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Permanent Charter of St. Bonaventure's College
University of the State of New York
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By the Regents of the University of the State of New York
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__________ Whereas the said Regents of the University,
by an Instrument or Charter under their
common Seal, bearing date the first day
of March in the year one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five, on application
duly made to them for that purpose, did,
in pursuance of the power in them vested
by law, establish an institution for the
instruction of your in the learned lan-
guages and in the liberal and useful arts
and sciences at the Village of Allegany in
the county of Cattaraugus, and did ap-
point Charles Da Nazzano, James Titta,
Michael Rebaudi and other persons therein
named, the first trustees thereof, and did
thereby ordain and declare that the said
trustees and their successors should be a
body corporate and politic by the name
of “St Bonaventure’s College”, with the
privileges and powers therein mentioned:
Provided, however, and it was thereby
declared, that if at or before the expira-
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tion of the term of five years from the
date of the said charter, the trustees of
the said St Bonventure’s College should
not furnish to the said Regents satis-
factory evidence that they had invested
for the use of the said College funds
amounting to not less than One Hun-
dred Thousand Dollars in Securities
of the character therein mentioned, or that
they had made such other provision
to insure the efficient working and
permanent establishment of the said
College as should be satisfactory to the
said Regents, that then the said Charter
and all the provisions thereof might be-
come void and of no effect; but in
case the said trustees should furnish
satisfactory evidence that such invest-
ment had been made, that then the
said Charter should become perpetual,
as on reference thereto will more fully
appear: ______________________
And whereas the said trustees, by
their application to the said Regents
bearing date the third day of July
in the year one thousand eight
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hundred and eighty-two, have repre-
sented that the real and personal
property of the said St Bonaventure’s Col-
lege used for purposes of instruction
is of the value of Two Hundred and
Five Thousand Dollars free of any en-
cumbrance, and that such provision
has been made for the care, conduct
and management of said College as
will insure its efficient working and
permanent establishment; and praying
that they may be admitted to all the
rights and privileges of a college incor-
porated with an absolute Charter; _____
______ And the said Regents, having con-
sidered the said application, and being
of opinion that it is expedient under
the circumstances that the same should
be granted, do hereby, in pursuance of
the authority in us by law vested,
grant, ordain and declare, that the
said proviso in the said Charter of
St Bonaventure’s College herein-before men-
tioned shall be deemed and taken
to have been, and the same is hereby
declared to have been complied with
and fulfilled to the satisfaction of the
said Regents, and that the said Charter
be and the same is hereby made and
declared to be perpetual, subject to the
right of us the said Regents and of our
successors at any time hereafter to alter,
modify or repeal this instrument and
the said Charter._________________
In Witness Whereof, we, the
said Regents, have caused
our common seal to be
hereon impressed and
our Chancellor and Sec-
retary to subscribe their
names, this eleventh day
of January, in the year
one thousand eight hun-
dred and eighty-three.
Chancellor of the University
[signed ?]
Secretary
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