UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AS AFFECTED BY CONGRESSIONAL AND LEGISLATIVE ACTS, CONST TIONAL PROVISIONS, JUDICIAL DECISIONS, AND LEGAL OPINIONS ORGANIZATION AND AIMS AS REFLECTED IN ITS BY-LAWS gen tile 1. Sopy (Reprice) UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AS AFFECTED BY CONGRESSIONAL AND LEGISLATIVI ACTS, CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS, JUDICIAL DECIS ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY TERRITORIAL PERIOD Extract from "An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio" Preamble-Fifth Paragraph* *In the following compilation original sources have been consulted, when accessible, and their typography followed.-Ed. "The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district, such laws of the original states, criminal and civil, as may be necessary, and best suited to the circumstances of the district, and report them to Congress, from time to time, which laws shall be in force in the district until the organization of the general assembly therein, unless disapproved of by Congress; but afterwards the legislature shall have authority to alter them as they shall think fit. * * * * * * NORTH-WEST IONS, AND LEGAL Article the Third. Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." **** (July 13, 1787). Cf. Laws of the Terr. of Mich., Detroit, 1820, p. 3. . August 26, 1817. An act to establish the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania. Be it enacted by the Governor and the Judges of the Territory of Michigan, That there shall be in the said Territory CATHOLEPISTE- |