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lions as that heretofore devised to them ; should it turn out that my 

 estate is not sufficient to make good all the legacies herein be- 

 queathed, I hereby declare it to be my will that any deficiency to 

 make good all legacies shall be taken from the fifty thousand dollars 

 which I have willed to be paid over to the trustees of the aforesaid 

 college. 



Charter of Wofford College. 



1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives now met 

 and sitting in General Assembly, and by authority of the same, That Dr. 

 W. M. Wightman, H. A. C, Walker, W. A. Gamewell, Charles 

 Belts, James Stacy, T. E. Walsh, H. H. Durant, A. M. Shipp, J. 

 Wofford Tucker, Simpson Bobo, Harvey Wofford, E. C Leitner, 

 and Clough Beard, and their successors in office, be and they are 

 hereby created and constituted a body politic and corporate by the 

 name and style of " The Trustees of Wofford College," a seminary 

 of learning situated in the town of Spartanburg, in the State of 

 South Carolina, and as such, and by the said name of the Trustees 

 of Wofford College, shall be capable and liable in law and equity, 

 to sue and be sued, to plead and to be impleaded, to use a common 

 seal, and to make such by-laws and rules for the regulation and gov- 

 ernment of said college as they may deem necessary ; provided, said 

 by-laws and rules be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of 

 this State, or of the United States. 



2. That the said Board of Trustees are and shall be authorized 

 to appoint such officers as they may think necessary and proper for 

 the organization and government of their own body, and also all the 

 officers, professors, tutors, and instructors of and in said college, and 

 to remove the same at pleasure, and to exercise such general con- 

 trol and supervision over the officers, instructors, affairs, and gov- 

 ernment of said college as they may deem advisable. 



3. That the said Board of Trustees shall have power and author- 

 ity to confer and award all such distinctions, honors, licenses, and 

 degrees as are usually conferred and awarded in colleges and uni- 

 versities of the United States. 



4. That the said trustees and their successors shall have and hold 

 all the estate, property, and funds now belonging to said college, and 

 all property, funds, money and donations, legacies and devises, which 

 may hereafter be granted, conveyed, bequeathed, and devised or 

 given to said college, in trust, nevertheless, for the use and ben- 

 efit of said college. And the said trustees shall make an annual 

 report to the South Carolina Annual Conference of all moneys re- 



