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ceived and expended by them For the term of the preceding fiscal 

 year. 



5. That the said trustees shall be appointed or chosen for the 

 term of two years by the South Carolina Annual Conference, row 

 being part of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and until a 

 new election shall be made at the next regular meeting of said Con- 

 ference ; and said Annual Conference shall have power and author- 

 ity to fill all vacancies in said Board of Trustees which shall occur 

 by death or otherwise, which appointment so made shall continue 

 of force until the next regular meeting of said Conference. 



6. This Act shall be deemed and taken as a public act, and con- 

 tinue in force for the term of twenty-one years, and from thence un- 

 til the adjournment of the next session of the General Assembly 

 thereafter. 



In the Senate House, the 16th day of December, in the year of 

 our Lord, 1851, and in the seventy-sixth year of the sovereignty and 

 independence of the United States of America. 



KOBEItT F. W. Allston, 



President Senate. 

 James Simons, 



Speaker H. R. 



The trustees held their first meeting to organize 

 under the charter, at Newberry Court-house, Novem- 

 ber 24, 1853, when these resolutions were adopted: 



Resolved, That the faculty of the college consist of a President 

 who shall be professor of moral and mental science, a professor of 

 English literature, a professor of the Latin and Greek languages, a 

 professor of mathematics, and a professor of natural science. 



Resolved farther, That the services of the President, and the pro- 

 fessor of ancient languages, and the professor of mathematics, only 

 be put in requisition during the first scholastic term. 



The Eev. W. M. Wightman, D.D., was at the same 

 time elected President; the Kev. Albert M. Shipp, 

 A.M., Professor of English Literature; David Dun- 

 can, A.M., Professor of Ancient Languages; James 

 H. Carlisle, A.M., Professor of Mathematics; and 

 Warren DuPre, A.M., Professor of Natural Science. 



In November, 1854, the Committee on Education, 



