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The Officers, Statutes and Charter of the College of William and Mary
The Officers Statutes and Charter of the College of William and Mary Author:College of William and Mary Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1 resignation, or deprivation of the said President, or professors or any of them, the said Francis Nicholson, William Cole, andc. and their successors, or th... more »e major part of them, shall have power to put in, and substitute, a fit person, .or persons, from time to time, into his or their place, or places, according to the orders and statutes of the said College, to be imde, enacted, and established, for the good and wholesome government of the said College, and of all that bear office, or reside therein, by the said Francis Nicholson, William Cole, andc. or their successors, or the major part of them. V. And further, we will, and for us, our heirs, and successors, by these presents, do GRANT, that when the said College shall be so erected, made, founded, and established, it shall be called and denominated, for ever, the College of William and Mary, in Virginia, and that the President and masters, or professors, of the said College, shall be a body politic and incorporate, in deed and name; and that by the name of the President, and masters, or professors, of the College of William and Mary, in Virginia, they shall have perpetual succession; and that the said President, and masters, or professors, shall for ever be called and denominated the President, and Masters, or Professors, of the College of William and Mary, in Virginia: And that the said President, and masters, or professors, and their successors, by the name of the President, and masters, or professors, 6f the College of William and Mary, in Virginia, shall be persons able, capable, apt, and perpetual in law, to take and hold lordships, manors, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, rectories, portions, pensions, annuities, inheritances, possessions, and services, as well spiritual as temporal, whatsoever, and all manne...« less