[2. Amended by Chap. 5O, Resolves of 1884. 



* * * the power of* appointment of members of said board of 

 trustees, and the powers of removal defined in section one of chapter 

 two hundred and twenty, of the acts of eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 three, shall be hereafter exercised by the governor with the advice and 

 consent of the council, instead of said board ; and said board during 

 the current year shall, by lot, divide the elected members thereof into 

 seven classes of two members each, of whom one class shall vacate 

 their office January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and one 

 class on the first day of January in each year thereafter; and such 

 action shall be certified by the board to the governor and council ; 

 and appointments to fill the vacancies so created shall be made for the 

 term of seven years. 



SEC. 2. The said corporation shall have full power and authority 

 to determine at what times and places their meetings shall be 

 holden, and the manner of notifying the trustees to convene at 

 such meetings ; and also, from time to time, to elect a president 

 of said college, and such professors, tutors, instructors and other 

 officers of said college as they shall judge most for the interest 

 thereof, and to determine the duties, salaries, emoluments, respon- 

 sibilities and tenures of their several offices. 



And the said corporation are further empowered to purchase 

 or erect, and keep in repair, such houses and other buildings as 

 they shall judge necessary for the said college ; and also, to make 

 and ordain as occasion may require, reasonable rules, orders and 

 by-laws not repungent to the constitution and laws of this Com- 

 monwealth, with reasonable penalties, for the good government of 

 the said college and for the regulation of their own body, and also 

 to determine and regulate the course of instruction in said college, 

 and to confer such appropriate degrees as they may determine and 

 prescribe : provided, nevertheless, that no corporate business shall 

 be transacted at any meeting unless one-half, at least, of the trus- 

 tees are present. 



SEC. 3. The said corporation may have a common seal, 

 which they may alter or renew at their pleasure, and all deeds 

 sealed with the seal of said corporation, and signed by their order, 

 shall, when made in their corporate name, be considered in law as 

 the deeds of said corporation ; and said corporation may sue and 

 be sued in all actions, real, personal or mixed, and may prosecute 

 the same to final judgment and execution, by the name of the 

 Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College ; and said cor- 

 poration shall be capable of taking and holding in fee simple, or 

 any less estate, by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise, any 

 lands, tenements, or other estate, real or personal : provided, that 

 the clear annual income of the same shall net exceed thirty thousand 

 dollars. 



Rents and prof- SEC. 4- The clear rents and profits of all the estate, real and 



its of estate ; personal, of which the said corporation shall be seized and pos- 



how appro. j i n i_ i r i n ' i 



priated. sessed, shall be appropriated to the uses of said college in such 



Trustees 

 appointed and 

 removed by the 

 governor and 

 council. 



Elected mem- 

 bers to be divi- 

 ded into seven 

 classes, by lot. 



Appointments 

 to fill vacancies 

 to be for term of 

 seven years. 



Meetings. 



Officers of 

 college. 



Real estate. 



By-laws. 



Instruction. 



Proviso. 



Seal. 



Corporation 

 may sue and 

 be sued. 



May hold estate 

 given or be- 

 queathed. 



Proviso. 



