suitable rules and regulations, such as they may think
necessary for its enclosure, and to make it useful, convenient, and
desirable for such a burying ground.
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SEC. 3. On the vacation of either or all the offices of said trustees
or their successors, either by a refusal to accept the office or removal
from the county, resignation, death or otherwise, the board doing
county business for the county of Jefferson shall, at any time when in
session, fill such vacancy or vacancies, and said ground so conveyed
to said trustees shall never revert to the heirs of any such trustees, but
shall continue as a burying ground forever.
1847 Local Acts-336-1
SEC. 1. That Ludewig Meier, Christian Buckhorn, Charles
Hegerhorst, Ferdinand Smith, George Smith, Gottleib Kellermeier, and
Charles Yobbe, and their successors in office are hereby constituted a
body politic and corporate, and shall be known by the name and style
of the "Trustees of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Church," and by
said corporate name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in
any court in this State, and by that name have perpetual succession, and
be capable of purchasing, holding, bargaining, and selling any property
either real or personal, for the use of said church, both by legal and
equitable title, not to exceed in value thirty thousand dollars.
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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.
1847 Local Acts-336-4
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.
1847 Local Acts-336-5
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 persons concerned.