1782] REV. WILLIAM SMITH, D. D. 75 



professions to which persons are usually admitted in other Colleges or 

 Universities in America or Europe ; and it is hereby enacted that the 

 Principal, or in case of his death or absence, the Vice-Principal, and in 

 case of the death or absence of both, the senior Professor who may be 

 present, sha.ll make out and sign with his name. Diplomas or certificates 

 of the admission to such degree or degrees, which shall be sealed with 

 the public or greater seal of the said corporation or College, and deliv- 

 ered to the graduates as honorable and perpetual testimonials of such 

 admission ; which diplomas, if thought necessary for doing greater 

 honor to such graduates, shall also be signed with the names of the 

 different Professors, or as many of them as can conveniently sign the 

 same ; provided always, that no student or students within the said Col- 

 lege, shall ever be admitted to any such degree or degrees, nor have 

 their name inserted in any mandate for a degree, until such student or 

 students have been first duly examined and thought worthy of the same, 

 at a public examination of candidates, to be held one whole month pre- 

 vious to the day of commencement in the said College, by and in the 

 preference of the said Visitors and Governors, or of such quorum of 

 them, not less than seven, as the ordinances of the College may 

 authorize for that purpose, and in the presence of any other persons 

 choosing to attend the same ; and provided further, that no person or 

 persons, excepting the students belonging to the said Seminary, shall 

 ever be admitted to any honorary or other degree or degrees in the 

 same, unless thirteen of the Visitors and Governors (of whom the Presi- 

 dent shall be one) by a mandate under their privy seal, and signed by 

 the hands of the whole thirteen, to the Principal, Vice-Principal and 

 Professors directed, have signified their approbation and authority for 

 the particular admission of such person to said degree or degrees. 



And be it enacted. That the Visitors of Kent county school may 

 set aside and appropriate ten acres of the land belonging to the said 

 school, where they shall think most convenient, for erecting necessary 

 buildings for carrying on the said College, and laying out gardens and 

 grounds for the recreation ar.d refreshment of the youth, and other 

 suitable exercises. And the remainder of the grounds belonging to the 

 said Kent county school, may and shall be leased out by the Visitors of 

 the said school for the time being, and by the Visitors and Governors 

 of the said College, after the same shall be established, in leases for 

 lives, or ninety-nine years, or on any other leases that may be judged 

 most beneficial for advancing the cause of learning, and promoting the 

 said College agreeable to the original design for which the said Kent 

 county school was founded, and for which the said school-lands were 

 ■purchased. 



And be it enacted, That the ordinances which shall be from time 

 to time made by the Visitors and Governors of the said College, and 



