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Of the incorporators since we last met here, Marshall P. Wilder, 

 the father of agricultural education in New England, the enthusias- 

 tic, generous, persistent, mild mannered, peace making, patriotic 

 gentleman, whose love of nature and nature's God enlarged his 



whole being, 



" Having won 



The bounds of man's appointed years, at last. 

 Life's blessings all enjoyed, life's labors done, 



Serenely to his final rest has passed. 

 And we are glad that he has lived thus long. 

 And glad that he has gone to his reward ; 

 Nor can we deem that Nature did him wrong 



Softly to disengage the vital cord. 

 For ere his hand grew palsied, and his eye 

 Dim with mists of age, it was his time to die." 



ACT OF INCORPORATION. (1863. Chap. 220) . AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TRUSTEES 

 OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 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 1. Marshall P. Wilder, of Dorchester; Charles G. Davis, of Plymouth; Na- 

 than Duii'ee, of Fall River; John Brooks, of Princeton ; Henry Colt, of Pittsfleld ; William 

 S. Southworth, of Lowell; Charles C. Sewall, of Medfield; Paoli Lathrop, of South Had- 

 ley; Phiueas Stedman, of Chicopee; Allen W. Dodge, of Hamilton; George Marston, of 

 Barnstable; William B. Washburn, of Greenfield; Henry L. Whiting, of Tisbury; John 

 B. King, of Nantucket, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body cor- 

 porate, by the name of *[the Trustees of] the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the 

 leading 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 agri- 

 culture 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 here- 

 inafter provided ; and they and their successors, and such as shall be duly elected mem- 

 bers of said corporation, shall be and remain a body corporate by that name forever. 

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

 have power and authority from time to time, 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; 

 t[and also to remove any trustee fi'om the same corporation, when, in their judgment, he 

 shall be rendered incapable, by age, or otherwise, of discharging the duties of his office, 

 or shall neglect or refuse to perform the same; and, whenever vacancies shall occur in 

 the board of trustees, the legislature shall fill the same] : provided, nevertheless, that the 

 number 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 member 

 of said corporation. 

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



The corporate name of "The Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College " shall 

 hereafter be "The Massachusetts Agricultural College/' 



f[2. Amended by Chap. 50, 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 i>e hereafter exercised by the governor with the 

 advice and consent of the council, instead of said board; and said board during the cur. 



