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1850 Local Acts-138-2
SEC. 2. The said trustees and their successors in office shall be
empowered to receive any and all subscriptions, gifts, grants,
donations, and bequests, which shall be applied solely to the uses and
benefit of such church in the manner the trustees thereof muy 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 time as it may be deemed 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 from time to time
as a majority may determine: Provided, however, That such rules and
by-laws shall not be inconsistent with the laws or constitution of this
State or the United States.
1850 Local Acts-138-4
SEC. 4. It shall be lawful for the members of the Evangelical
Lutheran St. John's Church, to perpetuate the board of trustees hereby
appointed by annual appointment, or by any other mode they may deem
proper. They may also increase the number of said board when the
same may be deemed necessary, and fill all vacancies that may at any
time occur therein.
1850 Local Acts-138-5
SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of said board to keep a record of their
proceedings, which shall at all times be open to the inspection of all
persons concerned.
1850 Local Acts-213-1
SEC. 1. That any congregation of the Protestant Episcopal church
in this State may elect such number of wardens and vestrymen as may
be desired, or as may be in accordance with their usage, not exceeding
ten.
1850 Local Acts-265-1
SEC. 1. That Jacob Hettinger, Michael Philips, John M. Sturm,
Landelin Herman, and Florrence Reil, and their successors in office for
ever, are constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The
Trustees of St. Paul's Church of New Alsace."
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SEC. 2. The said body politic and corporate is hereby invested with
all the powers, rights, and privileges which are conferred by or under
the second article of the twenty-fifth chapter of the Revised Statutes,
passed at the twenty-seventh session of said General Assembly, upon
churches or religious societies which have or may become bodies
corporate and politic, according to the provisions of said article.
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SEC. 3. Said trustees named in the first section shall hold their
office and exercise the powers [above] granted until their successors
shall be elected by the church or religious society now existing at said
new Alsace under the name of "St. Paul's Church," according to the
common usuage of said church.
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SEC. 4. The fee simple of any land not exceeding twenty acres,
which has heretofore been purchased by said church or religious
society, or conveyed to them or to any person for their use and benefit,
is hereby vested in said trustees and their successors in office for ever,
for the use and benefit of said church.
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SEC. 5. That Martin Stahl, John Heinberger, Charles Jacger, Joseph
Ege, Anthony Walliser, Jacob Hittinger, and Casper Maus and their
successors in office for ever, are constituted a body politic and
corporate by the name of "The Trustees of St. Joseph's School Society
of New Alsace."
1850 Local Acts-265-6
SEC. 6. Said school society shall be composed of such persons as
are members of the voluntary association now existing at said town of
New Alsace, under the name of "St. Joseph's School Society," and of
such persons as shall hereafter be admitted into said society as
members thereof.
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SEC. 7. The time and mode of electing of trustees and of other
officers of said society, and the mode and terms of admission of new
members may be regulated by vote of a majority of said society present
at any meeting of said society held after reasonable notice.
1850 Local Acts-265-8
SEC. 8. The said trustees and their successors in office may adopt
a corporate seal, may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with,
and exercise all the corporate rights and privileges conferred by or
under the second article aforesaid upon societies which have or may
become incorporated under the said article.
1850 Local Acts-265-10
SEC. 10. It shall be lawful for said trustees to erect such buildings
ad they may deem necessary for educational purposes, to receive
subscriptions of money or other articles of value to aid in erecting the
same, to contract with persons sending to any school taught under their
direction for tuition fees, and the payments of such subscriptions and
fees, to enforce by suit or suits, to pass and change any by-laws not
inconsistent with law for the regulation of its affairs or members, and
collect by suit any moneys which may become due under the same, or
for violation thereof, and generally to do and perform such acts as may
be necessary to establish and maintain a seminary of learning.
1850 Local Acts-269-1
SEC. 1. That Robert Furnas, Eli Overman, John Pool, William
Hobbs, John Maxwell, Thomas Evans, Elijah Coffin, James Stanton,
Richard Hayworth, Jacob Elliott, George Evans, Joseph Cox, Henry
Harvey, Francis Thomas, William Pearson, Thomas M. Sanders,
Richard Pedrick, Aaron White, James Lindley, Eleazer Bales,
Benjamin Fulghum, Jacob Hadley, Thomas Arnet, Luke Thomas, and
Jessey Spray, together with all other members of Indiana Yearly
Meeting of the religious society of Friends, who with their predessors
in religious faith have for more than twenty-five years past held their
annual or yearly meeting at White Water meeting house near Richmond
in Wayne county, Indiana, be, and they are hereby invested with the
power usually given to incorporate bodies, for the holding, receiving,
managing, disposing, and appropriating of real and personal estate, for
religious, educational, charitable and benevolent purposes, by the name
of "Indiana Yearly meeting of the religious society of Friends," and
shall have power to make and use a common seal, and the same to
change and alter at pleasure, and that they and their successors being
admitted and approved of as members of said Yearly Meeting
according to their order and discipline, shall have perpetual succession,
and be able and capable in law, to receive, hold and enjoy, by purchase,
devise, gift, or otherwise, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, and
chattels, estates and property of every kind, (not however exceeding the
annual net value of twenty thousand dollars) of which they shall stand
seized and possessed notwithstanding any misnomer or imperfect
description in the gift, grant, or other transfer or conveyance thereof:
Provided, the intent be evident, the said Yearly Meeting shall take the
same, to use, manage, improve, or otherwise dispose of at their will and
pleasure, to make and establish all such rules and regulations relative
to the management of said property as they may deem expedient:
Provided, the same are not repugnant to the laws of this State, or of the
United States; and the generally to do and perform all acts, matters and
things, relative to the purpose aforesaid as a corporate body could by
law have power to do and perform: Provided, nevertheless, that in
every case which any donation, gift, devise, or bequest of any kind, has
been made or shall hereafter be made to the said Yearly Meeting in
trust for any particular object or purpose, the intent of the donor, or
devisor, shall be forever regarded, and the donation, gift, devise or
bequest shall be forever used, employed, and appropriated to the full
and faithful execution of the trust and the object and the purposes of
the donation, gift, devise, or bequest according to the true intent and
meaning of the donor or devisor thereof.
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SEC. 2. That whenever said Yearly meeting at their annual or other
meeting shall appoint a clerk, treasurer, trustees, committees, and other
officers and agents, for any length of time they may deem expedient to
act for them, or in their behalf, such clerk, treasurer, trustees,
committees, and all other officers and agents which they the said
Yearly Meeting shall or may appoint in the usual way and manner of
appointing them, shall be considered and deemed their officers and
agents under the provisions of this act, and they shall be constituted
and empowered with all lawful authority to act for said Yearly Meeting,
in accordance with its special orders and instructions to them directed,
either in purchasing, disposing, and conveying, of all or any of its estate
either real or personal, and in all other matters whatever contemplated
by this act.
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SEC. 3. That the said yearly meeting of Friends are hereby
authorized and empowered to vest in a clerk, treasurer, trustees,
committees, or other officers, and agents, which the said yearly meeting
may appoint from time to time, power and authority to manage and
improve the estates and funds in the possession of said meeting for the
use of religious, literary, moral, and benevolent institutions or objects,
according to the directions given to them by the said yearly meeting of
Friends, and subject always to such rules and regulations as the said
yearly meeting, in their usual mode of transacting their business, may
establish and direct.
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SEC. 4. That all the estate and property of every kind now held and
belonging to the said yearly meeting, either for their own use, or that
which may be held by or for the use of any of its subordinate meetings
within this State, or by any person in trust for the use of its boarding
school, or for any and all religious, literary, charitable, or benevolent
purposes, be and the same is hereby secured to them and their
successors, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to hold,
enjoy, and manage, and otherwise dispose of, and convey, all the estate
and property so held according to the direction of the said yearly
meeting, under the provisions of this act.
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1850 Local Acts-269-6
SEC. 6. That nothing in this act contained shall impair or alter, or
in any way effect any of the usages, customs, orders, modes, and rules
of discipline used and practiced by the said Indiana yearly meeting of
Friends, or in their meetings for sufferings, or other subordinate
meetings or branches of the said yearly meeting, touching their
religious concerns, all of which usages, customs, modes, orders, rules,
and discipline are reserved to them in the same way and manner and
with the same effect as though this act had been passed.
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That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to effect vested
rights, or any question or dispute that has existed, or may now exist, in,
or with the society of Friends with regard to any meeting-house,
school-house, gift, fund, or any other property, real, personal, or mixed,
but the same shall be held, or occupied, and enjoyed in every respect,
and to all intents and purposes as though this act had not been passed.
1850 Local Acts-269-8
SEC. 8. That the Legislature may at any time hereafter alter or
amend this act, or limit or modify the powers herein granted, as may
appear consonant with the public welfare, and consistent with vested
rights.
1850 Local Acts-331-1
SEC. 1. That F.D. Wheeler, John K. Mentel, J.M. Mathes, Thomas
Connelly, Benjamin Irvine, Elijah Goodwin, J.B. Craft, John O. Kane,
B.T. Reeve, S.K. Hoshour, George Campbell, Jeremiah Smith, John
Brownlee, Ambrose D. Hamrick, Higgins Lane, James Ford, A.E.
Drapier, Milton B. Hopkins, J.B. New, R.S. Browne, Michael Combs,
O. Butler, L.H. Jameson, J.M. Bramwell, A. Houghton, Jacob Wright,
T.J. Edmonson, E.F. Peabody, P.T. Russell, Paris C. Dunning, G.W.
New, G.W. Smith, Corbly Martin, B.F. Flinn, M. Cole, D.C. Stewart,
Stephen Younger, Thomas Lockhart, John Longly, A.B. Cole, Alfred
Davis, M.R. Trimbell, and Thomas M. Adams be, and they are hereby
appointed commissioners, under the direction of whom, or any of them,
subscriptions may be received to the capital stock of the North Western
Christian University, hereby incorporated, and they, or any of them,
may cause books to be opened at any time for the purpose of receiving
subscriptions to the capital stock of said company, and may continue
the same open until such a subscription to the capital stock of said
company, as is necessary to its incorporation, shall be obtained.
1850 Local Acts-331-2
SEC. 2. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than
seventy-five thousand dollars, nor more than five hundred thousand
dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, which may be
subscribed for by any individual, or corporation, or by any Christian
Church Society, or congregation, in the name of its trustee, which
trustee shall, however, be personally responsible for such subscription,
and as soon as seven hundred and fifty shares of such capital stock
shall be subscribed to the satisfaction of said commissioners, or a
majority of them, the subscribers of said stock, their successors or
assigns, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be incorporated into
a company by the name of "The North Western Christian University,"
and by that name shall be capable in law of receiving, taking
purchasing, holding, selling, leasing, and conveying, or using,
occupying, and enjoying all such real and personal estate and property
as shall or may be necessary or proper for the purpose hereinafter
mentioned, not exceeding, however, in value at any one time the sum
of five hundred thousand dollars, and shall have perpetuated
succession, and by such corporate name may sue and be sued, and may
have and use a common seal, which they shall have power to alter or
renew at pleasure, and shall have and enjoy, and may exercise all the
powers, rights, and privileges which other corporate bodies may
lawfully do for the purposes mentioned in this act.
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SEC. 3. That the objects and purposes contemplated by this act of
incorporation are hereby declared to be to establish, found, build up,
maintain, sustain, and perpetuate, through the instrumentality of said
company, at or in the vicinity of the city of Indianapolis, in the State of
Indiana, an institution of learning of the highest class for the education
of the youth of all parts of the United States, and especially of the
States of the Northwest; to establish in said institution departments or
colleges for the instructing of the students in every branch of liberal
and professional education; to educate and prepare suitable teachers for
the common schools of the country; to teach and inculcate the Christian
faith and Christian morality as taught in the sacred Scriptures,
discarding as uninspired and without authority all writings, formulas,
creeds, and articles of faith subsequent thereto, and for the formation
[promotion] of the sciences and arts. The affairs and business of the
said company, and of said institution, shall be under the control and
management of a board of twenty-one directors, to be elected by the
stockholders every third year, and that at the election of said directors,
and on all other occasions where a vote of the stockholders is to be
taken, each stockholder shall be allowed one vote for each share owned
by him, or her, and each stockholder may vote either in person or by
proxy duly appointed, and authorized in writing so to do.
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SEC. 4. So soon as seventy-five thousand dollars of the capital stock
of said company shall be subscribed to the satisfaction of said
commissioners, or a majority of them, they shall appoint a time and
place for holding the first election of directors, of which they shall give
such notice as they may deem proper and sufficient; said
commissioners, or a majority of them, may also prescribe the manner
of holding and conducting said first election, and subsequently thereto,
in every three years, there shall be a like election of directors, to be
holden at such time and place, and upon such notice, and in such
manner as the board of directors shall prescribe.
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SEC. 5. The directors so chosen shall serve as such for the term of
three years, and until their successors are chosen, and shall constitute
the board of directors of the North Western Christian University. They
shall choose one of their own body as president of said board, and may
choose either from their own members, or other stockholders in said
company, a treasurer, secretary, and such other servants and agents of
said company and of said board as to them shall seem necessary and
proper, all of whom shall serve as such during the pleasure of the
board. The said board shall have power to make its own by-laws, rules,
and regulations, and may prescribe and define the right to [and]
powers, duties, and liabilities within the limits of this act, and of the
laws of the State, of each, any, and all the servants and agents of the
said company, or of the said board.
1850 Local Acts-331-6
SEC. 6. The said board of directors are hereby empowered to
expend any amount which be necessary, not exceeding one-third of the
capital stock of said company, in the purchase and procurement of a
suitable site and ground for the said institution, and in the purchase of,
or the building, and erecting thereon suitable buildings for said
incorporation, and in the purchase and procurement of all proper
fixtures, appurtenances, apparatus, furniture, library, &c., for the use
of said institution, the balance of the said capital stock not so expended
and applied shall be kept and retained as a permanent fund for the
endowment of the said institution, and may be loaned out by said board
upon good and ample security at an interest of six per cent. per annum,
payable annually in advance, such interest to be used and applied to, to
maintain, sustain, and support such institution.
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1850 Local Acts-331-8
SEC. 8. In case any subscriber shall fail to make full payment of his
subscription as contemplated by the provisions of this act, the board of
directors may at any time after said failure, either before or after suit
therefor, declare the stock of said delinquent subscriber forfeited, and
strike his name and his stock from the books of the company.
1850 Local Acts-331-9
SEC. 9. Upon the full payment and security of the amount of his or
her subscription as hereinafter contemplated, each subscriber shall
receive from the said board of directors a proper certificate or
certificates of the numbers of shares and amount of stock held by him
or her, which stock shall be transferable and transmissible as other
personal property: Provided, That no assignment or transfer of said
stock shall be recognized, or allowed by the said board or by said
company, unless such assignment and transfer be made and entered on
the books of the company.
1850 Local Acts-331-10
SEC. 10. The said board of directors are hereby authorized to keep
the books of said company open to receive further subscriptions to the
capital stock of said company, to any amount which they may think
proper, not exceeding, however, in the whole the said sum of five
hundred thousand dollars; and all such new subscribers shall enjoy the
same rights and privileges, and be subject to the same duties and
liabilities as the original share holders.
1850 Local Acts-331-12
SEC. 12. The said board of directors are hereby authorized and
empowered, for and in the name of said company, to select and locate
in the city of Indianapolis, or in its vicinity, a suitable and proper site
and location for the buildings of the institution, and to purchase and
procure the same with such adjacent grounds as they may think proper,
to be conveyed to the said company in fee, to provide and establish
thereon an institution of learning, to be called "The North-Western
Christian University;" to purchase and procure, or build and erect
thereon, all such halls, buildings, and edifices as shall be necessary for
the use and occupancy of such institution, and to purchase and procure
for the use of said institution all proper fixtures, appurtenances,
apparatus, furniture, and library, and to open, maintain, sustain, and
support the said North-Western Christian University, for the purposes
herein specified.
1850 Local Acts-331-13
SEC. 13. The said board of trustees [directors] shall have the control
and management of the said institution; may establish as many chairs
and professors, and appoint such president and professors as they may
think proper and remove the same at pleasure; and may by their
by-laws and ordinances, determine and define the powers and duties of
such presidents and professors, both individually and collectively:
Provided, No degree shall be conferred or diploma granted except to
students who have obtained the same proficiency in the liberal arts and
sciences as is customary for students in other similar institutions, to
entitle them to the same degrees and diplomas.
1850 Local Acts-331-14
SEC. 14. The board of directors shall meet annnually at Indianapolis
on the Tuesday next after the fourth Monday in May, in each year, and
at such other times as said board may determine, until the opening of
the said institution; and thereafter the times and place of their meetings
shall be determined by the board, a majority of whom shall constitute
a quorum; the president and [or] any three of the directors may at any
time call a special meeting of the board.
1850 Local Acts-331-16
SEC. 16. All property, either real or personal, held by said company,
for the purposes hereby contemplated, shall be exempt from taxation.
1850 Local Acts-331-17
SEC. 17. This act shall be taken and held as a public act, and shall
be liberally construed for every beneficial purpose hereby entertained,
[intended] and no omission to use any of the privileges hereby granted
shall cause the forfeiture thereof, nor shall any gift, grant, purchase,
sale, or conveyance to or for the benefit of said company be defeated
or prejudiced by any misnomer, misdescription, or informality
whatever.
1850 Local Acts-338-1
SEC. 1. That Milton Stapp, William G. Wharton, C.P.J. Arion, D.D.
Jones, and Michael C. Garber, and their successors in office, be, and
they are hereby created a body corporate and politic, by the name, style,
and title of "the Jefferson County Historical Society," with power to
organize and transact business under and by the authority of the 32d
chapter, article 2d, of the revised code of 1843.