AN ACT to incorporate the Madison University
Passed March 26, 1846 by a two-third vote.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:
§ 1. Friend Humphrey, Seneca Burchard, William Colgate and associates
are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of “The Madison
University,” for the purpose of promoting literature and science. The
said corporation will have perpetual succession with power to sue and
be sued; to make and use a common seal and alter the name at pleasure;
to hold real and personal property but it shall not at any time own real
estate yielding an annual income exceeding $10,000. The location
of said university shall be at the Village of Hamilton, in the county
of Madison.
§ 2. This is all the name of the original board of trustees: Friend
Humphrey, Seneca D. Burchard, William Colgate, William L. Marcy, Palmer
Townsend, William Cobb, Ira Harris, Henry Tower, Nathaniel Kendrick,
Alva Pierce, Bartholomew T. Welch, Edward Bright, junior, William R.
Williams, Robert Kelley, Harvey Edwards, Charles Walker, Smith Sheldon,
Joseph Caldwell, John Moore, John N Wilder, George Curtis, Elias Tucker,
Pharcellus Church, James Edmonds, Joseph Trevor, Amos Graves, Alonzo
Wheelock are hereby appointed trustees of the said corporation are hereby
appointed with power to fill any vacancy in the board, of whom nine members
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
§ 3. The said board of trustees shall appoint to the professors,
and such other instructors as they may deem necessary, subject to removal
by a majority of the votes of all the members constituting the board.
§ 4. The said university may grant to students under its
charge, diplomas or honorary testimonials in such form as it may designate. It
may also confer such literary honors, degrees, and diplomas as are usually
granted by any university, college or seminary of learning, in the United
States.
§ 5. Diplomas granted by the university shall entitle the
possessors to the amenities and privileges allowed by usage or statute,
to the possessors of like diplomas from any college or seminary of learning
in the State.
§ 6. The Diploma shall be conferred by the university, but
in conformity with the laws of the State in force at the time of conferring
the same.
§ 7. The said University shall be subject to the visitation
of the regents of the university of this State in the same manner and
to the same extent as the various colleges in this State.
§ 8. The corporation hereby created shall possess the powers and
be subject to the provisions of the third title eighteenth chapter of
the first part of the Revised Statute, so far as the same are applicable
and have not been repealed.
§ 9. The Baptist Education Society of the State of New York is
hereby authorized to make such arrangement with the said University for
the transfer of the property of the said society, or any part thereof,
either absolutely or conditionally, to the said university, as the said
society shall deem proper.
§ 10. The Legislature may at any time alter or repeal this
act.
State of New York, In Assembly, March 17, 1846. This having been
read the third time and two-thirds of all the members elected to the
Assembly voting in favor thereof. Resolved that, the bill does pass. Per
order of the Assembly.
Wm. C. Crain, Speaker
State
of New York, In Senate March 25th, 1846. This bill having been read the
third time, two-thirds of all the members elected to the Senate voting
in favor thereof. Resolved, that the bill does pass. By order
of the Senate.
- Gardiner, President
Approved this 26th day of March 1846.
Silas Wright
State of New York, Secretary’s Office.
I have compared the preceding with an original law on file in this office
and do certify that the same is a correct Transcript therefrom and
of the whole of said original.
In testimony whereof I have herein affixed the seal of this office at
the City of Albany, the seventh day of April in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and forty six.
Arch. D. Campbell
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