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

纽约州大学  华西协合大学临时特许状


本文件为证:纽约州大学董事会特颁发此临时特许状,准许下列人士及其继任者与同事——

奥斯汀·K·德布卢瓦牧师、约瑟夫·比奇牧师、詹姆斯·恩迪科特牧师、文森特·马西、E·普赖斯·德弗罗牧师、詹姆斯·埃德蒙·克拉克、西里尔·C·B·巴兹利牧师、约翰·富兰克林·高彻牧师、莫尼·威廉斯、威廉·诺思·赖斯、理查德·平奇·鲍尔斯牧师、罗斯·A·哈德利、F·贝利斯牧师、亨利·T·霍奇金、迈克尔·萨德勒、威廉·O·甘茨、埃默里·威廉斯·亨特牧师、詹姆斯·亨利·富兰克林牧师、H·威尔逊·哈里斯、T·R·W·伦茨、弗兰克·梅森·诺思牧师、詹姆斯·伍德、牛顿·W·罗厄尔、小乔治·沃克斯、弗兰克·安德森牧师——  

在中国四川省成都设立一所名为“华西协合大学”之大学,从事初等、中等及高等教育,其主办公机构设于纽约州纽约市曼哈顿区。


该校设董事二十五人,称“大学理事”,首期即上列创办人,按名单顺序:其中八人任职至1922年年度大会,八人至1923年年度大会,九人至1924年年度大会;其后每年由法人成员选出继任者,接替当年任期届满者。理事名额分配如下:

美国浸礼会国外传道会一人,

大不列颠及爱尔兰公谊会国外传道协会一人,

加拿大卫理公会总传道会一人,

美以美会国外传道会一人,

英国圣公会传道会一人,

其余由大学理事会按当时组成情况选出。

各理事任期三年,理事会有权依其通行规章增减理事人数,并得由全体理事一致表决,随时确定理事人数(不少于五人,不超过二十五人)及其任期。


本特许状载明:若五年内该校能筹集价值至少五十万美元之资产与设备,经纽约州大学董事会认定足以供其办学及维持之用,且该校之教育成效与办学品质亦获董事会满意,则将换发绝对特许状,授权该校依大学规定授予毕业生常设学位;在绝对特许状颁发前,凡经董事会认定成绩合格之该校毕业生,将由纽约州大学授予相应学位。


本特许状于1922年5月25日由纽约州大学董事会加盖印章,并登记于该会办公室,编号3126。


阿德尔伯特·穆特       弗兰克·D·格雷夫斯

副校长            大学校长