"III. That the said President and Fellows, and their successors, shall and may hereafter have a common seal, to serve and use for all causes, matters and affairs of them and their successors; and the same seal to alter, break, and make new, as they shall think fit.

"IV. That the said THOMAS CLAP shall be, and he is hereby established the present PRESIDENT, and the said Samuel Whitman, Jared Eliot, Ebenezer Williams, Jonathan Marsh, Samuel Cooke, Samuel Whittlesey, Joseph Noyes, Anthony Stoddard, Benjamin Lord, and Daniel Wadsworth shall be, and they are hereby established the present FELLOWS of the said College; and that they and their successors shall continue in their respective places during life, or until they or either of them, shall resign, or be removed or displaced, as in this act is hereafter expressed.

"V. That there shall be a general meeting of the President and Fellows of said College, in the College Library, on the second Wednesday of September annually, or at any other time and place which they shall see cause to appoint, to consult, advise, act in and about the affairs and business of the said College; and that on any special emergency, the President and two of the Fellows, or any four of the Fellows, may appoint a meeting at the said College, provided they give notice thereof to the rest, by letters sent and left with them, or at the places of their respective abodes, five days before such meeting; and that the President and

six Fellows, or in case of the death, absence, or incapacity of the President, seven Fellows, convened as aforesaid, (in which case the eldest Fellow shall preside,) shall be deemed a meeting of the President and Fellows of said College, and that in all the said meetings, the major vote of the members present shall be deemed the act of the whole; and where an equivote happens, the President shall have a casting vote.

"VI. That the President and Fellows of the said College, and their successors, in any of their meetings, assembled as aforesaid, shall and may, from time to time, as occasion shall require, elect and appoint a President or Fellow, in the room and place of any President or Fellow who shall die, resign, or be removed from his office, place or trust; whom the said Governor and Company hereby declare, for any misdemeanor, unfaithfulness, default, or incapacity, shall be removable by the President and Fellows of the said College; six of them, a least, concurring in such act. And shall have power to appoint a Scribe or Register, a Treasurer, Tutors, Professors, Steward, and all such other officers and servants, usually appointed in Colleges or Universities, as they shall find necessary, and think fit to appoint; for the promoting good literature, and the well ordering and managing the affairs of said College; and them, or any of them, at their discretion, to remove; and to prescribe and administer such forms of oaths, (not being contrary to the laws of England, or of this

Colony,) as they shall think proper, to be administered to all those officers and instructors of the said College, or to such, and so many of them as they shall think proper, for the faithful execution of their respective places, offices and trusts.

"VII. That the present President and Fellows of said College, and their successors, and all such Tutors, Professors, and other officers, as shall be appointed for the public instruction and government of said College, before they undertake the execution of their respective offices and trusts, or within three months after, shall publicly, in the College Hall, take the oaths and subscribe the declaration appointed by an act of Parliament, made in the first year of King GEORGE the first; entitled, An Act for the further security of his Majesty's Person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants; and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret Abettors; that is to say, the President before the governor, Deputy Governor, or any two of the assistants of this Colony, for the time being; and the Fellows, Tutors, and other officers, before the President, for the time being; who is hereby impowered to administer the same. An entry of all which shall be made in the records of said College.

"VIII. That the President and Fellows shall have the government, care and management of the said College; and all the matters and affairs there

unto belonging; and shall have power, from time to time, as occasion shall require, to make, ordain, and establish, all such wholesome and reasonable laws, rules and ordinances, not repugnant to the laws of England, nor the laws of this Colony, as they shall think fit and proper, for the instruction and education of the Students, and ordering, governing, ruling and managing the said College, and all matters, affairs and things, thereunto belonging, and the same to repeal and alter, as they shall think fit; which shall be laid before this Assembly, as often as required, and may also be repealed or disallowed by this assembly, when they shall think proper.

"IX. That the President of said College with the consent of the Fellows, shall have power to give and confer, all such honors, degrees or licences, as are usually given in Colleges or Universities, upon such as they shall think worthy thereof.

"X. That all the lands and rateable estate belonging to the said College, not exceeding the yearly value of five hundred pounds sterling, lying in this government, and the persons, families and estates of the President and Professors, lying in and being in the town of New Haven, and the persons of the Tutors, Students, and such and so many of the servants of said College, as give their constant attendance on the business of it, shall be freed and exempted from all rates, taxes, military service, working at highways, and such other like duties and services.

"XI. And for the special encouragement and support of said College, this Assembly do hereby grant unto the said President and Fellows, and their successors, for the use of the said College, in lieu of all former grants, one hundred pounds silver money, at the rate of six shillings and eight pence per ounce, to be paid in bills of public credit, or other currency, equivalent to the said hundred pounds, (the rate or value thereof to be stated from time to time by this Assembly,) in two equal payments, in October and May annually. This payment to continue during the pleasure of this Assembly.

"IN FULL TESTIMONY and confirmation of this grant, and all the articles and matters therein contained, the said Governor and Company do hereby order, that this act shall be signed by the Governor and Secretary; and sealed with the public seal of this Colony and that the same, or a duplicate or exemplification thereof, shall be a sufficient warrant to the said President and Fellows, to hold, use and exercise all the powers and privileges therein mentioned and contained.

"JONTH. LAW, Governor. "By order of the said Governor and Company, in General Court assembled.

"George Wyllys, Secretary."

This Charter greatly improved the condition of the College, and several valuable donations from individuals and the General Assembly, enabled the