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COLGATE UNIVERSITY

AMENDMENT TO CHARTER, 1986  

THIS INSTRUMENT WITNESSETH that the Regents of the University of the State of New York have amended the charter of Colgate University, located at Hamilton, county of Madison, state of New York, which was created by Special Act of the Legislature on March 26, 1846, by Chapter 40 of the laws of 1845, under the name Madison University, such charter having been amended by action of the Board of Regents on March 13, 1890, changing the name of the corporation to Colgate University, by increasing the authorized maximum number of trustees to thirty-one. 

Granted January 22, 1986, by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York for and on behalf of the State Education Department, and executed under the seal of said University, and record as 18,954. 

Signed by the Chancellor and by the President of the University and Commissioner of Education