a a catholepistemiad, or university, denominated the catholepistemiad or university of Michigania. The catholepistemiad or university of Michigania shall be composed of thirteen didariim or professorships: first a didaria or professorship of catholepistemia, or universal science, the didactor or professor of which shall be president of the institution; second, a didaria or professorship of anthropoglossica or literature, embracing all the epistemim or sciences relative to language; third, a didaria or professorship of mathematica or mathematics; fourth, a didaria or professorship of physiognostica or natural history; fifth, a didaxia or professorship of physiosophica or natural philosophy; sixth, a didaria or professorship of astronomia or astronomy; seventh, didaria or professorship of chymia or chemistry; eighth, a didaxia or professorship of iatuca [iatrica] or medical sciences; ninth, a didaria or professorship of aeconomia or economical sciences; tenth, a didaria or professorship of ethica or ethical sciences; eleventh, a didaria or professorship of polemitactica or military sciences; twelfth, a didaria or professorship of diegetica or historical sciences, and thirteenth, a didaria or professorship of ennoeica or intellectual sciences, embracing all the epistemiim or sciences relative to the minds of animals, to the human mind, to spiritual existence, to the Deity, and to religion; the didactor or professor of which shall be vice-president of the institution. The didactors or professors shall be appointed and commissioned by the Governor. There shall be paid from the treasury of Michigan, in quarterly payments, to the president of the institution, and to each didactor or professor, an annual salary, to be from time to time ascertained by law. More than one didaria or professorship may be conferred upon the same person. THE PRESIDENT AND PROFESSORS The president and didactors or professors, or a majority of them assembled, shall have THE GOVERNING power to regulate all the concerns of the institution, to enact laws for that purpose, to sue, to be sued, to acquire, to hold and to alien property, real, mixed and personal, to make, to use and to alter a seal, to establish colleges, academies, schools, BODY. libraries, musæums, athenæums, botanic gardens, laboratories, and other useful literary and scientific institutions, consonant to the laws of the United States of America, and of Michigan, and to appoint officers, instructors and instructri (sic) in, among and throughout the various counties, cities, towns, townships, and other geographical divisions of Michigan. Their name and style as a corporation shall be "The Catholepistemiad or University of Michigania." To every subordinate instructor and instructrix appointed by the catholepistemiad or university there shall be paid from the treasury of Michigan, in quarterly payments, an annual salary, to be from time to time ascertained by law. The existing public taxes are hereby increased fifteen per cent. ; and from the proceeds of the present and all future public taxes, fifteen per cent. are appropriated for the benefit of the catholepistemiad or university. The Treasurer of Michigan shall keep a separate account of the university fund. The catholepistemiad or university may prepare and draw four successive lotteries, deducting from the prizes in the same fifteen per cent. for the benefit of the institution. The proceeds of the preceding sources of revenue, and of all subsequent, shall be applied, in the first instance, to the acquisition of suitable lands and buildings, and books, libraries and apparatus, and afterwards to such purposes as shall be from time to time by law directed. The honorarium for a course of lectures shall not exceed fifteen dollars; for classical instruction, ten dollars a quarter, and for ordinary instruction, six dollars a quarter. If the judges of the court of any county, or a majority of them, shall certify that the parent or guardian of any person has not adequate means to defray the expense of suitable instruction, and that the same ought to be a public charge, the honorarium shall be paid from the treasury of Michigan. An annual report of the state, concerns, and transactions of the institution shall be laid before the legislative power for the time being. This law, or any part of it, may be repealed by the legislative power for the time being. Made, adopted, and published from the laws of seven of the original States, to-wit: the States of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, so far as necessary and suitable to the circum stances of Michigan, at Detroit, on Tuesday, the 26th day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. WILLIAM WOODBRIDGE, Secretary of Michigan, and at present Acting Governor thereof A. B. WOODWARD, Presiding Judge of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Michigan JOHN GRIFFIN, One of the Judges of the Territory of Michigan. (Terr. L., II, p. 104.) Rev. John Monteith was the first President of the Catholepistemiad. (Cf. Act of Dec. 31, 1817, Terr. L., I, p. 127.) MICHIGAN TERRITORY. 1805-1837. August 26, 1817 to February 8, 1821: Several additional Acts on behalf of the University: to "ascertain" the annual salaries of the president ($25), vice-president ($18.75), professors ($12.50 each), instructors and instructrixes ($25 each), "for the time being." Making appropriations for salaries, construction of buildings, purchase of land, and enclosure of buildings (including salary of president for three years, 1818 to 1820 inclusive, $300), not exceeding $1,016.25. (Terr. L., II, pp. 106-109, 117.) April 30, 1821. An Act for the establishment of a University (in Detroit; repealing the Act of August 26, 1817, to establish a SUCCESSOR OF Catholepistemiad). UNIVERSITY (IN DETROIT) MADE THE LEGAL THE CATHOLEP ISTEMIAD. TRUSTEES THE Sec. I. Be it enacted by the Governor and Judges of the Territory of Michigan, That there shall be established in the city of Detroit an University, for the purpose of educating youth, the style, name and title whereof shall be, and are hereby declared to be, as is hereinafter mentioned and defined, that is to say, the said University shall be under the management, direction and government of twenty-one trustees, of whom the governor of the territory, for the time being, shall always, by virtue of his office, be one; and the governor and John Biddle, Nicholas Bolvin, Daniel Leroy, Christian Clemens, William H. Puthuff, John Anderson, John Hunt, Charles Larned, Gabriel Richard, John R. Williams, Solomon Sibley, John Monteith, Henry I. Hunt, John L. Leib, Peter J. Desnoyers, Austin E. Wing, William Woodbridge, Benjamin Stead, Philip Lecuyer, William Brown, shall be and are hereby appointed the first trustees, and they and all further trustees shall continue in place during the pleasure of the legislature, and all vacancies which may occur, shall, from time to time, be supplied by the legislature. Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That the said trustees and their successors shall, forever hereafter be, and they are hereby established and declared to be a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession in deed and in law, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, by the name, style and title of "The Trustees of the University of Michigan," by which name and title, they and their successors shall be capable at law and in equity, of suing and being sued, holding property, real and personal, and mixed, of buying and selling, and otherwise lawfully disposing of property; and shall have power to make and use a common seal, and to alter the same at their pleasure: And further, any eleven of the said trustees shall be a quorum for the purpose of disposing of property and the fixing of compensations; and any seven of said trustees shall be a quorum for all other purposes. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said trustees, from time to time, to apply such part of their estate and funds, in such manner as they may think most conducive to the promotion of literature and the advancement of useful knowledge within this territory: Provided always, That when grants shall be made to them for certain uses and purposes therein expressed and declared, the same shall not be applied, either in whole or in part, to any other uses, without the consent of the grantor. Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation. shall appoint by ballot, a treasurer and secretary, to continue in office during the pleasure of the corporation; that the treasurer shall give bond in such sum, and with such securities for the faithful execution of the duties of his office, as the said corporation may direct, and shall keep fair and true accounts of all moneys by him received and paid out; and that the secretary shall keep a fair journal of the meetings and proceedings of the corporation, in which the yeas and nays on all questions shall be entered, if required by two of the trustees present; and to all the books and papers of the corporation every trustee shall always have access, and be permitted to take copies of them. POWER TO COLLEGES, ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS. Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the said trustees may, from time to time, establish such colleges, academies and schools, depending upon the said University, as they may think proper, and as the funds of the (Cf. infra, p. 12) corporation will permit; and it shall be the duty of the said trustees to visit and inspect such colleges, academies and schools, to examine into the state and system of education and discipline therein, and to make a yearly report thereof to the legislature; to make such by-laws and ordinances, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of this territory, as they may judge most expedient for the government of such schools, academies and colleges, or for the accomplishment of the trust hereby reposed in such trustees; to appoint a president, professors, instructors and other officers, to fix their compensation, and to remove them when such trustees think proper; and also, to confer such degrees as are usually conferred by universities established for the education of youth. Provided, however, that it shall be lawful for the said trustees to elect a president of the University, at any time, and without waiting until the state of the funds will allow the establishment of a college, and the president shall always be, ex officio, a member of the corporation. Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That persons of every religious denomination shall be capable of being elected trustees; nor shall any person as president, professor, instructor or pupil, be refused admittance for his conscientious persuasion in matters of religion, provided he shall demean in a |