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estates shall amount to six thousand pounds as aforesaid, and all bar- 

 gains and purchases to be made by the said corporation, which may 

 increase the yearly value of ,said estate, above or beyond the sum 

 aforesaid, shall be absolutely void and of none effect. 



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

 successors, shall meet at least four times in every year, in stated quar- 

 terly meetings, to be appointed by their own ordinances, and at such 

 other times as by their said ordinances they may direct, in order to 

 examine the progress of the students and scholars in literature, to hear 

 and determine on all complaints and appeals, and upon all matters 

 touching the discipline of the Seminary, and the good and wholesome 

 execution of their ordinances ; in all which examinations, meetings and 

 determinations, such number of the said Visitors and Governors, duly 

 met, (provided they be not less than seven) shall be a quorum, as the 

 fundamental ordinances at first, or any time afterwards duly enacted by 

 a majority of the whole Visitors, shall fix and determine. 



And be it enacted, That a majority of the said Visitors and Gov- 

 ernors for the time being, when duly assembled at any quarterly, or 

 other meeting, upon due notice given to the whole body of Visitors and 

 Governors, shall have full power and authority to make fundamental 

 ordinances for the government of the said College, and the instruction 

 of the youth as aforesaid, and by these ordinances to appoint such a 

 number of their own body not less than seven, as they may think proper 

 to be a quorum for transacting all general and necessary business of the 

 said Seminary, and making temporary rules for the government of the 

 same ; and also by the said fundamental ordinances, to delegate to the 

 Principal, Vice-Principal and Professors, such powers and authorities as 

 they may think best for the standing government of the said Seminary, 

 and the execution of the ordinances and rules of the same ; provided 

 always, that they be not repugnant to the form of government, or any 

 law of this State. 



And for animating and encouraging the students of the said College 

 to a laudable diligence, industry and progress in useful literature and 

 science, be it enacted, that the said Visitors and Governors, and their 

 successors, shall by a written mandate, under their privy seal, and the 

 hand of some one of the Visitors and Governors to be chosen annually 

 as their President, according to the ordinance to be made for that pur- 

 pose, have full power and authority to direct the Principal, Vice-Princi- 

 pal and Professors, to hold public commencements, either on stated 

 annual days, or occasionally as the future ordinances of the said Semi- 

 nary may direct ; and at such commencements to admit any of the 

 students in the said College, or any other persons meriting the same 

 (whose names shall be severally inserted in the said mandate) to any 

 degree or degrees in any of the faculties, arts and sciences, and liberal 



