Corporation subject to visitation 6. To make all ordinances and by-laws necessary to carry into effect the foregoing powers. Sec. 6. Any Institution incorporated under the provisions and exam. of this Act, shall be always subject to the visitation and nation. Funds, how to be applied. Offcers may be required to give bond etc. Trustees to report to dent of Pub. tion. i examination of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and also to a Board of Visitors, (three in number,) to be annually appointed by said Superintendent; and said Visitors shall report to said Superintendent as soon after an examination as practicable. Sec. 7. The Trustees of any Institution incorporated under the provisions of this Act, shall apply all funds and property belonging thereto, according to their best judg ment, to the promotion of its objects and interests: Provided, That any gift, bequest or donation to such Institu tion for any specific object, shall be faithfully applied to the object specified by such donor. Sec. 8. The Trustees of any Institution incorporated under the provisions of this Act, may require the Treasurer, and all other officers and agents, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, to give bonds and securities in such sums as they may deem proper and sufficient. Sec. 9. Such Trustees shall be required, on or before the Superinten- first day of December, annually, to report to the Superinlic Instruc- tendent of Public Instruction, a statement of the name of each Trustee, Officer, Teacher and student of such Institution, with a statement of its property, the amount of stock subscribed, donated and bequeathed, and the amount actually paid in, and such other information as will tend to exhibit its condition and operations. And said Trustees Liability of shall be severally and jointly liable for all the labor perlabor performed for the Corporation; but no execution shall issue Const, Art against any Trustee, till an execution against the Corporation shall have been returned unsatisfied, in whole or in part; and no such Trustee shall be thus liable, unless suit for the collection of such debt shall have been brought Trustees for formed. 15, Sec. 7. against said Corporation within one year after such debt shall have become due. of process to corporation. Sec. 10. Service of legal process on any such Corpora- How service tion, may be made on any one of the Trustees thereof, if be made on such Trustee be in the county in which the Institution is located; but if not, then by leaving a copy of such process with any officer in the employ thereof, at its principal place of business. stitutions incorporated under ers and lia. such new Sec. 11. Any Institution of Learning now in existence Existing inin this State, whether incorporated or not, shall be entitled may become to all the benefits of this Act, by complying with the pro- this Act. visions of this Act; and may, by a vote of the majority of such Corporation or unincorporated Company or Association, to be taken according to the act of incorporation, bylaws, or other legal regulations thereof, determine to avail itself of the provisions of this Act, and to take and assume corporate name and powers thereunder, and may, by a like vote, transfer to such Corporation, formed under this Act, Rights, pow all its property, both real, personal and mixed; and there- bilities of upon said Corporation, to which such property is so trans-corporation. ferred, shall take the same in the same manner, to the same extent, and with the like effect as the same was previously owned and held by the Corporation, Company or Association so transferring the same, and may, in its own corporate name, sue for and collect all debts, dues, demands, subscriptions, devises and bequests thereof. The said Corporation so taking such property as aforesaid, shall take the same subject to all liens, trusts and limitations, both legal and equitable, to which the same was subject before such transfer, and shall also be liable for all the debts and obligations of such previous Corporation, Company or Associa tion, and shall pay the same to the full extent of the value of such property at the time of so taking the same. upon powers tion. Sec. 12. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as grant- Restriction ing banking powers, or as allowing the business of broker- of corpora. age, or any other powers, not usually granted to, or exercised by Institutions for educational purposes. Report to be made to Su Sec. 13. It shall be the duty of the President of the perintend❜nt Board of Trustees of every organized Academy, or Literary of Public Instruction. or Collegiate Institution, heretofore incorporated or hereafter to be incorporated, to cause to be made out by the principal Instructor, or other proper officer, and forwarded by mail or otherwise, to the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, between the first and fifteenth days of December in each year, a report, setting forth the amount and estimated value of real estate owned by the Corpora tion, the amount of other funds and endowments, and the yearly income from all sources, the number of Instructors, Contents of the number of students in the different classes, the studies pursued, and the books used, the course of instruction, the terms of tuition, and such other matters as may be specially requested by said Superintendent, or as may be deemed proper by the President or Principal of such Academies or Institutes, to enable the Superintendent of Public Instruction to lay before the Legislature a fair and full exhibit of the affairs and condition of said Institutions. (") report. Sec. of State to furnish laws and documents institutions. DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLIC RECORDS. (3) Sec. 1. It shall the duty of the Secretary of State to furnish to the State Normal School, to the Agricultural to certain School, to the Asylum for the Insane, to the Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, and to each of the incorporated colleges within the State, a full set of the laws and public documents of the State, as published from time to time, and also, as far as it may be possible without re-publication, to furnish to each of the above named institutions, not already supplied, a full set of such laws and documents as have hitherto been published, and which may now be in the possession of the State, and not otherwise appropriated. (1) Section 13, passed March 4, 1849. [Compiled Laws, p. 768.] FORMS FOR PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE SCHOOL LAW. Since the following Forms, except the first three, were printed, Form No. XVI has become obsolete by the repeal of Section 95; and Form No. XVII has been rendered insufficient by an amendment to Section 85. The Form (of Teacher's Certificate) now proper to be used in place of the latter, will be found on page 200. Form of Notice by the Clerk of the Board of Inspectors to a Taxable Inhabitant of a District at the time of its formation. To A. B.: [See Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 129] SIR-The School Inspectors of the township of have formed a School District in said township, to be known as District No. description.] and bounded [here insert the The first meeting of said District will be held at on the day of , A. D. 18, at o'clock A. M., [or P. M.,] and you are instructed to notify every legal voter of said District of the same, at least five days previ ous to said meeting, either personally, or by leaving a written notice at his place of residence; and you will endorse on this notice a return, showing such notification, with the date or dates thereof, and deliver the same to the Chairman of said meeting. Dated this day of (Signed,) , A. D. 18 C. D., Clerk of the Board of School Inspectors. NO. II. Form of Notice for First Meeting-when made in Writing, be to left at the house of a Legal Voter. having been formed by the Inspectors, you are hereby notified that the first meeting thereof will be held at Form of Endorsement upon the Notice-Form No. 1-by "Taxable Inhabitant." [See Sections 3 and 15.] I, A————— B———————, hereby return the within (or annexed) notice, and have notified the qualified voters of the District, as follows: |