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CHARTER AND STATUTES

KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 THE CHARTERS

BACON COLLEGE

AND

KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY:

ALSO THE OTHER

ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE

RELATING TO KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY;

TOGETHER \VITII THE

STATUTES,

AS REVISED AND ADOPTED BY THE

BOARD OF OURA'I'ORS,

JUNE 10, 1886.

LEXINGTON. KY.:
TRANSYLVANIA PRINTING COMPANY,
1886.

 

  

 

 

 

CONTENTS.

PAGE.
Charter of Bacon College .............................. 3
Charter of Kentucky University ........................ 5
Act authorizing Loan of Funds ........................ I I

Act to establish an Agricultural College in Kentucky . . .. I 1

Act to consolidate Kentucky University and Transylvania

University ........................................ 15
Act in relation to the Agricultural College .............. 16
Act to amend the Charter of Kentucky University ...... 17
Act in relation to the Agricultural and Mechanical College

of Kentucky,letc ................................... 18
Agreement between Kentucky University and H. H. Gratz 20
Act to amend the Charter of Kentucky University ...... - 22
Plan of the University .. .Q .......................... , . 23
The Board of Curators ................................ 23
Oflicers of the Board .................................. '24
The President of the University ........................ 25
The Faculties ....................................... 25
Admission ............................................ 28
Matriculation and Discharge ............................ 28
Discipline ............................................ 29
Examinations and Scale of Merit .' ..................... 30
Graduation and Degrees .............................. 30
Public Worship ...................................... 31
Literary and Religious Societies ........................ 32
The Library .......................................... 32
Historical Sketch ..................................... 34

 AGE.

CHARTER OF BACON COLLEGE.

 

 

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES OF THE BACON
COLLEGE LOCATED AT GEORGETOWN.

§'I. I36 22‘ enacted by Me Geneial [15501726112 of Me Com-
momveaZZ/z (y‘ilxeyzzuc/cq,’ That John T Johnson, John Curd ,John
Duncan, Samuel Nuclxols, James H. Davis, Hemy Johnson P.
S. Fall, T. C. Flournoy, G. W. Williams, Thomas Smith, H. lVI.
Bledsoe, Asa Runyon, John Bonan, Samuel Hatch, George
L. Nuckols and James Challen, shall be, and are hereby consti-
tuted a body politic and corporate, to be known and designated
by the name and style of the Trustees of the Bacon College, and
by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal,
With power to change and alter the same at pleasure and as a
b63V/“86fi’1‘o’1ate shall be autl10117eJto e\e1C1se ‘all the powers
plivileges and 11ghts Which are exeicised by the Trustees of the
College at Danville 111 this State, but the property of said cor-
pomtion shall be subject to taxation, except the College build-
ings and five acres of ground alound or near the same, and on
the death 1es1guation or other disqualification of any of the
said T1ustees, or their successors in oflice, a majority of those 111
office, may fill such vacancy or vacancies, and the person or
persons so appointed shall be vested with the same powers and
privileges as those named in this act, and by the name, style and
denomination of the Trustees of Bacon College, may sue and be
suéd, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in any
court of law or equity in this State.
,5 2. Be [1‘ fm t/zw enacted, That it shall and may be lawful
for said Trustees and their successo1s in office, in their corpo-
ratec capacity, to puichase 01 receive by donation, demise, or
bequeath, any lands, tenements, heieditaments, moneys, rents,
goods and Chattles, and to hold the same in the name aforesaid,
to the-in. and their successors f01‘ever,’for the use and benefit of

 

  

 

 

 

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said institution, and to sell, transfer, and convey the same under
the seal of said corporation.

§ 3. Be it fart/gar enacted, That the principal of the Fac~
ulty shall be Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and a majority
of the Trustees in oflice shall at all times constitute a quorum to
do business, and shall have power to meet at such times and
places as they may select for the transaction of business; and
may make such laws, rules and ordinances, necessary for the
proper government for said institution, as shall not be repug-
nant to the Constitution and'laws of the United States or of this
State; the said Trustees shall have power to select and appoint
such officers, teachers, tutors, and professors, for the manage-
ment of said institution as they may think necessary; to fix their
salaries, and prescribe their duties, to fix and prescribe the terms
upon which the students may be admitted, and for any miscon-
duct in any officer, teacher, tutor, or professor, to dismiss such
person from oflice, and to appoint another or others in their
stead.

§4. Be itfm't/zer enacted, That the said Trustees shall
keep a record of their proceedings, and, if necessary, appoint a
clerk to record the same, and to prescribe his duties; it shall be
the duty of the Chairman of the Trustees to have recorded in
the ofiice of the county court, where said institution is located,
the names of the Trustees thereof, and the names of such as may
hereafter be appointed.

§ 5. Be itfm't/zer enacted, That the real and personal es-
tate acquired by this corporation, shall at no time exceed the
yearly rent or value of ten thousand dollars.

§6. Be itfnrz‘lzer enacted, That the funds raised for en«
dowing any of the professorships, shall never be encroached
upon, and the funds raised shall not be diverted from the objects
contemplated: Provided flowever, That the interest of any of
the funds, when not needed for the special object for which
they were raised, may be appropriated as said Trustees may
direct. '

§.7. Be it furt/zer enacted, That full power is reserved to
the GeneralAssembly, to repeal or modify the privileges herein
granted. '

APPROVED FEBRUARY 23d, 1837.

 

 CHARTER OF KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY.

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF BACON COLLEGE.

WHEREAS, anInstitution of learning, known and called by
the name of Bacon College, was founded by certain members
of the body of thex“Disciples of Christ,” denominated “Chris-
tians,” and was chartered by the Legislature of Kentucky in the
year 1836 (1837); and whereas, said Institution, after a series of
unsuccessful efforts for its permanent endowment and establish-
ment, suspended its regular collegiate operation; and whereas, in
view of the educational wants of the said body of Christians in
Kentucky, and of their Wishes for the permanent success of
said Institution, known and expressed at various times, a plan
for its full endowment and reorganization has been presented
and prosecuted by John B Bowman, of Mercer county, Ken-
tucky, which has resulted thus far in the raising of $100,000 of
Endowment Fund; and whereas, it is desired to establish a
first-class University, upon a more modern, American and
Christian basis, and to carry out such design, it is necessary to
amend and extend the provisions of the Charter of said Insti-
tution; therefore,

Be it enacted by #26 General Assembly of 1726 Coumzonwcalflz of

of Ifmzz‘uc/Jy .-

§ 1. That said Institution, known and called by the name
of Bacon College, and located at Harrodsburg, in the county
of Mercer, and State of Kentucky, shall be from and after the
passage of this act, known and called by the name of Kentucky
University. ’ .

§ 2. That John B. Bowman, Jas. Taylor, John Aug. VVil-
liams, Benj. C. Allin, A. G. Kyle, A. H. Bowman, Jno. A. Dear-
born, D. W. Thompson, A. G. Vivion, Phil. B. Thompson, W. A.
Cooke, G. D. Runyon, A. G. Talbott, P. B. Mason, C. T. Worth-
ington, G. W. Givens, James C. Stone, A. G. Herndon, R. C.
Graves. William Morton, Joseph Wasson, John Curd, W. W.
McKenney, W. L. Williams, John Allen Gano, John I. Rogers,

 

  

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Zach. F. Smith, Robert C. Rice, Theodore 8. Bell, and Enos
Campbell, shall be, and they and their successors in office, are
hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, to be known
by the name of the Curators of Kentucky University, and by
that name shall have perpetual succession and existence, and a
common seal, which seal they may change and alter at pleasure;
and by the aforesaid name, and in their corporate capacity, may
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be con-
tracted with, answer and be answered, in all courts of law and
equity-,and the same,in their corporate name, are hereby in-
vested with the legal right to all the property and estate, real
and personal, as well as all the rights and claims, heretofore
vested in the Trustees of the said Bacon College, and may, in
said corporate name, sue for and recover the same, in as full and
ample manner as the said Trustees of Bacon College could have
done prior to this act.

§ 3. For the purpose of promoting the cause of education
in all its branches, and extending the sphere of science and
Christian morality. the Curators aforesaid, and their successors,
shall have power, from time to time, to establish and endow
fully in said University, any departments and professorships
which they may deem necessary to carry out the aforesaid
objects. They. and their successors, shall furthermore have full
power, in their corporate capacity, to hold, by gift, grant, devise,
demise,or otherwise, any lands. tenants (tenements), heredita-
ments, moneys, rents, goods, chattels, or interests, of any kind
whatsoever, which may be given, granted, demised, devised to,
or purchased by them, for the use and benefit of said University;
also, may sell, lease, rent, and dispose of the same, or any part
thereof, in any way whatsoever, they may adjudge most useful
to the interests of said University.

§ 4. They shall also have full power to select and employ
any ofiicers and agents they shall deem proper; also, such pres~
ident, professors, instructors, and tutors, as they may, from time
to time, consider necessary; also to make, ordain, establish, and
execute, or cause to be executed, all such by-laws, rules, and or-
dinances, not inconsistent with the constitution and la ws of the
United States, or of this State, as they may think necessary for
the welfare of said University, for their own government, the
good government of the professors, instructors, tutors, agents,
ofiicers, and students of the same; and generally to do all acts

 

 

  

 

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necessary and proper to promote the welfare and prosperity of
said University.
§ 5. The permanent ofiicers of the Board of Curators shall

consist of a President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Executive Com-

mittee, all of whom shall be annually elected by the Curators
from their own number, except the Treasurer, who may be
elected out of the Board, ,

§ 6. The Secretary of the Board shall keep a fair and cor-
rect rec'ord of all the proceedings of the Board, in a good and
substantial book, which record shall be signed by the President
and Secretary before the adjournment of each meeting, and shall
at any time be subject to the inspection and examination of any
member of the Board, or any donor of the Institution. He shall
file away, and carefully preserve, all such documents and papers
pertaining to his ofiice and to the Institution, as may come into
his hands, which shall, upon his death, resignation or removal
from ollice, be delivered up to the Board, and he shall perform
such other duties as the Curators may prescribe.

§ 7. The Treasurer, before he enters upon the duties of
his office, shall enter into a bond, with ample security, in
the penalty of one hundred thousand dollars, for the
faithful discharge of the duties of his office. He shall
take charge of all the funds of the Institution; he shall pay
over all money that may come into his hands, upon the or-
der of the Board; indorsed by the President. thereof. He shall
pay out no money except upon such order of the Board,
he shall render a true account current of the state of his office to
the Board of Curators, at its annual meeting, which account
must be accompanied by the certificate of the Executive Com-
mittee, signed by each member thereof, and stating that it has
been examined, and that it is correct, after which it shall then
be published; and no person shall be eligible to re-election as
Treasurer until such report is made, examined, and approved by
the Board of Curators; he shall furthermore, when his term of
service expires, or he shall resign his oflice, or be removed
therefrom, deliver up to the Executive Committee, or their or-
der, all the books and papers pertaining to his oflice, and in
each and every particular account for and pay over all money or
other thing of value which may come into his hands as Treas-
urer He shall also permit his books to be examined at any and
all times, by the Executive Committee, or any donor of the In-

 

  

 

stitution. The bond of the Treasurer shall be placed in the
hands of the Secretary of the Board, and shall be renewed upon
a re- election to the office, which bond shall be made payable to
the C111ato1s of said Lni1 ersity.

§ 8. F01 the ownership and control of said University, at
least two-thirds ofthe Board of Curators shall always be mem-
bers of the Christian Church in Kentucky; at no time shall any
memq'be1 of the Faculty be a member of the Board

§.9 An annual meeting of the Board ot Culatms shall be

held6 du1ing the commencement week of the Unive1sity,-1
which time they shall cause to be published a general account of
the condition of the Institution. A meeting shall be called
any other time, by the President of the Board, at the sugges-
tion of any three members, or the President of the Universi-
ty. Nine members shall constitute a quorum for ordinary
business, one of whom shall be President 2570 z‘cm. in the ab-
sence of the President of the Board, and less than a quorum
shall have the power of adjourning from day to day, or to any
future (lay, until a quorum shall be had
§ IO. A majority of all the Curators shall have power to
remove a Curator from ofiice, for any cause they may deem
sufficient, and shall also have power to define the qualifications
of a Curator; and whenever any Curator shall absent himself
from two successive annual meetings of. the Board, without as-
signing a sufficient reason therefor, his seat shall be declared
thereby vacant, and the Board shall, at its next meeting, proceed
to the election of a new Curator to fill such vacancy. All va-
cancies by death, resignation, or removal from ofiice, or other-
wise shall be filled by a quorum.

§ 1 I. No less than a majority of the whole Board shall have
power to appoint the President, professors, instructors, and tutors,
and all other officers and agents, to fix their compensation, or
increase or diminish the same, to remove the same from ofiice
for sufiicient cause, and to fill all vacancies in the same, whether
by death. resignation, removal, or otherwise : Provided, a va-
cancy may be filled by a quorum until a meeting of said majority
shall be held.

§ 12. The Curators, upon the recommendation of the
President and Faculty of the University, shall have power to.
grant such literary honorsas are usually granted by the best
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honors as the Board and Faculty may think necessary, and
in testimony thereof, to give suitable certificates or diplomas,
under the seal of the corporation, and every such diploma shall
entitle its possessor to all the immunities and privileges which,
by any law or usage, are allowed to the possessors of diplomas
granted by any college or university in the United States.

§ 13. All the provisions of the charter of Bacon College,
heretofore enacted, which are in conflict with the provisions of
this act, are hereby annulled and repealed.

§ 14. All lands, money, or other property, which may, by
donation, devise, deed of gift, or otherwise, be contributed to
said University, shall be strictly applied according to the in-
structions given by the donor or testator, and all money thus
donated as a permanent endowment fund, shall be principal, and
shall be, as the same accrues, invested in good, safe, profitable
and permanent stocks, which shall remain forever intact, and
the amount whereof is to be in no respect or in any manner
Whatever diminished, subject however, as necessity may de-
mand, to investment and reinvestment in such stocks, the
proceeds of such stocks, either in the form of dividend or inter—
est, or rents, shall be a fund in the hands of the Treasurer, sub-
ject to the order of the Board of Curators, and shall'be used as
the Board may direct, for the purposes of the University.

§ 15. For maintaining and carrying out effectually the dis-
cipline of said University, Be it fart/207' enacted, that if, by any
person, money be lent, or advanced, or anything sold, or let to
hire on credit, to or for the use of any student, or pupil under
twenty - one years of age, at the said University, without
the previous permission in writing, of his parent or guardian,
or the authorized oflicers of said Institution, nothing shall be re-
covered therefor by action of debt, and there shall, moreover, be
forfeited to the Institution twenty dollars, and the amount or
value of such money or other things; Where such selling, let-
ting, lending, or advancing, is by an agent, such forfeiture shall
be by his principal, unless the principal shall, within ten days
after he has knowledge or information of the selling, letting,
lending, or advancing, give notice, in writing, to the President,
or other head of the Institution, that it was done Without his
knowledge or consent, in which case the forfeiture shall be by
the agent.

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of this act, as to be liable to the forfeiture thereby declared, he
shall, moreover, be fined not less than fifty nor more than three
hundred dollars, and upon conviction, he shall be bound by the
court, in a sum not less than five hundred dollars, with at least
two sufiicient securities, to be of good behavior for one year, and
any subsequent violation of the section aforesaid shall be held
to be a forfeiture of the recognizance. .

§ 17. It shall be the duty of the judge of the lV’Iercer Cir-
cuit Court to give the fifteenth and sixteenth sections of this
act in charge to the grand jury, at each and every term of said
court, and the penalties imposed in the above-named sections
for a violation or violations of any of the provisions thereof,
shall be recovered by indictment found by the grand jury, one—
half of the aforesaid penalty to go to the attorney of the Com-
monwealth.

§ 18, That if the President, or any agent, or the Treasurer
or any other officer of the Board of Curators, or of the Univer-
sity, without the authority of the Board, properly given and en-
tered of record, as before directed, appropriate any of the funds
of the Institution to his own use, or that ofany other person, or
shall wilfully fail to make correct entries, or shall knowingly
make false entries upon the books of the Institution, with the
intent to cheat or defraud the same. or any contributor tothe
funds thereof, or to hide or conceal any improper appropriation
of said funds, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of
felony, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to con-
finement in the jail or penitentiary of the State for a period of
not less than one or more than twenty years

§ 19. The Board of Curators of Kentucky University shall
consist of not less than thirty members, a majority of whom shall
at all times reside out of the county of Mercer; and in any coun-
ty of this State Where the sum of fifteen thousand dollars may
be subscribed to the endowment fund of the University, there

ishall be a representation of at leastone member in the Board.

§ 20. This act to take effect from and after the date of its
passage.

APPROVED January 15th, 1858.

ACCEPTED by the Trustees of Bacon College, February 2d,
1858.

ACCEPTED by the Board of Curators of Kentucky Universia
ty, February 2d, 1858.

 

  

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AN ACT AUTHORIZING KENTUCKY U\‘ I\ ERSITY TO LOAN
OUT ITS FUNDS.
Be at eimcz‘cd by Me Gcflmal Assembly of Me ConzmmzweaZX/z
of [xeizz‘uc/y.

§ 1. That it shall and may be lawful for the Board of
Curators of Kentucky Univeisitv to loan out any of the
funds belonging to said University, upon mortgage or other
security, at any rate of interest that may be agreed upon, not
exceeding the rate of ten per cent. perc annum.

§ 2. This act shall take eflect fiom and after its passage

APPROVED February 13th,1863.

ACCEPi ED by the Board of C111ators of Kentucky Universi-
ty, June 23d, 1563. I

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE IN
KENTUCKY.

VVHEkEAs, The Curators of the Kentucky University pro-
pose to locate their University in Fayette county, in or near
the city of Lexington, and said Curators and the Trustees of
Transylvania University propose to consolidate the two Uni-
versities, and all the funds and property of each, into one corpo-
ration, under the name of the Kentucky University; and it apa
pearing that said Curators have' a cash endowment of two l11111~
dred thousand dollars, yielding an annual income of about
twelve thousand dollars, and that there are cash funds of Tran-
sylvania Univeisit\ , to be united \y ith them, of fifty- nine thou-
sand dollais, yielding an annual income of 0V e1 thiee thousand
five hundred dollars, besides the grounds, buildings, library,

. apparatus, and other property of Transylvania University, of the

value and cost exceeding one hundred thousand dollars; and
said institution, when so consolidated, proposes to raise an ad-
ditional one hundred thousand dollars to purchase a farm and
erect all the necessary buildings and improvements to carry on
the operations of an Agricultural and Mechanical College,
and connect therewith a model or experimental farm, with i11-
dustrial pursuits, to enable such pupils as choose to do so to sus—
tain themselves, in whole or in part, while acquiring their ed11-
cation; and fuither propose, that the State of Kentucky shall
establish the Agricultulal and Mechanical College of Kentucky
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and endow the same with the income of the fund which shall
arise from the sale of land scrip granted to Kentucky by the
Congress of the United States for the purpose of establishing
said college; and upon the State of Kentucky so establishing
and endowing said college, the Curators of Kentucky Univer-
sity will furnish, in reasonable time, all the necessary lands,
buildings, apparatus, Sic, for such college, and proceed at once
to organize said college, and put the same in operation in accor:
dance with this act and the act of Congress, and subject to the
Visitorial control of the State of Kentucky, in its organization
and general management, and with the sole control, by the
State, of its said fund, in keeping the principal of the same per-
petually secure; now, therefore,
Be it e/mez‘ed by Me General Ame/”My of Me Cox/mm/zweaZi/L

of Kentucky .-

§ I. That there shall be, and is hereby, established, the
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, located in
the county of Fayette, in or near the city of Lexington, which
shall be a College of Kentucky University.

§ 2. Be it fzw'f/zer emzcied, That the leading object in said
College shall be to teach such branches of learning as are re-
lated to agriculture and the mechanical arts, including military
tactics, without excluding other scientific and classical studies,
in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the
industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.

§ 3. Be it furt/zer enacted, That to el'l‘ect the said leading
object of said. college. there shall be established therein the
competent number of professorships for teaching the sciences
related to agriculture and the mechanical arts, including mili—
tary tactics. which professorships shall be filled by able and
competent professors, aided by such assistants, tutors, and other
instructors, as shall, from time to time, be necessary; and, as a
part of said college, there shall be conducted an experimental or
model farm, with the usual accessories thereto, and of size pro-
portioned to the number of students; and on said farm, and in
the mechanical arts, there shall be provided to the students op—
portunities for industrial pursuits, at stated times, whereby agri-
culture and the mechanical arts may be practically learned, and
the student enabled to earn his support While being educated,
in whole or in part, by his labor and industry.

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professors, instructors, and other officers and assistants of said
College, and in prescribing the studies and exercises thereof,
and in every part of the management and government thereof,
no partiality or preference shall be shown to one sect or relig-
ious denomination over another; nor shall anything sectarian be
taught therein; and persons engaged in the conducting, govern-
ing, managing, and controlling said College and its studies and
exercises, in all its parts, are hereby constituted officers and
agents of the whole Commonwealth, in faithfully and impar-
tially carrying out the provisions of this act for the common
good, irrespective of sects or parties, political or religious

§ 5. [2’6 zz‘fm't/zcr enacted, That the Curators of Kentucky
Unive1sity shall organize said Agricultural and Mechanical Col-
lege by establishing the pr'opel p1ofess01sh1ps and officers, with
the salaries and compensation thereof, and filling the same, from
time to time, by their appointments; provide the necessary
grounds, buildings, and improvements, and conduct, carry on,
and manage the said College, as provided in this act; and said
Curators, to aid them in conducting said College and defraying
the expenses thereof, shall receive all the income of the fund
W hich shall a1 ise f1 om the sale of land sc1ipgranted to the State
of Kentucky by the act of Congress, entitled “An act donating
public lands to the several States andTerritories which may pro-
vide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanical
arts,” approved July 2d, 1862; and which income shall be appro-
priated by said Curators to the payment of the salaries of the
professors, and other ofiicers and employes of said College, and
other expenses of conducting the same, and the farm and indus-
trial pursuits incidental thereto, and to no other purpose what-
ever: Provz'ded, That a majority of the professors of said Col-
lege shall not at any one time belong to the same ecclesiastical
denomination.

§6. Be z'z‘fm't/zcr enacted, That the Governor, with the
advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint six visitors of
said College, who shall constitute the Board of Visitors thereof,
and appoint one of their number chairman of the Board; and
said Board shall have, at all times, full power to inspect and ex-
amine into all the details of the managing and conducting of
said College, and to see that all the provisions of this act are
carried into effect, according to their true meaning and intent;
and it shall be the duty of said Board to point out to the Cura-

 

  

 

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tors of Kentucky University all defects or departures from the
provisions of this act, in conducting and managing of said col-
lege, and suggest the proper mode of correcting them; and said
Curators shall proceed to correct them; and it shall be further
the duty ofsaid Board of Visitors to report to every biennial meet-
ing of the General Assembly the condition and management of
said college; and if, at any time, it shall appear to the General As-
sembly that the Curators have persisted in not carrying the pro-
visions of this act into efi‘ect, according to their true object and
spirit, and in disregarding the requirements of the Board of Vis-
itors, it shall be lawful to deprive. either temporarily or perma—
nently, said College of the endowment of the income of the
fund aforesaid. The Visitors shall hold their oflice for two
years, and until their successors are appointed. Vacancies in
said Board by death, resignation, or expiration of term of otiicea
during the recess of the General Assembly, shall be filled by
the Governor until the end of the next succeeding session.

§ 7. Be it fart/gar enacted, That as soon as the said Col-
lege is organized for the reception and proper instruction of
pupils, the Curators shall make known the same to the Gover-
nor and President of the Board of Education; and thereupon,
each representative district of the State shall be entitled to send
to said College, free of charge for tuition, one properly prepared
pupil for each member said district is entitled to elect to the
General Assembly; and when the whole of said land scrip shall
be sold and invested, each district shall be entitled to send three-
of such properly prepared pupils to said College for each mem-
ber the district is authorized to elect. Said pupils shall have
the right of receiving, free of charge tor tuition, the benefit of
any instruction given in any of the Colleges or classes of the-
University, except those of law and medicine . The pupils shall
be selected by the majority of the justices of the peace of said
districts.

§ 8 Be it furl/gar enacted, The provisions of this act
shall not go into effect until Transylvania University and Ken-
tucky University shall be consolidated into one corporation, un--
der the name of the Kentucky University, and the funds, prop-
erty, &c., of Transylvania University shall be vested in the-
Curators of Kentucky University, as successors of the Trustees
of Transylvania University; nor until the Curators of Kentucky
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act, and accept this act as part of its charter. A copy of said
resolution, and of the action of the Trustees of Transylvania
University, and the Curators of the Kentucky University, in ac-
cepting said consolidation, shall be laid before the Governor;
whereupon he shall, by writing, signed by him, and under the
seal of the State, authorize the Curators of the Kentucky Uni-
versity to organize the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Kentucky, in pursuance of this act.

§ 9. The General Assembly reserves the right to modify
and repeal, at pleasure, so much of this act as refers to the estab-
lishment of the Agricultura