The University of the State of New York Provisional charter of West China Union University，纽约州大学 华西协合大学临时特许状

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The University of the State of New York Provisional charter of West China Union University

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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Provisional Charter of WEST CHINA UNION UNIVERSITY THIS INSTRUMENT WITNESSETH That the Regents of the University of the State of New York have granted this provisional charter incorporating Rev. Austin K. DeBlois, Rev. Joseph Beech, Rev. James Endicott, Vincent Massey, Rev. Canon E. Price Devereaux, James Edmund Clark, Rev. Cyril C. B. Bardsley, Rev. John Franklin Goucher, Morney Williams, William North Rice, Rev. Richard Pinch Bowles, Ross A. Hadley, Rev. F. Baylis, Henry T. Hodgkin, Michael Sadler, William O Gantz, Rev. Emory Williams Hunt, Rev. James Henry Franklin, H. Wilson Harris, T. R. W. Luntz, Rev. Frank Mason North and James Wood, Newton W. Rowell, George Vaux, Jr., Rev. Frank Anderson, and their successors and associates as a university for the elementary, secondary and higher education of youth in China under the corporate name of "West China Union University", to be located at Chengtu, in the province of Szechwan, China, with the principal office to be located in the Borough of Manhattan, in the City, County and State of New York, with twenty-five trustees who shall be known as the Governors of the University, to be at first the persons named herein as incorporators, to hold in the order of their naming, eight until the annual meeting of the University in the year 1922, eight until the annual meeting in 1923, and nine until the annual meeting in 1924 and until their successors shall be chosen by the members of the corporation each year in place of those whose terms expire within that year, one from the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, one from the Friends Foreign Mission Association, Great Britain and Ireland, one from the General Board of Missions of the Methodist Church of Canada, one from the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, one from the Church Missionary Society, and the remainder from the Board of Governors of the University as it may be constituted from time to time, and to hold office for terms of three years each with power in them to increase or decrease its membership in such manner and upon such terms as shall be provided for by the general rules of its trustees, with power in them from time to time by unanimous vote of their full board to fix their terms of office and their number to be not more than twenty-five nor less than five; and with the provisions that this charter will be replaced by an absolute charter authorizing the university to confer upon its graduates the usual degrees, subject to the restrictions and requirements of the University, if within five years the corporation shall acquire resources and equipment of the value of at least $500,000, available for its use and support and sufficient and suitable for its chartered purposes in the judgment of the Regents of the University and be maintaining an institution of educational usefulness and character satisfactory to them; and that until the granting of the absolute charter suitable degrees of The University of the State of New York will be conferred upon the graduates of the University who in the judgment of the Regents shall have duly earned the same. GRANTED MAY 25, 1922, by the Regents of the University of the State of New York, executed under their seal and recorded in their office. Number 3126 ADELBERT MOOT                              FRANK D. GRAVES Vice Chancellor                           President of the University

紐約州大學  華西協合大學臨時特許狀 本文件為證：紐約州大學董事會特頒發此臨時特許狀，准許下列人士及其繼任者與同事—— 奧斯汀·K·德布盧瓦牧師、約瑟夫·比奇牧師、詹姆斯·恩迪科特牧師、文森特·馬西、E·普賴斯·德弗羅牧師、詹姆斯·埃德蒙·克拉克、西里爾·C·B·巴茲利牧師、約翰·富蘭克林·高徹牧師、莫尼·威廉斯、威廉·諾思·賴斯、理察·平奇·鮑爾斯牧師、羅斯·A·哈德利、F·貝利斯牧師、亨利·T·霍奇金、麥可·薩德勒、威廉·O·甘茨、埃默里·威廉斯·亨特牧師、詹姆斯·亨利·富蘭克林牧師、H·威爾遜·哈里斯、T·R·W·倫茨、弗蘭克·梅森·諾思牧師、詹姆斯·伍德、牛頓·W·羅厄爾、小喬治·沃克斯、弗蘭克·安德森牧師——   在中國四川省成都設立一所名為「華西協合大學」之大學，從事初等、中等及高等教育，其主辦公機構設於紐約州紐約市曼哈頓區。 該校設董事二十五人，稱「大學理事」，首期即上列創辦人，按名單順序：其中八人任職至1922年年度大會，八人至1923年年度大會，九人至1924年年度大會；其後每年由法人成員選出繼任者，接替當年任期屆滿者。理事名額分配如下： 美國浸禮會國外傳道會一人， 大不列顛及愛爾蘭公誼會國外傳道協會一人， 加拿大衛理公會總傳道會一人， 美以美會國外傳道會一人， 英國聖公會傳道會一人， 其餘由大學理事會按當時組成情況選出。 各理事任期三年，理事會有權依其通行規章增減理事人數，並得由全體理事一致表決，隨時確定理事人數（不少於五人，不超過二十五人）及其任期。 本特許狀載明：若五年內該校能籌集價值至少五十萬美元之資產與設備，經紐約州大學董事會認定足以供其辦學及維持之用，且該校之教育成效與辦學品質亦獲董事會滿意，則將換發絕對特許狀，授權該校依大學規定授予畢業生常設學位；在絕對特許狀頒發前，凡經董事會認定成績合格之該校畢業生，將由紐約州大學授予相應學位。 本特許狀於1922年5月25日由紐約州大學董事會加蓋印章，並登記於該會辦公室，編號3126。 阿德爾伯特·穆特　　　　　　　弗蘭克·D·格雷夫斯 副校長　　　　　　　　　　　　大學校長