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that the seven additional Visitors and Governors (to make up and 

 perpetuate the number of twenty-four) may be chosen from this, or any 

 part of the adjacent States, if they are such persons as can reasonably 

 undertake to attend the quarterly visitations, and are thought capable, 

 by their particular learning, weight and character, to advance the 

 interest and reputation of the said Seminary. 



And be it enacted. That the said Visitors and Governors, and their 

 successors, by the same name, shall be able and capable in law, to pur- 

 chase, have and enjoy to them and their successors in fee, or for any 

 other lesser estate or estates, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, 

 pensions or other hereditaments, within this State, by tlie gift, grant, 

 bargain, sale, alienation, enfeoffment, release, confirmation or devise 

 of any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to make 

 the same ; and such lands, tenements, rents, annuities, pensions or 

 other hereditaments, or any lesser estates, rights or interests of or in the 

 same, (excepting the estate of the said Kent county school) at their 

 pleasure to grant, alien, sell and transfer, in such manner and form, as 

 they shall think meet and convenient for the furtherance of the said 

 College ; and also that they may take and receive any sum or sums of 

 money, and any kind, manner or portion of goods and chattels that 

 shall be given, sold or bequeathed to them, by any person or persons, 

 bodies politic or corporate, capable to make a gift, sale or bequest 

 thereof, and employ the same towards erecting, setting up and main- 

 taining the said College, in such manner as they shall judge most neces- 

 sary and convenient for the instruction, improvement and education of 

 youth, in the vernacular and learned languages, and generally in any 

 kind of literature, arts and sciences, which they shall think proper to be 

 taught for training up good, useful and accomplished men, for the ser- 

 vice of their country in Church and State; and youth of all religious 

 denominations and persuasions, shall be freely and liberally admitted to 

 equal privileges and advantages of education, and to all the literary 

 honors of the College, according to their merit, and the standing rules 

 of the Seminary, without requiring or enforcing any religious or civil 

 test whatsoever upon any student, scholar or member of the said Col- 

 lege, other than such oath of fidelity to the State as the laws thereof 

 may require of the Visitors, Governors, Masters, Professors and Teach- 

 ers in schools and seminaries of learning in general ; nor shall any 

 preference be given in the choice of any Visitor and Governor of the 

 said College, or of the Principal, Vice-Principal or any Professor or 

 Master, on account of his religious persuasion, but merely on account 

 of his literary and other necessary qualifications to fill the place for 

 which he is chosen. 



And de it enacted. That tlie said Visitors and Governors, and their 

 successors, by the name aforesaid, shall be able in law, to sue and be 



