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Hon. John Brooks of Princeton was a farmer, enthusiastic in his" 

 calling, who Iteid long been a member of the Board of Agriculture. 

 He died before the college was organized. Paoli Lathi-op of South 

 Hadley, was also a successful farmer who died in 1872. Allen \V. 

 Dodge of Hamilton, who died in 1878, was long connected officially 

 with the Essex society,, and was treasurer of the comity: Rov. 



rent year shall, by lot, divide the elected members thereof into seven classes of two mi em * 

 bers 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 col- 

 lege, 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, emolu- 

 ments, responsibilities and tenures of their several offices. 



And the said corporation are further empowered to purchase or erect, and keep in re- 

 pair, 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 repugnant to the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, 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, never- 

 theless, that no corporate business shall be transacted at any meeting unless one-half, at 

 least, of the trustees ai'e 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, i-eal, per- 

 sonal 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 corporation shall be 

 capable of taking and holding in fee simple, or any less estate, by gift, grant, bequest, de- 

 vise, or otherwise, any lands, tenements, or other estate, real or personal : provided, that 

 the clear annual income of the same shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars. 



SEC. 4. The clear rents and profits of all the estate, real and personal, of which the 

 said corporation shall be seized and possessed, shall be appropriated to the uses of said 

 college in such manner as shall most effectually promote the objects declared in the first 

 section of this act, and as may be recommended from time to time by the said corpora- 

 tion, they conforming to the will of any donor or donors, in the application of any estate 

 which may be given, devised or bequeatned, for any particular object connected with the 

 college. 



SKC. 5. The legislature of this Commonwealth may grant any further powers to, or 

 alter, limit, annul or restrain, any of the powers vested by this act in the said corporation, 

 as shall be found necessary to promote the best interests of the said college ; and more 

 especially may appoint and establish overseers or visitors of the said college, with all 

 necessary powers for the better aid, preservation and government thereof. *[The said 

 corporation shall make an annual report of its condition, financial and otherwise, to the 

 legislature at the commencement of its session]. * 



*[7. Amended by Chap. 378, Acts of 7871. 



" The college shall furnish to the governor and council a copy of the annual report of its 

 operations." 



SEC. (5. The board of trustees shall determine the location of said college in some suit- 

 able place within the limits of this Commonwealth, and shall purchase, or obtain, by gift, 

 grant, or otherwise, in connection therewith, a tract of land containing at least one hun- 

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