The Obligations of the University of Maine (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Obligations of the University of MaineWhenever they have reason to believe that the trustees are exercising, or attempting to exercise, any unlawful power, or are unlawfully omitting to perform any legal duty, they may direct the attorney general to insti tute process against the trustees in their corporate capacity, in the nature of a complaint in equity, before the Supreme Judicial Court, in the county in which the College is established, and the court, after notice, shall hear and determine the same by summary proceedings, in term time, or by any judge in vacation, and may make any suitable decree restraining the trustees from performing or continuing the unlawful acts complained of, and requiring them to perform whatever is unlawfully omitted. This act provided for the sale of the land-script appropriated by Congress for the endowment of such a college. It also provided that the trustees should, procure tracts of land suitable as a site for the estab lishment of such a college. The trustees were also thereby given author ity to appoint such directors, professors, lecturers, and teachers in the College, from time to time, as the means at their command might permit, for the accomplishment of the objects enumerated and described in the fourth section of the act of Congress above referred to. It also provided that the trustees should arrange and make known the several courses of instruction which they will undertake in the College at the outset, and that they should enlarge and improve. The same whenever practicable. Subject to the limitations prescribed by Congress. It also made it the duty iof the trustees, by this act of the Maine Legislature of 1865, to impress upon the minds of the students the principles of morality and justice and a sacred regard for truth, love of country, humanity, and. Uni versal benevolence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation, and temperance, and all other virtues which are ornaments of human society.By the act of Chapter 362 of 1867 it was provided that no vacancy in the Board of Trustees should be filled until the number of trustees should be reduced to less than seven, and that thereafter the number of trustees should remain seven and no more. It also provided for the appointment of all the trustees by the governor with the advice and consent of his council.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.