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all vacancies to the governor and council ; vacancies occur- 

 ring in any of the foregoing modes, or by the resignation or 

 decease of any trustee, shall be filled in the following man- 

 ner : The first vacancy that shall occur, shall be filled by the 

 legislature at the next session thereafter by joint ballot of the 

 two branches ; the second vacancy shall be filled by the trus- 

 tees at their next meeting ; and all succeeding vacancies shall 

 be filled in like manner, alternately by the legislature and the 

 trustees. 



Sec. 5. The trustees, in their corporate capacity, may take 

 and hold in addition to the income, which they shall receive, 

 through the state from the endowment made by congress, such 

 other real and personal property as may be granted or devised 

 to them for the purpose of promoting the objects of this act. 

 But they shall not be entitled to receive any benefactions 

 made to them upon conditions inconsistent with the act of 

 congress aforesaid, or for purposes difierent from what is 

 therein prescribed. 



Sec. 6. The governor and council shall take measures, as 

 soon as may be advantageously done after the passage of this 

 act, to sell the land scrip received by this state under the act 

 of congress, and to invest the same as required by the fourth 

 section of said act. The securities shall be kept by the state 

 treasurer, and he shall report annually to the legislature the 

 amount and condition of the investments, and of the income 

 of the same. He shall from time to time, as the income shall 

 accrue, pay over the same to the treasurer of the college. 



Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the trustees, as soon as may 

 be, after their organization, to procure a tract of land suitable 

 as a site for the establishment of the college. If no other 

 provision shall be made therefor, there shall be placed at the 

 disposal of the trustees for this purpose, such proportion as 

 the governor and council may deem suitable, of that part of 

 the fund, which is authorized by the fifth section of the act of 

 congress to be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or 

 experimental farms. 



