Chapter 1467. Supplemental to the Act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, incorporating the Columbian College in the District of Columbia, and the Acts amendatory thereof
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CHAP. 1467.— An Act Supplemental to the Act of February ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, incorporating the Columbian College in the District of Columbia, and the Acts amendatory thereof. March 3, 1905. [[H. R. 18725](/us/bill/58/hr/18725).] [[Public, No. 200](/us/pl/58/200).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.George Washington University.Trustees may added. That the George Washington University shall have, and is hereby given, power to increase the number of its trustees from time to time, by a two-thirds vote of the whole number of the trustees at the time such vote is taken, to a number not exceeding forty-five.
In case, of the increase of the number of trustees a certificate, stating the number of the board and the time when it shall go into effect and that the action so taken was by a two-thirds vote as required by this Act, shall be tiled with the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, and upon and after the date named the board shall consist of the number of trustees stated in such certificate, and said board may also appoint a board or boards of visitors for any department or departments of educational work carried on by the university, such boards of visitors to be advisory only.
Sec. 2. Colleges on special lines. That by and with the consent of the said university, colleges may be organized hereunder for the purpose of carrying on, in connection with the university, special lines of educational work in the arts, sciences, and liberal and technical knowledge, such college’s to be Independent college organizations.educationally a part of the system of the university, but upon independent financial foundations, and to this end any five or more persons desirous of associating themselves for the purpose of establishing a college hereunder may make, sign, and acknowledge before any officer authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds in the District of Columbia, and with the assent of the university in writing, file in the office of the recorder of deeds of the said District a certificate in writing,Certificate. in which shall be stated:
First, the intention to organize a corporation under this Act and the assent of the university thereto; second, the name or title by which the college shall be known in law; third, the names of the trustees constituting the first hoard and such trustees may be divided into three classes, the term of office of one class expiring annually; fourth, the manner of nominating and electing successors to said trustees; fifth, the branch or branches of literature, arts, science, liberal or technical knowledge proposed to be taught; sixth, that the highest officer of said college shall be a dean, the dean and members of the faculty to be members of the educational councils of the university in accordance with the rules governing the university; seventh, that full degrees shall be bestowed by the university; eighth, that in all financial and legal responsibility the college shall bean independent organization.
Upon filing such certificate the trustees named therein and their successors shall Ilea body politic, incorporated by the name and style stated in the certificate, and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession in association with the university, with power in the college to sue and be sued; plead and he impleaded; to acquire, hold, and convey property in all legal ways; to receive by gift, devise, or otherwise, and hold, con-1037trol, and administer endowments and gifts of money and property thereafter made to it for the maintenance of its educational work; to have and use a common seal, and to alter and change the same at pleasure; to make and alter from time to time such by-laws, not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States or the laws in force in said District or the laws of the university regulating the conduct of educational work, as may be deemed necessary for the government of the college, but said college shall not confer academic or honorary degrees; such college shall hold the property of the institution and all moneys and property conveyed to it, by purchase, gift, conveyance, will, devise, or bequest solely for the purposes of the educational work specified in said certificate; file trustees of such college shall faithfully apply all funds collected or received and the proceeds thereof belonging to the institution, according to their best judgment, in purchasing lands and erecting buildings, supporting necessary officers, instructors, and servants, and procuring all equipment, educational and otherwise, necessary to carry on the work of the college.
Sec. 3. That said university may miter into affiliated agreementsAgreements with other institutions. with any institutions of learning outside of the District of Columbia, for the purpose of giving to students of such institutions the educational facilities of said university and the Departments of the Government in the city of Washington, which are by law open to Students, upon such terms as are mutually agreed upon by the said university and the affiliated institutions. Approved, March 3, 1905.