Delaware College re-incorporated for 20 years Preamble. Del. College adopted as the institution to be DELAWARE COLLEGE. CHAP. 43. ADDITIONAL ACTS. CHAPTER 625, VOL. 18, LAWS OF DELAWARE. AN ACT TO RE-INCORPORATE DELAWARE COLLEGE. That Delaware College, at Newark, Delaware, re-incorporated by act of February 17th, 1869, for a period of twenty years from February 10, A. D. 1871, be and the same is hereby re-incorporated as a college, with the same duties, privileges and prerogatives as now legally enjoyed and exercised by that institution, for a further period of twenty years from and after the 10th day of February, A. D. 1889. Passed at Dover, February 21, 1889. CHAPTER 137, VOL. 13, LAWS OF DELAWARE. AN ACT ESTABLISHING A COLLEGE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND ME- Whereas the legislature of this State, by a recent act, accepted the provisions of an act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, entitled, "An act donating public land to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts; AND WHEREAS the said act of Congress renders it the duty of the State to provide the buildings, grounds and appliances necessary to carry out the objects of said act; AND WHEREAS the board of trustees of Delaware College have proposed to convey to the State of Delaware a joint and equal interest in the grounds, buildings, libraries, apparatus and vested fund of said college property, upon the condition that the State shall vest the income to be derived from the sale of the said lands in a board of trustees, not more than one half of whom shall be the representatives of the State, and the remainder the representatives of the present board, for the purpose of establishing at Newark, in connection with said college, an institution which shall meet the requirements of the act of Congress, and extend to the people of our State the benefits of its provisions. SECTION 1. That the proposition of the board of trustees of Delaware College be and the same is hereby accepted, and that Delaware College is adopted and established provided by this as the institution to be provided by the State of Delaware, in accordance with the proance with the act visions of the act of Congress, approved, July 2, 1862, entitled, “An act donating pubof Congress of lic lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the beneJuly 2, 1862. fit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Acts." State in accord Scrip or land warrants author ized to be sold. Proceeds of sale to be invested. Agents. Expenses. SEC. 2. That the State Treasurer, in conjunction with the Governor of the State, and the president of the board of trustees of Delaware College, is hereby authorized and required to sell and assign upon such terms and conditions as they may deem best for the interest of the State of Delaware, the whole or any part of the scrip or land warrants issued or to be issued to the State by virtue of said act of Congress. SEC. 3. That the proceeds of the sale or sales aforesaid shall be invested by the said treasurer in interest bearing bonds of this State or of United States, at his discretion, the principle of which bonds shall be forever held sacred for the purposes contemplated in the act of Congress aforesaid, and shall not be transferrable except by a special act of the legislature. SEC. 4. That the State Treasurer may perform and discharge any of the acts, trusts or duties authorized, directed, or conferred herein by any agent or agents by him selected and appointed, and with the consent and advice of the Governor of the State. All costs and expenses incurred in selling or assigning the said land-script, or investing DELAWARE COLLEGE. CHAP. 43. ADDITIONAL ACTS. the proceeds thereof, shall be allowed and paid out of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 5. The State Treasurer shall, semi-annually, receive and pay over the interest Interest on of said bonds to the treasurer of the board of trustees of Delaware College, for the investments. purposes and on the conditions hereinafter mentioned. SEC. 6. That the board of trustees of Delaware College shall devote said interest to To what purthe maintenance of such course or courses of instruction in said college as shall carry est shall be poses said interout the intent of the act of Congress aforesaid, and shall provide for the gratuitous in- devoted. struction of one pupil form each hundred in the State, who shall be annually nominated to be pupils of said college, in such manner as the legislature may prescribe. Said pupils, so nominated and received, shall be residents of this State, and shall be admitted into said college upon the same terms, and subject to the same rules and discipline which shall apply to all other pupils of said college, with the single exception, that they shall not be required to pay anything for their instruction. SEC. 7. Said board of trustees shall, annually, on or before the first day of February, Annual report of Trustees. in each and every year, make up and distribute the reports required by the fourth paragraph of the fifth section of said act of Congress. SEC. 8. That the Governor be and is hereby authorized to appoint five trustees from Governor to each county of the State, to be members of the Board of Trustees of Delaware College Trustees from appoint five on behalf of the State, and to fill all vacancies which may arise in such appointments, each county. occasioned by death, resignation or otherwise, and that the present Board of Trustees of Delaware College shall fill up the remaining vacancies in said Board, in the manner Vacancies. and to the number prescribed in the charter of Delaware College, as well as to fill any vacancies which may herefter arise in their number, and the joint Board of Trustees, thus reorganized, shall have the entire control and management of said institution, subject to the provisions of its charter, and the terms of the act: Provided, that said in- Proviso, stitution shall never be managed or conducted in the interests of any party, sect, or denomination. report amend SEC. 9. That the Board of Trustees of Delaware College shall report such amend- Trustees to ments to this act, or such further acts or laws, as they may deem necessary and proper ments. to carry out the objects contemplated by this act. Passed at Dover, March 14, 1867. CHAPTER 420, VOL. 13, LAWS OF DELAWARE. AN ACT SUPPLEMENTARY TO AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT ESTAB- students from each county. SECTION 1. That the number of students from each county at any time shall not exceed [ten from each county]. Each hundred in each county shall have an equal num- Chap. 54, vol. 14. ber of the appointees to the college established by the act entitled "An act establish- Number of ing a College for Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in this State," passed at Dover, March 14, 1867, and in making the nominations of the pupils under the act aforesaid hereafter, the hundred as herein named shall always be construed to mean such terri- Number from tory as was embraced within the limits of the respective hundreds in each county at the each hundred. time the counties were each embraced within limits of ten hundreds only. SEC. 2. They shall be nominated in this manner : Each member of the General Students; how Assembly for the time being, whether during a session or in vacation as occasion may require, shall nominate the students to which his or their hun * * * nominated. When made. Hundreds having no resident member. Age, Script to be transferred to State Treasurer. State Treasurer to be accountable Said funds to be Bank. COLLEGE FOR COLORED STUDENTS. CHAP. 44. CHAP. 119, VOL. 19. dred shall be entitled, and nominations from hundreds within the meaning of this act SEC. 3. No person shall be nominated on [the] part of the State as a student of CHAPTER 55, VOL. 14, LAWS OF DELAWARE. A SUPPLEMENT TO "AN ACT ESTABLISHING A COLLEGE FOR AGRI- SECTION 1. That William J. Clarke, late State Treasurer and Trustee of the funds arising from the sale of the land scrip mentioned in the act to which this is a supplement, be and he is hereby directed to transfer and deliver to the State Treasurer all the funds, bonds, and other securities, as well as any scrip yet in his hands or under his control, if any, taking his receipt therefor; and the State Treasurer shall, when received by him, hold and be accountable for them in his official capacity. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the State Treasurer in addition to the other duties kept in Farmer's imposed by the act to which this is a supplement, to keep said funds, bonds, and other securities and scrip in the Farmers' Bank, at Dover, and to keep a separate and distinct account of said trust funds, and to make a full and detailed report of the condiReport to Trus- tion thereof to the Trustees of Delaware College on the first day of July in each year, tees of Delaware College. and also to the Legislature at each biennial session. Governor to appoint Board of Trustees of Delaware Col lege for colored students. Chap. 635, vol. 19. CHAPTER XLIV. COLLEGE FOR COLORED STUDENTS. CHAPTER 119, VOL. 19, LAWS OF DELAWARE. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A COLLEGE FOR THE EDU- SECTION 1. The Governor of the State, on the first Tuesday in June, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (1891), and every four years thereafter, shall appoint and commission two respectable and well qualified persons from each county, who shall constitute the board of trustees for the [State] College for Colored Students. The said trustees shall hold their office for a period of four years or until their successors shall COLLEGE FOR COLORED STUDENTS. CHAP. 44. CHAP. 119, VOL. 19. in like manner be appointed. In case of a vacancy by death, resignation or otherwise, Vacancies, the Governor shall appoint for the unexpired term. how filled. SEC. 2. The trustees named in this act shall be and are hereby ordained and declared Corporate to be a body corporate by the name and style of "The Trustees of [the State] College powers, etc. Chap. 635, vol.19. for Colored Students," with all the powers and franchises incident to such an institution, including the capacity to take and hold real and personal estate by deed, devise, bequest, gift, grant, or otherwise, and the same to alien, sell, transfer and dispose of as occasion may require, and the proceeds thereof to re-invest in other property, funds or securities for the benefit of said college, and in accordance with the spirit and purpose of this act. SEC. 3. The purpose and object of said college shall be to impart instruction in agri- Object. culture, the mechanic arts, the English language, the various branches of mathematical, What to be physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their application in taught. the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life, but other scientific and classical studies may be taught, and a normal school for the preparation of teachers may be connected with the college under such regulations. rules and regulations as the trustees may adopt. Rules and of Trustees. SEC. 4. The said board of trustees shall have the superintendence of said college, Powers of Board with power to appoint and remove the faculty and other officers and agents of the college and of their own body; to fill vacancies and to make by-laws as well for the government of the college as their own government; and to conduct all the concerns of the institution. [Four] members of the board shall constitute a quorum, and meetings of the board shall be held as the by-laws may prescribe; provided that said by-laws shall not By-laws. conflict with the Constitution or laws of the United States or of this State. Chap. 635,vol.19. SEC. 5. The faculty of the college, composed of the teachers whom the trustees shall Faculty. employ, one of whom shall be president of the college and ex-officio a member of the board of trustees, shall have the care, government and instruction of the students, subject, however, to the by-laws. They shall have authority, with the approbation of the board of trustees to confer degrees and grant diplomas. SEC. 6. Devises, bequests, grants and gifts to this corporation shall not be avoided Devises, be by any misnomer, if the description can be understood with reasonable certainty. quests, gifts, etc. SEC. 7. That the sum of eight thousand dollars is hereby appropriated from the $8,000 for purState treasury to the said "The Trustees of the State College for Colored Students," chasing land and erecting to be used primarily for the purchase of land and for the erection, preservation, repair buildings. and equipment of any building or buildings which said trustees shall hereafter acquire for the purposes of said college, and if the whole of said sum should not be required for the purchase of land and for the erection, preservation, or repair of buildings, the remainder of said sum shall be used for the maintenance and support of said institution. Said sum shall be paid by the State Treasurer to the treasurer of said trustees, upon To whom paid, his giving bond and security as hereinafter provided after notice received under the and when. hand of the president and secretary of the said trustees that said body is fully organized and prepared to carry out the purposes of this act. SEC. 8. That the State Treasurer is hereby directed and required to pay annually to Payment by to the treasurer of the said "Trustees of the State College for Colored Students," State Treasurer. twenty per centum or one-fifth part of the sum of money which he, the said State treasurer, has already received and hereafter shall receive annually by virtue of an act of Congress, approved August 30, 1890, entitled "An act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges Moneys, how used, etc. REFORM SCHOOLS. CHAP. 45. CHAP. 495, VOL. 17. for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862. SEC. 9. That the moneys received by said trustees as provided in the foregoing section shall be used by said trustees for the support and maintenance of said college, and the treasurer of said trustees, before receiving any money from said State Treasurer, shall Bond of Treas- give bond with good and sufficient security to the State of Delawaïe in the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful application of all the moneys received. Said bond shall be approved by said trustees and shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. urer of Trustees. Passed at Dover, May 15, 1891. Corporators. CHAPTER XLV. REFORM SCHOOLS. CHAPTER 495, VOL. 17, LAWS OF DELAWARE. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE FERRIS REFORM* SCHOOL. SECTION 1. That Caleb Harlan, M. D., John H. Adams, Lewis P. Bush, M. D., Thomas F. Bayard, Edward Bringhurst, Edward Betts, James Bradford, John G. Baker, Sewell C. Biggs, Thomas Bird, Edward T. Bellah, Peter N. Brennan, William N. Canby, George S. Capelle, Swithin Chandler, M. D., S. M. Curtis, Joseph L. Carpenter, jr., Henry DuPont, James A. Draper, M. D., Ziba Ferris, Henry Ferris, Allen Gawthrop, J. Taylor Gause, Richard P. Gibbons, George Gray, Anthony Higgins, David W. Harlan, Joshua T. Heald, Washington Jones, Job H. Jackson, Charles B. Lore, George G. Lobdell, William C. Lodge, Preston Lea, Samuel N. Pusey, J. Parke Postles, William T. Porter, George Richardson, Henry C. Robinson, William C. Spruance, Lewis Thompson, Joseph Tatnall, James Ware, Stansbury J. Willey, Leonard E. Wales, C. Wesley Weldon, Alfred D. Warner, Joseph H. Watson, and all who shall contribute to the support of the said corporation, as hereinafter provided, be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic in law, under the name and title of The Ferris Reform School, and by that name shall have succession for the period of twenty years, and they shall be and are hereby made able and capable in Property held. law, to have, take, purchase, receive, possess and retain to them and their successors, for the use and lawful objects of the corporation, any estate, real or personal, (provided that the annual income of the entire estate held shall not exceed fifteen thousand Annual income, dollars,) and the same to sell, grant, demise, alien or dispose of, to make contracts relative to the objects of this incorporation, to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded in all courts of law and equity, to have a common seal, and the same to alter at pleasure, to establish by-laws and rules for the regulation of said corporation, (provided the same be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States or of this State,) and generally to have the privileges and franchises incident to a corporation or body politic. Title. Proviso. Limit. By-laws. Qualification of members. SEC. 2. Every person who shall pay to the said corporation the sum of forty dollars, or eight dollars annually for the term of six years, shall become a member thereof dur*NOTE.-By Chap. 546, vol, 18, name changed to "Ferris Industrial School," |