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Board of Trustees, with their certificate of the number of votes 

 cast, and for whom ; whereupon the said Board shall determine who 

 have received the highest number of votes cast, and who are 

 thereby elected. 



SEC. 6. That on the second Thursday of June, after the pas- 

 sage of this act, the Board of Trustees who are hereby appointed, 

 shall meet in Harrisburg, and proceed to the organization of the 

 institution, and selection of the most eligible site within the Com- 

 monwealth of Pennsylvania for its location, where they shall pur- 

 chase or obtain by gift, grant or otherwise, a tract of land con- 

 taining at least two hundred acres, and not exceeding two thousand 

 acres, upon which they shall procure such improvements and 

 alterations to be made, as will make it an Institution properly 

 adapted to the instruction of youth, in the art of farming, accord- 

 ing to the meaning and design of this act; they shall select and 

 choose a Principal for the said Institution, who with such scientific 

 attainment and capacity to teach as the Board shall deem necessary, 

 shall be a good practical farmer ; he with such other persons as shall 

 from time to time be employed as teachers, shall compose the faculty, 

 under whose control the immediate management of the Institution, 

 and the instruction of all the youth committed to its care, shall be 

 subject, however, to the revision and all orders of the Board of 

 Trustees ; there shall be a quarterly meeting of the Board of Trus- 

 tees at the Institution, and as much oftener as shall be necessary, 

 and as they shall determine ; the Board shall have power to pass all 

 such By-Laws, ordinances and rules as the good government of 

 the Institution shall require, and therein to prescribe what shall 

 be taught to, and what labor performed by the pupils, and gene- 

 rally to do and perform all such administrative acts as are usually 

 performed by and with the appropriate duty of a Board of Trus- 

 tees, and shall, by a Secretary of their appointment, keep a minute 

 of the proceedings and action of the Board. 



SEC. 7. That it snail be the duty of the Board of Trustees, as 

 soon and as often as the exigencies of the Institution shall require, 

 in addition to the Principal, to employ such other professors, teach- 

 ers or tutors, as shall be qualified to impart to pupils under their 

 charge, a knowledge of the English language, Grammar, Geogra- 

 phy, History, Mathematics, Chemistry, and such other branches 

 of the natural and exact sciences, as will conduce to the proper 

 education of a Farmer; the pupils shall themselves, at such proper 

 times and seasons as shall be prescribed by the Board of Trustees, 

 perform all the labor necessary in the cultivation of the Farm, 

 and shall thus be instructed and taught all things necessary to be 

 known by a Farmer, it being the design and intention of this act 

 to establish an Institution in which youth may be educated, so as to 

 fit them for the occupation of a Farmer. 



