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HOWARD UNIVERSITY.
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A P P EN D IC E S
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An A ct to incorporate “ The Howard U n iversity,”
in the D istrict of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives o f the United States o f
America
,
in Congress assembled.
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t i o n
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That there be established, and is
hereby established, in the District of Co
lumbia, a university for the education of
youth in the liberal arts and sciences,
under the name, style and title of u The
Howard University.”
SEC. 2.
And be itfurther enacted,
That
Samuel C. Pomeroy, Charles B. Boynton,
Oliver O. Ploward, Burton C. Cook,
Charles H. Howard, James B. Hutchinson,
Henry A. Brewster, Benjamin F. Morris,
Danforth B. Nichols, William G. Finney,
Roswell H. Stevens, E. M. Cushman,
Hiram Barber, E. W. Robinson, W. F.
Bascom, James B. Johnson, and Silas L.
Loomis be, and they are hereby declared
to be, a body politic and corporate, with
perpetual succession in deed or in law to
all intents and purposes whatsoever, by
the name, style and title of “ The Howard
University,” by which name and title
they and their successors shall be com
petent, at law and in equity, to take to
themselves and their successors, for the
use of said University, any estate whatso
ever in any messuage, lands, tenements,
hereditaments, goods, chattels, monies,
and other effects, by gift, devise, grant,
donation, bargain, sale, conveyance, as
surance, or w ill; and the same to grant,
bargain, sell, transfer, assign, convey,
assure, demise, declare to use and farm
let, ana to place out on interest, for the
use of said University, in such manner as
to them, or a majority of them, shall be
deemed most beneficial to said institution ;
and to receive the same, their rents, issues,
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and profits, income and interest, and to
apply the same for the proper use and
benefit of said University ; and by the
same name to sue and be sued, to implead
and be impleaded, in any courts of law
and equity, in all manner of suits, actions,
and proceedings whatsoever, and gener
ally by and in the same name to do and
transact all and every the business touch
ing or concerning the premises :
Provided
.,
That the same do not exceed the value of
fifty thousand dollars net annual income,
over and above and exclusive of the re
ceipts for the education and support of
the students of said University.
SEC. 3.
And be it further enacted
, That
the first meeting of said corporators shall
be holden at the time and place at which
a majority of the persons hereinabove
named shall assemble for that purpose;
and six days’ notice shall be given each
of said corporators, at which meeting
said corporators may enact by-laws, not
inconsistent with the laws of the United
States, regulating the government of the
corporation.
SEC.
4.
A nd be it further enacted
, That
the government of the University shall
be vested in a board of trustees of not less
than thirteen members, who shall be
elected by the corporators at their first
meeting. Said board of trustees shall
have perpetual succession in deed or in
law, and in them shall be vested the
power hereinbefore granted to the corpo
ration. They shall adopt a common seal,
which they may alter at pleasure, under
and by which all deeds, diplomas, and
acts of the University shall pass and be
authenticated. They shall elect a presi
dent, a secretary, and a treasurer. The
treasurer shall give such bonds as the
board of trustees may direct. The said
board shall appoint the professors and
tutors, prescribing the number and deter