ACT OF INCORPORATION. 



(1863. Chap. 220). 



An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives^ in General 

 Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : 



SECTION i. Marshall P. Wilder, of Dorchester; Charles Corporators. 

 G. Davis, of Plymouth ; Nathan Durfee, of Fall River ; John 

 Brooks, of Princeton; Henry Colt, of Pittsfield; William S. 

 Southworth, of Lowell ; Charles C. Sewall, of Medfleld ; Paoli 

 Lathrop, of South Hadley ; Phinehas Stedman, of Chicopee ; 

 Allen W. Dodge, of Hamilton ; George Marston, of Barnstable ; 

 William B. Washburn, of Greenfield ; Henry L. Whiting, of Tis- 

 bury, John B. King, of Nantucket, their associates and successors, 

 are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of 1 [the 

 Trustees of] the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the leading Purpose . 

 object of which shall be, without excluding other scientific and 

 classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such 

 branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic 

 arts, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the 

 industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life ; 

 to be located as hereinafter provided ; and they and their succes- 

 sors, and such as shall be duly elected members of said corpora- 

 tion, shall be and remain a body corporate by that name forever. 

 And for the orderly conducting of the business of said corporation, 



. , 1111 i i r Election of 



the said trustees shall have power and authority from time to time, officers. 

 as occasion may require, to elect a president, vice-president, 

 secretary and treasurer, and such other officers of said corporation 

 as may be found necessary, and to declare the duties and tenures 

 of their respective offices ; 2 [and also to remove any trustee from 

 the same corporation, when, in their judgment, he shall be 

 rendered incapable, by age, or otherwise, of discharging the Tr^tees 1 . 

 duties of his office, or shall neglect or refuse to perform the same ; 

 and, whenever vacancies shall occur in the board of trustees, the board. * 

 legislature shall fill the same] : provided, nevertheless, that the num- Proviso 

 ber of members shall never be greater than fourteen, exclusive of 

 the governor of the Commonwealth, the secretary of the board of 

 education, the secretary of the board of agriculture, and the 

 president of the faculty, each of whom shall be, ex officio, a mem- 

 ber of said corporation. 



[1. Amended by Chap. 223, Sec. 1, Acts of 1864. 



The corporate name of " The Trustees of the Massachusetts Agri- Change of Cor- 

 cultural College" shall hereafter be "The Massachusetts Agricultural porate name. 

 College." 



