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McAllister, of the County of Centre, R. C. Walker, of the County 

 of Allegheny, James Miles, of the County of Erie, John Strohm, 

 of the County of Lancaster, A. 0. Hiester, of the County of Dau- 

 phin, William Jessup, of the County of Susquehanna, and Frede- 

 rick Watts, of the County of Cumberland, shall constitute the first 

 Board of Trustees; which said Trustees, and their successors in 

 office, are hereby erected and declared to be a body politic and cor- 

 porate in law, with perpetual succession, by the name, style and 

 title of the Farmers High School of Pennsylvania ; by which name 

 and title the said Trustees, and their successors, shall be able and 

 capable in law to take by gift, grant, sale or conveyance, by be- 

 quest, devise or otherwise, any estate in any lands, tenements and 

 hereditaments, goods, chattels or effects, and at pleasure to alien 

 or otherwise dispose of the same to and for the uses and purposes 

 of the said Institution: Provided, however, That the annual in- 

 come of the said estate, so held, shall at no time exceed twenty-five 

 thousand dollars; and the said Corporation shall by the same 

 name, have power to sue and be sued, and generally to do and 

 transact all and every business touching or concerning the premi- 

 ses, or which shall be necessarily incidental thereto, and to hold, 

 enjoy and exercise all such powers, authorities and jurisdiction as 

 are customary in the Colleges within this Commonwealth. 



SEC. 4. That the Trustees shall cause to be made a seal, with 

 such device as they may think proper, and by and with which all 

 the deeds and diplomas, certificates and acts of the Institution shall 

 be authenticated, and they may, at their pleasure, alter the same. 



SEC. 5. That at the first meeting of the Board of Trustees, the 

 nine named who are not ex-officio members, shall by themselves 

 and by lot, be divided into three classes, of three each, numbered 

 one, two and three. The appointment hereby made of class number 

 one, shall terminate on the first Monday of October, one thousand 

 eight hundred and fifty-six, number two on the first Monday of 

 October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and number 

 three on the first Monday of October, one thousand eight hundred 

 and fifty-eight; and upon the termination of the office of such 

 Directors, to wit : on the first Monday of October in every year, 

 an election shall be held at the Institution to supply their place, 

 and such election shall be determined by the votes of the mem- 

 bers of the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania State Agri- 

 cultural Society, and the votes of three representatives duly chosen 

 by each County Agricultural Society in this Commonwealth, which 

 shall have been organized at least three months preceding the 

 time of election ; and it shall be the duty of the u said Board of 

 Trustees to appoint two of their number as judges, to hold the said 

 election, to receive and count the votes, and return the same to the 



