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E X T R A C T 
 
 FROM TIIK 
 
 )VILL OF THE LATE HON. JAMES WGIU, 
 
 
 WITH THi; 
 
 charter of tfte Slmberssitp of mteill Collese, 
 
 ITS 
 
 STATUTES, RULES, REGULATIONS, ETC. 
 
 AND 
 
 I 
 
 THE ADDRESS, 
 
 DELIVEKED BY THE PRINCIPAL, ON THE OCCASION OE 
 THE OPENING OF THAT INSTITUTION, 
 
 SIXTH SEPTEMBER, 1843. 
 
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 1843. 
 
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EXTRACT 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 mil OF THE LATE HON. JAMES SfGILL. 
 
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 I GIVE and devise all that tract or parcel of land, commonly 
 called Burnside, situated near the City of Montreal aforesaid, 
 containing about forty-six acres, including an acre of land pur- 
 chased by me from one Sanscrainte, together with tho dwelling 
 house and other buildinj_,» thereon erected, with their appurten- 
 ances, unto the Honorable John Richardson and James Reid, of 
 the City of Montreal, aforesaid. Esquires, the Reverend John 
 Strachan, Rector of Cornwall, in Upper Canada, and James 
 Dunlop, of the said City of Montreal, Esquire, and to their heirs, 
 to, upon, and for, the uses, trusts, intents, and purposes, and 
 with, and subject to, the provisoes, conditions, and limitations, 
 hereinafter mentioned and expressed, of and concerning the 
 same, that is to say, upon trust that they the said John Richard- 
 son, James Reid, John Strachan, and James Dunlop, or the 
 survivors or survivor of them, or the heirs, executors, or cura- 
 tors, of such survivors or survivor, do and shall, as soon as it 
 conveniently can be done after my decease, by a good and 
 sufficient conveyance and assurance, convey and assure the said 
 last mentioned tract or parcel of land, dwelling house, buildinn-s 
 and premises, to the Royal Institution for the advancement of 
 Learning, constituted and established, or to be constituted 
 and established, under and by virtue of an Act of the Parlia- 
 ment of the Province of Lower Canada, made and passed 
 in the forty-first year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled " An Act 
 
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 for tlie cstablishinont of Free Schools and the advancement of 
 Learning in this rrovince" — upon and nnd(3r the conditions, res- 
 trictions, and limitations, and to and for the ends, intents, and 
 pnrposts ftllowing, that is to say, npon condition that the said 
 "Royal Institution for the advancement of Learning" do and 
 shall, -within the s[)acc of ten years to be accounted from the 
 time of njy decease, erect and establish, or cause to be erected 
 and established, upon the said last mentioned tract or parcel of 
 land, an University or College, for the purposes of education, 
 and the advancement of learning in this Province, with a com- 
 petent number of Professors and Teachers, to render such 
 establishment effectual and beneficial for the purposes intended, 
 and if the said " Royal Listitution for the advancement of Learn- 
 ing" should so erect and establish, or cause to be erected and 
 established, an University, then, upon condition, also, that one 
 of the Colleges, to be comprised in tlie said University, shall be 
 named, and perpetually be known and distinguished, by the 
 appellation of " McGill Collego ;" and if the said " Royal Insti- 
 tution for the advancement of Learning," should not so erect and 
 establish, or cause to be erected and established, an Univer- 
 sity, but should erect and establish, or cause to be erected and 
 established, a College only, then upon the further conditions, 
 that the said College shall be named, and per[)etually be known 
 and distinguished, by the appellation of "McGill College;" and 
 upon condition also, that until such University or College be 
 erected and established, the said " Royal Institution for the 
 advancement of Learning" do and shall permit and suffer my 
 said wife, and in case of her death, the said Francis DesRivicres, 
 to hold, possess and enjoy, the said last mentioned tract or parcel 
 of land, dwelling house, buildings and premises, and to recover, 
 have and receive, all and every, the rents, issues and profits 
 thereof, to and for, her and his use and benefit ; and upon this 
 other and further express condition, that if the said "Royal 
 Institution for the advancement of Learning" should neglect to 
 erect and establish, or cause to be erected and established, such 
 University or College as aforesaid, in manner aforesaid, within 
 the said space of ten years, to be accounted from the time of my 
 decease, then, and in such case, the said conveyance and assurance 
 
so made to the said " Royal Institution for tlio advancement ot 
 Learning" shall, iVom and alter the expiration of the said space 
 of ten years, become and be, absolutely null and void, and all and 
 every the estate, right, title and interest of the said " Koyal 
 Institution for the advancement of Learning," of, in, and to, the 
 .said last mentioned tract or parcel of land and premises, shall cerse 
 and be determined, and be as completely extinguished, as if such 
 conveyance and assurance had never been made or executed: All 
 which conditions, restrictions, and limitations, shall, in apt and 
 sulRcient language, be fully expressed in such conveyance and 
 assurance. And upon trust that the said John Richardson, James 
 Reid, John Strachan, and James Dunlop, or the survivors or 
 survivor of them, or the heirs, executors or curators of such 
 survivors or survivor of them, do and shall jjcrmit and sutfer 
 my said wife, or in case of her death, the said Francis DesRivieres 
 to hold, possess and enjoy, the said tract or parcel of land, 
 dwelling house, buildings and premises, and recover, have, and 
 receive, the rents, issues and profits thereof until the making and 
 executing of tlie said conveyance and assurance, so as aforesaid 
 to be made to the said "Royal Institution for the advancement 
 of Learning," and if the said " Royal Institution for the advance- 
 ment of Learning" should refuse to accept and receive, the said 
 conveyance and assurance of the said last mentioned tract or 
 parcel of land and premises, npon the conditions, restrictions and 
 limitations, herein before expressed and directed, of and concern- 
 ing the same, or shouhl after tlic making and accei)ting of the 
 said conveyance and assurance, neglect to erect and establish, or 
 cause to be erected and established, such L^niversity or College as 
 aforesaid, in manner aforesaid, within the said space of ten years, 
 to be accounted from the time of my decease, or if from any 
 legal cause, matter ov thing, tlie said trust, so as aforesaid to 
 convey and assure the said last mentioned tract or parcel of land 
 and premises to the said Royal Institution lor the advancement 
 of Learning, in the manner herein before directed, should be in- 
 capable of being accomplished or carried into effect, or otherwise 
 become, or be, or be deemed, or construed, to be invalid, illegal, or 
 inoperative, then, and in either or any of those cases, upon trust, 
 that they, the said John Richardson, James Reid, John Strachan, 
 
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 and James Dunlop, or the survivors or survivor of tlicm, or the 
 heirs, executors or curators of such survivors or survivor, do 
 and shall, from and immediately after the expiration of the said 
 space of ten years, by a good sind sufficient conveyance and as- 
 surance, convey and assure the said lart mentioned tract or 
 parcel of land, dwelling house, buildings and premises to the said 
 Francis DcsRivieres, (if then living,) and to his heirs and assigns 
 for ever, or if the said Francis Desllivieres should be dead, then 
 to the legal heirs then living, and to their heirs and assigns for 
 ever. 
 
 I give and bequeath, from and out of the rest and residue of 
 my estates, real and personal, moveable and immoveable, which 
 shall and may remain after the fulfilment and satisfaction of the 
 several legacies in this my Will contained, the sum of ^ew thousand 
 pounds, current money of the said Province of Lower Canada, to 
 the said John Richardson, James Reid, John Strachan, and 
 James Dunlop, their heirs, executors, or curators, upon the 
 trust, and to and for the intents and purposes, and upon the 
 conditions following, that is to say, upon trust : that tliey, the 
 said John Richardson, James Reid, John Strachan, and James 
 Dunlop, or the survivors or survivor of them, or the heirs, 
 executors and curators of such survivors, do and shall pay the 
 said sum of ten thousand pounds (with the interest to accrue 
 thereon from and after the expiration of three years from my 
 decease) to the said " Royal Institution for the advancement of 
 Learning," when and so soon as the said " Royal Institution for 
 the advancement of Learning" shall have erected and established, 
 or cause to be erected and established, an University or College 
 upon the last mentioned tract or parcel of land, herein before 
 directed to be conveyed to the said " Royal Institution for the 
 advancement of Learning," in manner aforesaid, to be by the 
 said " Royal Institution for tlie advancement of Learning'' jmid 
 and apj)lied toicards defraying the expeiise incurred in estab- 
 lishing tha said Universitg or College, and towards maintaining 
 the same after it shall have been erected and established, in such 
 manner and form, and under such regulations as the said "Royal 
 Institution for the advancement of Learning" shall in this behalf 
 prescribe. Provided always, that such University or College be 
 
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 lotion of the 
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 all pay the 
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 orected and established within the space of ten years, to be 
 accounted from th time of my decease : and if such University 
 or College should not be so erected and established within the said 
 space of ten years, then upon trust that they, the said John 
 Richardson, James Reid, John Strachan, and James Dunlop, or 
 the survivors or survivor of them, or the heirs, executors, or curators 
 of such survivor, from and immediately after the said expiration 
 of the said space of ten years, do and shall pay the said sum often 
 thousand pounds, with all and every the interest accrued thereon, 
 to the said Francis DesRivicres, if then living, to and for his 
 use and benefit, or if dead, then to his h gal heirs then living, to 
 and for their use and benefit. 
 
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ClIAllTliR OF WGllL COLLEGE. 
 
 George the Fourth, hj the Grace of God, of the United Kingioni 
 of Great Brita'm and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith. 
 
 TO ALL TO WHOM TIIKSE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 
 
 GREETING : 
 
 Date of 
 
 on. 
 
 Whereas, the Honorable Ja.mes McGill, late of the 
 City of Montreal, in the Province of Lower Canada, 
 now (leceaserl, by his last will and testament, bearing 
 date at Montreal, the eighth day of Jannary, in the year jj|^^ ^^^^^^ 
 of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, M'ciiUswm. 
 did give and bequeath a certain tract of land near the Tract of 
 said City of ^Montreal, witli the dwelling house and other J;;"':J.;^';;;Jf,^.^ 
 buildings thereon erected, to Trustees in trust to con-'"|'|"j';^\"^|; 
 vcy and assure the same to the Koval Institution for the ^''t" '^v^'^i'"- 
 
 •' " stitutiou for 
 
 advancement of learning, establislied by virtue of an Act t'"*^ niiviince- 
 
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 of the Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada, made and Learning, 
 passed in the 41st year of the reign of llis late Majesty, 
 intituled " An Act for tlie establishment of Free Schools 
 and the advancement of Learning in this Province," 
 upon conditicm that the said Institution should, within 
 ten years from the decease of the said James McGill,erect 
 and establish, or cause to be erected and established upon 
 the said land, an University or College, for the purposes of 
 education and the advancement of learning in the said 
 Province, with a competent number of Professors and 
 Teachers to render such establishment effectual and ben- 
 eficial for the purpose intended, and also upon condition 
 that one of the Colleges to be comprised in the said Uni- 
 versity should be called "McGill College." And whereas 
 the said James McGill, Esq., by his said will, did further 
 give and bequeath to the said Trustees, the sum of £10,000 ^10,000 be- 
 in trust, to pay the same with interest to accrue thereon t|.u^J(!^^ In 
 
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 trust, to 1,0 from and ufter the expiration of three years from his de- 
 
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 t jrcst to tiie cease to the said Royal Institution for the advancement 
 
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 ttition for of Learning, to be applied as soon as the said Institution 
 
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 incnt of should liavc erected an University or College on the 
 "' said land, towards defraying the expenses thereby 
 incurred and towards maintaining the said University 
 or College so erected and established. And whereas 
 Petition of we have been humbly petitioned by the said "lloyul 
 stittitiun fur Institution for the advancement of Learning, that we 
 chartJr would be plcascd to grant our lloyal Charter for the 
 more perfect erection and establishment of the said 
 College, and for incorporating the members thereof for 
 the purposes aforesaid, and for such further endowment 
 thereof, as to us should seem meet, we, having taken 
 the premises into our Tloyal consideration, and being 
 desirous that an University or College should be 
 established for the education of youth in the principles 
 The pcti- of truc Rchgion, and for their instruction in the diffe- 
 cd with, and rent branclics of science and literature, are willing to 
 comply with the prayer of the said petition, and to 
 afford every assistance towards carrying the intentions 
 of the said James McGill into execution. 
 
 Therefore, know ye that we, of our especial grace, 
 
 certain knowledge and mere motion have willed, ordained 
 
 and granted^and do by these presents for us, our heirs and 
 
 successors, will, ordain, and grant, that upon the said land 
 
 and in the said buildings thereon erected, or to be erected, 
 
 ie'^"ut kast *^^^^^ ^^^^'^ ^^ established from this time one College at 
 
 lish'cd *^*"^^" ^^^^ ^^^^* ^^^' ^^^^ education of youth and students in the 
 
 arts and faculties, to continue for ever, and that the first 
 
 Called Me. College to be erected thereon shall be called " McGill 
 
 Gill coiioKe. College," and that our trusty and well beloved, the 
 
 Governor of Lower Canada; Lieutenant Governor of 
 
 Who shall -^^^^^^^ Canada; Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada; 
 
 ^° ^'.P^'T- tho Bishop of Quebec; tlic Chief Justice of Montreal; 
 
 nors 01 said 1 -v 7 7 
 
 College. j^nd the Chief «Tustice of Upper Canada, for the time 
 being, shall be Governors of the said McGill College, 
 and that the said College shall consist of one Principal, 
 
 reasons 
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 the said 
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 jnd being 
 should be 
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 intentions 
 
 ial grace, 
 
 ordained 
 
 heirs and 
 
 said land 
 
 te erected, 
 
 'ollege at 
 
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 It the first 
 
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 Dved, the 
 
 pernor of 
 
 ' Canada; 
 
 VIontreal; 
 
 the time 
 
 College, 
 
 ?rincipal. 
 
 
 to be elected in manner hereinafter mentioned, and <>i>icer.s of 
 who shall be, during his continuance in the said ^ ""':;'t' "i^ai^ 
 
 ° ' COUSlbt. 
 
 office, a Governor of the said College, of four Professors 
 to be also elected in manner hereinafter mentioned, and 
 of Fellows, Tutors, and Scholars in such numbers, and 
 at such salaries, and subject to such provisions, rules, 
 and regulations, as shall hereafter be appointed by the 
 Statutes, Rules and Ordinances of the said College. And 
 we do, by these presents, for us, our heirs and succes- 
 sors, will, ordain and grant that the Principal and Pro- rrineipai 
 fessors of the said College shall be from time to time ""t ^holv'' 
 elected by the said Governors or the major part of such *'''^^''^'^*^" 
 of them as shall be present at any meeting to beholden 
 for such election ; and in case of any equality of votes 
 the officer present at such meeting whose office is first 
 described in order in these presents shall have a double 
 and casting vote ; provided always, that the persons by 
 whom such elections shall be made shall notify the same 
 respectively to us, our heirs and successors, tlirough one 
 
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 of our or their principal Secretaries or State, by thenrst Piincii.niaiid 
 
 ProtVssors 
 
 opportunity, and in case tliat we, our heirs or succes-niustrweLve 
 sors, shall disapprove of any person so elected, and shall of the trowu. 
 cause such disapprobation to be notified to him under the 
 Koyal signet and sign manual, or through one of the 
 principal Se .I'ctaries of State, the person so elected as 
 aforesaid, shall immediately upon such notification, 
 cease to hold the office of Principal or Professor to 
 which he shall have been elected as aforesaid, and the (Governors 
 said Governors shall thereupon proceed to the election "'iMn''!,n\'i. 
 of another person to fill the office of such Principal or uiio'lvia! 
 Professor respectively, and so, from time to time, as 
 often as the case shall happen. 
 
 And we do by these presents, for us, our heirs and 
 successors, will, ordain and grant that the said Gover- Tho r.ov. 
 nors. Principal and Fellows, and their successors forc^'i'i'iuv k"i- 
 ever, shall be one distinct and separate body politic andirhoii/cor*^ 
 corporate in deed, and in word, by the name and style ]'Ztl\u \hIw. 
 of "The Governors, Principal and Fellows of McGilUlT,;;';! ^"" 
 
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 College, at Montreal, in the said Province of Lower 
 Canada," and that by the same name they shall have 
 perpetual succession and a common seal, and that they 
 and their successors shall, from time to time, have full 
 power to break, alter, make new, or change such com- 
 mon seal at their will and pleasure, and as shall be 
 found expedient, and that by the said name the said 
 Governors, Principal and Fellows, and their successors, 
 from time to time, and at all times hereafter, shall be a 
 body politic and corporate in deed and in law, and be 
 able and capable to have, take, receive, purchase, 
 acquire, hold, possess, enjoy and retain. 
 
 And we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, 
 
 give and grant full authority and free license to them 
 
 and their successors, by the name aforesaid, to have. 
 
 Authorized take, rcceivc and purchase, acquire, hold, possess, 
 
 perty Iff what 6"Joyj and retain to and for the use of the said College, 
 
 not*^ exceed^, notwithstanding any statutes or statute of mortmain, any 
 
 vi?u " ^"^'tho ^^^^^^5 rectories, advowsons, messuages, lands, tene- 
 
 ^^™ .g^"^*"^ j^ll ments, rents, hereditaments of what kind, nature, or 
 
 charges toq^jrjiity goevcr, SO as that the same do not exceed in 
 
 purchase and i- J ' 
 
 ^\cld'!' d b" J^^^^y value the sum of £6,000 above all charges; and, 
 
 i^^i'i-aded, morcover, to take, purchase, acquire, have, hold, enjoy, 
 
 receive, possess and retain, notwithstanding any such 
 
 statutes or statute to the contrary, all or any goods, 
 
 chattels, charitable and other contributions, gifts and 
 
 benefactions whatsoever; and that the said Governors, 
 
 Principal and Fellows, and their successors by the same 
 
 name, shall and may be able and capable in law to sue 
 
 and be sned, implead, and be impleaded, answer and be 
 
 answered in all and every court or courts of record or 
 
 places of judicature within our United Kingdom of 
 
 Great Britain and Ireland, and our said Province of 
 
 Lower Canada, and other our dominions, and in all and 
 
 singular actions, causes, pleas, suits, matters and 
 
 demands whatsoever, of what kind and nature and sort 
 
 soever, in as large, ample and beneficial manner and 
 
 form as any other body politic or corporate, or any other 
 
 &c. 
 
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 may or can have, take, purchase, receive, hold, possess, 
 enjoy, retain, sue, implead or answer, or be sued, 
 impleaded or answered in any manner whatsoever. 
 
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 successors, will, ordain and grant, that the (governors Govenn.rsto 
 
 of the said College, or the major part of them, shall tutes ami 
 have power and authority to frame and make statutes, objec't of 
 rules and ordinances touching and concerning the good tiltes ami 
 government of the said CoUefO, the performance of ej,*^" ^^^"^ 
 Divine Service therein, the studies, lectures, exercises 
 and degrees in arts and faculties and all matters regard- 
 ing the same, the election, qualification and residence of 
 the Principal, Professors, Fellows and Scholars, the sala- 
 ries, stipends and provisions for th^ Principal, Profes- 
 sor, Fellows and Scholars, and officers of the said College, 
 and touching and concerning any other matter or thing 
 which to them shall seem good, fit, useful and agreeable 
 to this our charter, provided that no such statutes, rules 
 and ordinances shall have any force or effect until 
 allowed and confirmed by us, our heirs or successors ; 
 and also from time to time to revoke, augment or alter 
 the same as to them, or the major part of them, shall 
 seem expedient, subject always to our allowance and 
 confirmation as aforesaid. — provided that the satd sta- 
 tutes, rules and ordinances, or any of them shall not be 
 repugnant to the laws and statutes of this our realm, and of 
 our said Province of Lower Canada. And we do hereby 
 for us, our heirs and successors, charge and command 
 that the statutes, rules and ordinances aforesaid, subject 
 to the said provisions, shall be strictly and inviolably 
 observed, kept and performed, so long as thoy shall 
 respectively remain in force and effect under the penal- 
 ties, to be thereby or therein inflicted or contained. 
 And we do by these presents, for us our heirs and succes- 
 sors, will, ordain, direct and appoint that the members of the lioyai 
 of the Royal Institution aforesaid, for the time being, vilatorV "of 
 shall be visitors of the said College. And we do fur- protenl'poru! 
 
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 ther will, ordain and grant, that the said College shall 
 
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 stmicnts ot Students in the said College shall have liberty and 
 
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 shiiii have li- facultv, of taking the degrees oi Bachelor, Master and 
 inp tiegreea, Doctor, in the scvoral arts and laculties at the appointed 
 arts and fa. timos, and shall have liberty within themselves of per- 
 forming scholastic exercises, for the conferring of such 
 degrees, in such manner as shall be directed by the 
 statutes, rules and ordinances of the said College. And 
 we do by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, 
 grant and declare that these our letters patent, or the 
 enrolments or exemplifications thereof shall and may be 
 good, firm and valid, sufficient and effectual in the law 
 according to the true intent and meaning of the same, 
 and shall be taken and construed and adjudged in the 
 most favourable and beneficial sense for the best advan- 
 tage of the said Governors, Principal, Fellows and 
 Scholars of the said College at Montreal aforesaid, as 
 well in all our courts of record, as elsewhere, and by 
 all and singular Judges, Justices, Officers, Ministers 
 and other subjects whatsoever, of us our heirs and 
 successors, any misrecital, nonrecital, omission, imper- 
 fection, defect, matter, cause or thing whatsoever to 
 the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding, 
 without fine or fee, great or small to be for the same in 
 any manner rendered, done or paid, to us in our hanaper 
 or elsewhere to our use. In witness thereof, we have 
 caused these our letters to be patent. — Witness ourself 
 at Westminster, the thirty-first day of March, in the 
 second year of our reign* 
 
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 STATUTES OF 3f GILL COLLEGE. 
 
 [URST. 
 
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 CHAPTER I. 
 Of the Corporation^ 
 
 1. The Corporation shall meet annually, on the day after 
 Commencement Day, and shall, at such meetings, inspect the Books 
 and accounts of the Registrar, Bursar and Secretary, and trans- 
 act all such business relative to the property of the University 
 as may be necessary. 
 
 2. Special meetings of the Corporation may be summoned 
 at any time, by the Governor General, the Chief Justice of 
 Montreal, or the Principal, not less than seven days notice of such 
 meeting being given through the Secretary. At all such 
 meetings the Governor present whose office is first described in 
 the Charter shall preside or have a double or casting vote. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 Of the Governors, 
 
 1. The Governors shall meet quarterly in the College, on the 
 fourth Wednesday in the months of March, June, September and 
 December, provided that if any such fourth Wednesday shall 
 fall upon a Holyday the meeting shall be deferred to the day 
 following. 
 
 2. Special meetings may be convened at any time by any 
 Governor, not less than seven days notice of such meeting being 
 given through the Secretary. At all such meetings, the Gover- 
 nor present, whose office is first described in order in the Charter, 
 shall preside and have a double or casting vote. 
 
 3. At all meetings of the Governors two shall make and 
 constitute a quorum for the transaction of such business as does 
 not require, under the Charter, the presence of a majority of the 
 Governors for the time being. 
 
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 CHAPTER III. 
 Of the Caput. 
 
 1. There shall be a weekly Board to consist of the Principal, 
 Vice Principal and Professors, to be called the Caput, of whom 
 three shall form a quorum for the transaction of business. 
 
 2. It shall be the duty pf the Caput to frame Rules and Regu- 
 lations as occasion may require, for the discipline, lectures, 
 studies, and internal government of the Lecturers, Scholars, 
 Students, Inferior Officers and other members of the College j to 
 make regulations regarding the expenses and system of living 
 within the College; to hear and determine all complaints for 
 breaches of such Rules and Regulations; provided always that no 
 persons shall be suspended or expelled without the consent of the 
 Governors, and that nothing herein contained shall have refer- 
 ence to the Lecturers in the Faculty of Medicine. 
 
 3. The Secretary of the College shall act as Secretary to the 
 Caput, and minutes of all their proceedings shall be preserved. 
 
 4. Supplications for degrees shall be addressed to the Caput, 
 and with the exception of Honorary degrees, no degree or 
 incorporation shall be allowed Avithout their consent. 
 
 5. Special meetings of the Caput may be called at any time, 
 by the Principal or Vice Principal, on the requisition of any 
 two of its members, not less than six hours notice of such 
 meeting being given through the Secretary. 
 
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 CHAPTER IV. 
 Of the Convocation. 
 
 \. The Convocation shall consist of 
 
 1. The Governors. 
 
 2. The Principal. 
 
 3. The Vice Principal. 
 
 4. The Professors. 
 
 5. The Lecturers of and above the rank of B. C. L. 
 
 6. Doctors of Divinity. 
 
 7. Doctors of Civil Law. 
 
 
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 lectures, 
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 gree or 
 
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 of any 
 
 lof such 
 
 8. Doctors of Medicine of five years standing from their 
 degree. 
 
 9. Bachelors of Divinity. 
 10. Masters of Arts. 
 
 Provided always, that no Graduate shall be a member of Con- 
 vocation, whose name shall not be standing Ion the books of the 
 University. 
 
 2. The Convocation shall meet four times in every term for 
 the purpose of conferring degrees; such meetings being regulated 
 by the Caput at their first meeting in each term. Notice of 
 these meetings shall be given by the Secretary to all members 
 of the Convocation resident within five miles of Montreal, and 
 also by advertisement in some one of the newspapers published in 
 Montreal. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Of the Principal. 
 
 The Principal shall preside at all Convocations for conferring 
 degrees, and shall have the general inspection and direction of 
 the internal affairs of the College, under such regulations as 
 may be in force for the time being. 
 
 CHAPTER Vi. 
 Of the Vice Principal. 
 
 1. The Governors shall appoint one of the Professors to bo 
 Vice Principal of the College; wlio shall retain his appointment 
 during tlieir pleasure. 
 
 2. The Vice Principal shall be resident in the College, and 
 during the non-residence of the Principal, shall be the Parent 
 and Guardian of the College household. In the absence of the 
 Principal he shall preside at all meetings of the Caput, and of 
 the Convocation. He shall examine Students for Matriculation; 
 maintain the observance of the Statutes by the Professors, Lec- 
 turers, Scholars, Students, Inferior Officers, and all other resi- 
 dent members of the College; enforce such observance by 
 admonitions and punishments; in graver cases, convening the 
 Caput. He shall direct the Students in their studies, promoting 
 
 
 
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 by all the means in his power, their progress in religion and 
 learning. He shall preside over tlie Collegiate exereises, and 
 regulate the Inferior OiRcers and servants of the College. 
 
 3. The salary and fees of the Vice Principal shall be regulated 
 and appointed by the Governors. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 Of the Professors^ Lecturers and Tutors. 
 
 1. The following Professorships shall be established: 
 a. Professor of Divinity. 
 
 h. Professor of Classical Literature. 
 
 c. Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. 
 
 d. Professor of Medicine. 
 
 2. It shall be competent for the Caput to appoint such Lectu- 
 rers and Tutors as shall be from time to time required, such 
 appointments being subject to the approval of the Governors, and 
 to continue during pleasure. The Principal shall appoint the 
 Registrar, Bursar and Secretary of the College, such appoint- 
 ment being likewise subject to the approval of the Governors, 
 and to be also held during pleasure. 
 
 3. Every Professor, Lecturer and Tutor, shall take the Oath 
 of Allegiance and of Office. 
 
 4. No Professor, Lecturer or Tutor shall teach in the College 
 any principles contrary to the doctrines of the United Church of 
 England and Ireland, or to the British Constitution. 
 
 5. Every Professor, Lecturer and Tutor shall have power to 
 punish by confinement and fine; the fine not to exceed five shil- 
 lings; the confinement not to exceed twelve hours. 
 
 6. The salaries, fees and perquisites of the Professors, Lectu- 
 rers and Tutors shall be determined and appointed by the 
 Governors. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Of the Registrar y Bursar and Secretary. 
 
 \, The Offices of Registrar, Bursar and Secretary shall be 
 united in one person, who shall be appointed as hereinbefore 
 mentioned. 
 
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 2. He must give security to the extent of one thousand pounds 
 current money of this Province, and must enter into Bonds with 
 the Corporation for the due fulfilment of his offices, and shall 
 receive and account for all monies and revenues of the Univer- 
 sity and College, from all sources derivable. He shall have 
 custody of the Charters, Records, and all other muniments of the 
 College, and the Matricula or Registry of the names of all the 
 members of the University and College. He shall be Secretary 
 to the Corporation, Governors and Caput, and enregister their 
 respective proceedings. He shall apply the funds in his charge 
 to the payment of salaries and other purposes according to the 
 Statutes and orders of the Governors. 
 
 3. He shall inspect the lands, buildings, and other property of 
 the Corporation, report the necessary repairs, or any extraordi- 
 nary expenditure, to the Governors, and superintend, under their 
 directions, the execution of such repair? and expenditure. 
 
 4. He shall submit a full statement of his accounts to the 
 Corporation at their annual meeting ; to the Governors at their 
 Quarterly Meetings, and to either at such other times as they 
 shall specially require it. He shall receive an annual salary, to 
 be fixed by the Governors. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Of the Steivard, Beadle and Gardener. 
 
 1. The Steward, Beadle and Gardener, shall be nominated by 
 the Principal, subject to the approval of the Governors, and remo- 
 vable at their pleasure, and shall be subject to such rules and 
 regulations as shall be from time to time agreed upon by the 
 Principal and Vice Principal. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 Of the RefectorT/. 
 
 1. The meals shall bo in such apartments of tlie College as 
 shall be determined by tlic Principal. 
 
 2. At meals there shall be a high table for the members of 
 Convocation, and Bachelors of Civil Law, Lecturers, Fellows 
 and Tutors. A second table for Bachelors of Arts, and Students 
 
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 in Law and Medicine, who have passed tlic examination for llie 
 degree ofBaclielors of Arts, or the "previous examination,*' and 
 others for Undergraduates. 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 Of College Dues and Fees. 
 
 1. The Principal and Vice Principal shall, as often as they 
 sec occasion, regulate the payments to be made to the University 
 and College, and several oilicers thereof, by Students and all 
 other members, save and except the Students in the Faculty of 
 Medicine, such regulations being always subject to the approval 
 of the Governors. 
 
 2. A table of these regulations shall be kept affixed in tluj 
 College Hall by the Registrar. 
 
 3. No payment shall be claimed by any officer, on any account 
 
 or pretence whatever, except such as shall bo stated in the said 
 
 tabic. 
 
 CHAPTER XII, 
 
 Of Matriculation. 
 
 1. No person shall be matriculated as a Student in the Faculty 
 of Arts without previous examination by the Vice Princii)al. 
 
 2. If a person be matriculated in vacation, the following term 
 shall be accounted as his first. 
 
 3. A Matricula shall be kept by the Registrar, in which all 
 those who are matriculated, save and except Students in the 
 Faculty of Medicine, shall subscribe their names to the declara- 
 tion that they will faithfully observe the Statutes, Rules and 
 Ordinances of the University; also a Register in which the 
 Registrar shall insert the Christian and surnames of all persons 
 admitted, with their ages, places of birth and education, and the 
 names and places of residence and rank of their parents or 
 guardians. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 Of Terms, Vacations and Ilolydays. 
 
 1. The Academical year shall begin on the first Wednesday 
 in September, and shall contain three Terms, in which all scho- 
 • lastic exercises shq,ll be performed. 
 
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 2. The first, or Micliuclmas Term, begins on the lirst "NWulncs- 
 (Jay in September, and ends on the twentieth of December. 
 
 The second or Lent Term, begins on the Wednesday nearest 
 to the seventh of January, and ends on the Saturday before 
 Pahn Sunday. 
 
 The third or Easter Term, begins on the Wednesday after 
 Easter Sunday, and ends on the day after Commencement Day, 
 which is always the third Wednesday in June. 
 
 3. On the first and last days of every Term, after Divine 
 Service in the College Chapel, or in the Protestant Episcoi)al 
 Parish Church of I\Ioiitreal, the Principal, or one of the Profes- 
 sors, Lecturers or Tutors, whomthePrineipalmayap[)oint, shall 
 preach a Sermon, all the members of the University, who have 
 jiot obtained a dispensation to the contrary, attending in the lull 
 dress Academical habits. 
 
 4. The llolydays and other public Festivals and Fasts 
 Appointed by competent authority, shall be duly observed. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 Of the Chapel. 
 
 Until that portion of the College, designed for a Chapel, be 
 erected, Divine Service shall be performed in some convenient 
 room in the College, to be selected by the Principal. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 Of Divine Service. 
 
 1. On every Sunday during Term, all the resident members of 
 the University, under the degree of B. C. L., who have not 
 obtained a dispensation to the contrary, shall attend the morning 
 service in the Protestant Episcopal Parish Church of Montreal. 
 On every day during Term, they shall attend morning and 
 evening prayer in the College Chapel, or apartments allotted for 
 that purpose. 
 
 2. Dispensations for non-attendance at Chapel and Church, will 
 be granted, on application to the Principal, to such members as 
 shall not be of the United Church of England and Ireland. 
 
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 3. The prayers in the College Chapel shall be said in rota- 
 tion, by such of the oificers of the College as shall be in Holy 
 Orders of the United Church of England and Ireland. 
 
 CIIAPTEll XVI. 
 
 Of hectares and Exercises, 
 
 The Lectures and Exercises, and the attendance of the Under- 
 graduates, shall be determined from time to time by the Caput. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 Of Degrees. 
 
 1 . No Student shall be admitted to the degree of Bachelor of 
 Arts, until he shall have kept by Academical residence, nine 
 Terms, and have passed the previous and final examinations. 
 
 2. Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, may present 
 themselves for the previous examination in their fourth, and for 
 the final examination in their tenth Term. 
 
 3. No person shall be admitted to the degree of Master of 
 Arts, until he shall have completed six years from the day of his 
 matriculation. He must produce certificates from the Registrar 
 of having taken the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and of having 
 passed such examination as shall be prescribed by the Caput. 
 
 4. No person shall be admitted to the degree of Bachelor of 
 Civil Law, until he shall have completed five years from the day 
 of his matriculation. Candidates for this degree, without 
 proceeding through Acts, must produce certificates from the 
 Registrar of their having kept twelve Terms by Academical 
 residence, of having passed the previous examination, which they 
 may not do until they shall have entered upon their seventh 
 term of Academical residence, and of having attended regularly 
 the Lectures in Civil Law. 
 
 5. Bachelors of Arts of two years standing may take the 
 degree of Bachelor of Civil Law, on producing certificates of 
 due attendance on the Lectures in Civil Law. 
 
 6. No person shall receive a license to become a Student of 
 Civil Law, until he have passed the previous examination. 
 
 7. No person shall be admitted to the degree of Doctor of 
 
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 Civil Law until ho ho of fifteen years standinj^, from the day of 
 his matriculation. He must produce ccrtificatos from the Repjis- 
 trar of liaving taken tlic degree of M. A., or li. C. L., of having 
 attended the Lectures in Civil Law, and of having f>crforrae(l 
 such other exercises as shall be appointi'd by the Caput. 
 
 8. No person shall bo admitted to the degree of liachclor of 
 Divinity, unless he be in full orders of the United Church of 
 England and Ireland, or of the Protestant Episcopal Church of 
 Scotland. All Candidates for this degree must produce certifi- 
 cates from the Registrar of iiaving completed twelve years from 
 the day of their matriculation. They shall perform such exer- 
 cises as shall be appointed by tiie Caput. 
 
 9. The degree of Dachelor of Divinity may be conferred on 
 Clergymen of the above mentioned Churches in full orders, pro- 
 vided that such Clergymen shall be persons of learning and 
 discretion, and shall have been ten years in Holy Orders, and 
 shall have satisfactorily undergone such examination as the Caput 
 may appoint. 
 
 10. No person shall be allowed to take the degrece of 
 Doctor in Divinity until he shall have completed sixteen years 
 from the day of his matriculation, and have previously taken the 
 degree of Bachelor of Divinity. Bachelors of Divinity of four 
 years standing may be admitted to this degree, and all candidates 
 shall perform such exercises as the Caput may appoint. 
 
 IL The Caput may allow the incorporation and admission to 
 the same, or a similar degree in this University, of Graduates of 
 any University in Her Majesty's dominions, who may desire 
 auch incorporation and admission, due enquiry being made as to 
 their moral character and sound learning; and provided always 
 that Clergymen, only of the United Church of England and 
 Ireland, and of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Scotland, 
 can be incorporated as Graduates in Divinity, and admitted to 
 the same degree in this University. 
 
 12. Graduates of foreign Universities may be incorporated 
 and admitted at the discretion of the Caput. 
 
 13. The Caput may permit the incorporation of Alumni from 
 any University in Her Majesty's dominions, to whom shall be 
 granted and allowed the same standing as that which they held 
 
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 in sucli TJnivGr«;ffv « a- n 
 
 »cin»,.o<,ucer''" '^'^''^'^^ '^'^nmcnto of such standing 
 H- Honorary dG«>rpna »« i. 
 
 Offlcers of the College. Jl„t su:h w ''"^'"" '^"^"^ »" 
 
 confer the ordinary „riviie^"'rr'"'''"'^*Srec3 shall not 
 
 J 5. All degrees sWlh'^ / """'''"' «''»'l«atcs. 
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 bcforethe<Ie^reei.,coufeCd! ^'"'' '° *'"' ««S'«tar 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 ^^'^lor^ Conduct and Discipline. 
 
 vcrsity .and Colkgrtollt'^! w'^''-''^ '^' '"""''"" "f ««= Uni- 
 2. No Underg^dua. r, ;t™"f "^ S-"^ "orals. 
 
 P'aee of publie amusement, wiho„toV"f ""^ "' ^'*^«™. » 
 Viee Principal. ' °"' '?'=<='»' Permission from the 
 
 3- No member of the Uniyersitv ,l,„ii 
 cples eontrury to Christian moralf ''™'""'="'"" ""^ ?««- 
 
 wi«.o„t the speeial P^StrCp ^^" "'"'-'^ ^' ■^^'^ 
 
 5. No member of the Pnii V ^ I^rineipal. 
 ;"j- the buildings, X r wLr V^^- - o«.-iso 
 property belonging to the Coll^;"""'"'^^' ''^"'^ "r any other 
 
 •;a™ po-S;;X!:ttt;i^ ""-^ ^"'-. ^^^^ 
 
 »n members of the College, «„de t^! f" ?'"''""'™'-^'»f 
 '• Juniors shall pay the res?,l, *"'''' "^ ^- C L. 
 
 P«blie and private, VtaklrS;'"^'" *'■'='■'• S»»rs, both in 
 
 "n-l by their „s„al modes of °f'' '"P^' giving place to them 
 8. Inferior Officers and n " ""'' "'"«'y- 
 
 -e -anired to payt;: ^itr °'*'^ ^"'""'''y "" College 
 
 9- A printed copy of L p , "' ^'='='"'-ers and Tutors 
 ««•■-> .>y t..o n.^Zt::^:^^'^ Capte, slJi be 
 
 J' i='t"eiy ot tlie Institution. 
 
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 ihapI':erxix. 
 
 Of Academical Dress. 
 
 1 . Tlie dress of all members of the University shall be plain, 
 decent and comely, without superfluous ornament. 
 
 2. The Academical habits shall be the same as those which 
 are worn in the University of Oxford, as they are appropriated 
 to each degree, rank, station and standing respectively, save and 
 cxcei)t that the Undergraduate Commoner's gown shall be the 
 same as tliat worn by the Oxford Scholars; and the Undergrad- 
 uate Scholars gown sliall be the same as tliat worn by the 
 Undergraduate Commoners of King's College, Toronto, and the 
 resident Students in Law and Med(icine, who have passed the 
 "previous examination," shall wear the same gown as that which 
 is worn by Bachelors of Arts in the University of Cambridge ; 
 the Students in Medicine Avearing a plain rose coloured silk 
 liood. 
 
 3. No member of the University shall appear at Chur.di, 
 Chapel, Lecture or Refectory, without his Academical habits, nor 
 without the College grounds, except by dispensation from the 
 Vice Principal. 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
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 Of Residence and keejying Term. 
 
 1. With reference to resident members, no Term shall be kept 
 or reckoned towards a degree, without Academical residence 
 during the whole Term, or at least three fourths of it, and such 
 Academical residence shall consist in boarding and lodging in 
 the College, in wearing the proper habit, in attending Divine 
 Service, Lectures and Classes, (unless a dispensation be granted to 
 the contrary,) in performing exercises, and in complying with 
 all the Academical regulations according to the Statutes. 
 
 2. "With reference to non-resident members keeping Term. 
 Academical residence shall consist of the same as prescribed in 
 the last Rule, with the exception of boarding and lodging in the 
 College. 
 
 3. The keeping of a Term may be disallowed by the Caput 
 
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 to any resident member for neglect of duty, for not paying the 
 College dues, or for contracting debts elsewhere. 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 Of Rank and' Precedence. 
 
 1. The Visitors. ^ 
 
 2. The Governors as their Offices are described in order in 
 the Charter. 
 
 3. The Principal. 
 
 4. The Vice Principal. 
 
 5. The Professor of Divinity. 
 
 6. The Professor of Classical Literature. 
 
 7. The Professor of Mathematics. 
 
 8. The Professor of Civil Law. 
 
 9. The Professor of Medicine. 
 
 10. The Lecturers according to the date of their appoint- 
 ments. 
 
 IL The Tutors according to the date of their appointments. 
 
 12. Doctors or Divinity. 
 
 13. Doctors; of Civil Law. 
 
 14. Doctors of Medicine. 
 
 15. Bachelors of Divinity. 
 
 16. Masters of Arts. 
 
 17. Bachelors of Civil Law. 
 
 18. Bachelors of Arts. 
 
 19. Students of Civil Law. 
 
 20. Students of Medicine. 
 
 21. Scholars. 
 
 22. Students. 
 
 Ratified and Signed the fourteeenth day of July, in the year of 
 our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, by 
 
 Vallieres de St. Real, 
 
 Chief Justice of Montreal ; 
 
 John B. Robinson, 
 
 Chief Justice of Upper Canada ; 
 John Bethune, 
 
 Principal of McGill College. 
 
 
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 ADDRESS 
 
 DELIVERED BY 
 
 THE PRINCIPAL OF M^GILL COLLEGE. 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen, 
 
 To the Governors of this College, whose persevering exer- 
 tions are now so far crowned with success, — to the learned pro- 
 fessions, and to the laity generally, — to all of the*?e, individually 
 and collectively, it must be a subject of the most hea/tfelt con- 
 gratulation that we are here assembled to witness the opening of 
 the first Institution, in this portion of the British Empire, which 
 is authorized to confer those literary honors and distinctions to 
 which it will, henceforward, be the privilege of our youth to 
 aspire. It is a subject of such deep and engrossing importance 
 as should unite us all in one undivided and unqualified 
 expression of most humble and hearty thanksgiving to Him, 
 who is the bountiful bestower of every good and perfect gift. 
 
 In virtue of the office which I have the honor to hold in 
 this University, the duty devolves upon me of setting forth, in 
 this public manner, the general principles upon which it is to be 
 conducted. But I beg to be permitted, previously, to occupy a 
 few minutes of your time in setting before you a concise history 
 of its rise, and of its progress to its present state. 
 
 The founder of this University was a highly respectable 
 merchant in this city, whose honorable industry and perseverance 
 in his calling had been crowned with an ample fortune. Desirous 
 
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 ofbostowing upon the country ot'liis adoption, — upon the country iu 
 which he iuul iiccumulatecl his wealth, some extensive and lasting 
 public benciit, he consulted his intimate friend and connexion by 
 marriage, the present Lord Bishop of Toronto, in the year 1810, 
 while on a visit to his Lordshii) at Cornwall, of which the Bisliop 
 was then Rector. To his Lordshi[), then, we are indebted for the 
 suggestion of founding this Institution in fullihnent of the desire 
 of Mr. IMcGill, to leave behind him a valuable and permanent 
 testimonial of his gratitude for the ample blessings which it had 
 pleased a kind and bountiful Providence to bestow upon him. JMr. 
 McGill, therefore, bequeathed this property, on which we are 
 now standing, then estimated to he worth £5,000, and the sum 
 of £10,000 in money, towards the erection and endowment of 
 an University. It was stipulated in his Will, that if the 
 University should consist of more than one College, one of the 
 Colleges should be called after his own name; and if it should 
 consist of only one College, then that one should have the like 
 denomination. The bequest was made in favour of four Trus- 
 tees, of whom the Bishop of Toronto was one, to be transferred 
 by them, for the purposes intended, to the Board of the Koyal 
 Institution for the advancement of Learning, so soon as it should 
 be constituted in virtue of the Provincial Statute, passed in 1801, 
 authorizing the Governor of Lower Canada to constitute that 
 Board. Mr. McGill died in 1813, but the Board of the Koyal 
 Institution for the advancement of Learning was not constituted 
 until the year 1819, when the Trustees duly invested them with 
 the becpiest in conformity with the AVill of the Testator. It 
 was one condition of the Will that the bequesi should remain in 
 the enjoyment of tlie residuary legatee for a limited period, and 
 that unless the University was erected within ten years from 
 the death of the Testator, the becjuest should revert to that 
 residuary legatee. Tiic Board of the Royal Institution therefore 
 lost no time in applying to the residuary legatee to be put into 
 possession of t)ie bequest, in order to tiie fulfilment of their 
 trust, but they were unhappily met by a refusal to comply with 
 the wishes of the benevolent Testator, (who, it may be hero 
 remarked, was the legatee's own most munificent benefactor, ) on 
 the ground that the Tc?;tator could not legally devise any por- 
 
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 fusal was a long course of litigation, protracted through a period 
 of 16 or 17 years, a circumstance which suiliciently accounts 
 for the delay which has occurred in bringing tlie wislics of the 
 founder into effect. In the mean time the Board of the Royal 
 Institution procured the erection of tlie University by a Royal 
 Charter, granted by His late Majesty George the Fourth, in the 
 year 1821, — a course of proceeding which was sustained in our 
 Courts of law as removing the difRculty which might have 
 otherwise arisen with respect to a compliance with the condition 
 that the University should be erected witliin the time specified 
 by tlie Testator, until they could obtain possession of the means 
 devised for a more literal fulfilment of his design. 
 
 A single glance at the Will of the lute Mr. McGill must con- 
 vince any Avho are at all conversant with our Provincial history, 
 tliat he must have had in his view the prospect of a rich endow- 
 ment of Seminaries of Learning in this Province by the Crown. 
 It is impossible to suppose tliat a person of the late Mr. McGill's 
 intelligence and connexion with Provincial public affairs should 
 not have been aware of the fact that His late Majesty George 
 the Third had connnunicated to the Governor of Lower Canada, 
 in tlie year 1801, his Royal desire that His Excellency and the 
 Executive Council should take up the subject of extensive grants 
 of land for the purposes of education, — ar.d that a report had been 
 subsequently made to the Secretary of State favourable to exten- 
 sive endowments cf Schools and Colleges in this section of 
 Canada — one of the last at (Quebec and one at Montreal — and 
 moreover that this report was favourably entertained by His 
 Majesty, and orders sent to this country to carry it into effect. 
 It is impossible to suppose that when jMr. McGill made his Will 
 he was unacquainted with these facts — indeed his Will directly 
 points to them — because he made his bequest in aid of the 
 erection and maintenance of a College at IMontreal — evidently 
 pointing to the one which he supposed would be endowed by 
 Government in this city, to the extent of twenty thousan<l 
 pounds. It is deeply to be lamented that those enlarged and 
 l)enevolent views of his late most gracious Majesty of pious 
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 deplored — and it is natural enough for us, at this day, to ask 
 why they were not carried into eflfect — especially when we see 
 that in that portion of this Province which was then called 
 Upper Canada,tliose views have been fully accomplished. It is at 
 least very easy to discern the cause of this last result — it was 
 the active, unabated zeal and untiring exertions of the Bishop 
 of Toronto. Is it not then reasonable to suppose that a similar 
 zeal and similar exertions on the part of those in this section of 
 the Province, whose duty it was to attend to this most important 
 matter, would have been crowned with the like success ? We 
 cannot take upon ourselves to say that such zeal did not exist 
 — that such exertions were not made — but we can and will say 
 that we have no evidence of either. Of one thing, however, we 
 are quite certain, namely, that not one acre of public land, not 
 one farthing of the public money has been bestowed, in the way 
 of endowment, upon this Institution — and the consequence has 
 been that it has the character of a College of private foundation, 
 depending solely upon the resources of that foundation, 
 and upon such aid as may from year to year be granted by the 
 Legislature. It is then precisely in the same position, with 
 respect to the public, as the Roman Catholic Colleges in this 
 section of the Province, and as the Church of Scotland and Meth- 
 odist Colleges in Canada "West. They are of private foundation 
 and so is this ; — If, therefore, the Legislature grants assistance to 
 each of those Colleges, whose management is exclusively in the 
 handseachof itsown denomination, and are of an exclusively reli- 
 gious character — we may, a fortiori, expect to receive aid to the 
 same amount, at least. With these preliminary observations, I 
 proceed to develope the general principles upon which this 
 University is to be conducted. 
 
 The Charter which has been read, it is almost superfluous to 
 say, is the authority by which its rulers must be guided — the 
 law and the testimony to which they must appeal — that Charter 
 which was granted by the Sovereign to the petition of those into 
 whose hands the bequest was temporarily intrusted. The frst 
 provision in the Charter is for inculcating the principles of true 
 religion. The very first question then, which presented itself 
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 character of the Institution. Had the Charter been silent upon 
 this subject, it might in that case, in these days of mawkish lib- 
 erality, have become a question of policy whether the University 
 miglit not be more popular, and more likely to receive general 
 as well as legislative support, as a mere seminary of in- 
 struction in the arts and sciences, if it were divested of all 
 religious character. I am grieved to say that, in tlie present 
 temper and feelings of a portion of the inhabitants of Canada, 
 I fear this would be the case. I fear that to secure the cordial 
 good wishes of a considerable body of professing Christians, it 
 would be necessary, anomalous as it may appear, to decree that 
 Christian teaching and Christian worship must be excluded from 
 the walls of this University : — For, to satisfy all parties in this 
 respect, we have to choose one of only two alternatives. We 
 must allow every one of the almost countless sects into which 
 the Christian family is unhappily divided, to have its represen- 
 tative religious teacher and its daily worship within these walls, 
 or we must banish from its precincts even the sound of the 
 name of that God "in whom we live and move and have our 
 being." I trust there is good sense enough left among us to 
 enable every one to see, at a single glance, that the first of these 
 alternatives cannot be entertained. For not to enlarge upon 
 the distracting effects of such a system upon the minds of the 
 youth who may be congregated here, or upon its inevitable ten- 
 dency to scepticism and infidelity, a simple calculation will shew 
 its utter impracticability in operation. There are now, within 
 the small compass of this city alone, to say nothing of the whole 
 Province, not less than ten different sects of Christians. If we 
 suppose each of these to have a Professorship of Theology estab- 
 lished here, we should then require for this faculty alone, nearly 
 three times the whole number of Professorships which are allowed 
 by the Charter. But if we suppose this difficulty surmounted, 
 each of these ten sects must have its morning and evening service, 
 occupying at least ten hours, or some two hours more in each day, 
 than is usually devoted to instruction altogether, in all the arts and 
 faculties, — or are we to have ten separate chapels within these walls 
 in which the worship of God is to be simultaneously celebrated ? 
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 buiishing all religious instruction, all religious worsliip, from 
 the walls of the University; that of permitting, it may bo, 
 some hundreds of our youth to be congregated here in a 
 state of Heathenism — nay, worse, than this, (for the Heathen 
 would not suffer the worship of their Gods to be excluded 
 from such an Institution,) in a state of absolute Atheism, 
 for any thing that they should be permitted to be taught hereto 
 the contrary, — And is it come to this ^ Is this the boasted libe- 
 rality of the 19th century, v/hich leads professing Christians to 
 say that they cannot unite in the support of a seminary of 
 learning, where a child should be trained up in the way in which 
 he should go, unless that seminary be based upon a principle 
 which would be spurned by those Heathen whose darkness it is 
 the earnest and laboured desire of the same Christians to dissi- 
 pate! If example be more powerful in its effects than precept, 
 I should like to knoAV how it would do to tell the Heathen, while 
 we are setting before them the doctrine of salvation throuiih 
 Christ, that it is necessary to exclude the teaching of that 
 doctrine from our chief seminaries of learning, because the mode 
 of doing so might be offensive to some? — Well indeed may we 
 here unite in prayer to God, that having " built his Church upon 
 the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ him- 
 s. if being the chief corner stone, he would grant to us to be so 
 joined together in unity of spirit, by their doctrine, that we may 
 be made an holy temple, acceptable unto Him. through Jesus 
 Christ our Lord." 
 
 I appeal to you fathers — I appeal to you pious mothers, 
 whose chief delight it is to teach the inftmt tongue to lisp the 
 praises of its God, and while they are still fresh as it were from 
 lie hand of their Creator, uncontaminated by the corruptions, 
 untouched by the ambitions and unclouded by the cares of the 
 world, to imbue their young minds with the love of their Saviour 
 at the time when they are most susceptible of those impressions 
 which are most pure and most lovely — to lead them to the con- 
 templation of the glories of his resplendent path upon earth, of 
 his sufferings and of his sacrifice, until they love him even as 
 he hath loved us. I appeal to you whether you would be will- 
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 more exj^osed to the temptations of sin, to b(; inmates of an 
 establishment whence you knew that the teaching of that reli- 
 gion, and the worship of that God, and of that Saviour were 
 banished ; — and where, finding all their time, their talents and 
 their energies devoted to the cultivation of the arts and facul- 
 ties, they must naturally infer that the one thing needful which 
 their rr.othcrs taught them to believe, is only ideal — since the 
 wise and learned men under whose care and instruction they are 
 now placed, and who are goading them on to the acquisition of 
 all the knowledge which they consider to be most useful and 
 valuable, have never spoken of that one thing needful, of that 
 jewel of inestimable price, for the purchase of which their pious 
 mothers had taught them they should sell, if need be, even the 
 whole world if it were theirs. 
 
 I shall not urge this argument farther — to say all that might 
 be said on the iubject would occupy far more of the time of this 
 meeting than any one individual could be allowed to take up. 
 But enough I trust has been said to show that, even if the Char- 
 ter of this Institution had been silent on the subject, the Gov- 
 ernors could not, consistently with the due discharge of the trust 
 reposed in them, have consented to divest it of all religious 
 character. In a word, that must be a sound principle of human 
 action which bases all human proceedings upon religion. 
 
 Much stress, I am aware, is attempted to be laid upon the cir- 
 cumstance, that no mention is made, in the Will of the founder 
 of this Institution, of instruction in the principles of religion, 
 but only of " education and the advancement of learning," and 
 it is inferred that he did not consequently contemplate any pre- 
 ference in favour of any particular denomination of Christians. 
 But this I must take leave to say is not a legitimate conclusion 
 from the premises; for Mr. McGill either considered religious 
 instruction to be included in " education," or he did not. If he 
 did not, as it is contended, then we must conclude that, by the 
 mere provisions of his Will in this respect, no religious instruc- 
 tion of any description could be given in this University. But 
 if we bear in mind that when Mr. McGill made his Will, a Uni- 
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 dominions; — the experiment of such a scheme was reserved for 
 a much later period — an experiment wliieh has proved a signal 
 failure — the fair conclusion tlien is that the founder of this 
 University did consider religion to be included in " education." 
 But if we admit for a moment, the supposition that he did not 
 so consider it, how would the question be affected by such a 
 hypothesis? It must be admitted, on all hands, that the inten- 
 tions of the testator could not have been carried into effect in the 
 establishment of an University, without a Charter making pro- 
 vision for the manner and form, and for the regulations under 
 which it must be conducted. If, then, it had been clearly set 
 forth by the founder, that no rehgion was to be taught in the 
 contemplated University, it would follow that no part of his 
 bequest could be legally appropriated under a Charter which 
 prescribed " instruction in the principles of true religion." This 
 University must therefore fall to the ground, and the money of 
 the testator applied by his trustees under that Charter must be 
 refunded. This would be a consummation which I apprehend 
 none of those who pretend so to interpret the Will of the late 
 Mr. McGill, would desire to see. But how stand the facts in 
 this case? The testator bequeathed land and money to a corpo- 
 rate body, called " The Royal Institution for the advancement 
 of Learning," in trust, to be applied by that body towards the 
 erecting and maintaining an University " in such manner and 
 form, and under such regulations as the said Royal Institution 
 for the advancement of Learning shall in this behalf prescribe." 
 Here, then, is the most ample declaration of the testator with 
 respect to the manner and form and the re^w/a/ww* under which 
 it was his desire that the contemplated University should be 
 conducted. He leaves this absolutely to the Royal Institution to 
 settle, and to no one else. And what was the action of the 
 Royal Institution " in this behalf?" They applied for, obtained 
 and accepted a Royal Charter, which makes provision for " the 
 manner and form," and for " the regulations" under which the 
 University is to be conducted. Under this Charter, then, it is 
 incontestible, and under no other authority can the bequest of 
 the late Mr. McGill be legally applied towards the maintenance 
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 :s intrusted, by this Charter, among other objects, the framing 
 of the " regulations'* under which it is to be conducted, know no 
 other authority than that Charter. And when they looked into 
 that Cluirter, and saw that tlic very first object to which it 
 points is "the education of youth in the principles of true 
 religion," they felt that under no circumstances could they be 
 justified in making no provision for such instruction; and when 
 they farther found it enjoined Uj^on them to make provision, 
 among other object?, for " the performance of Divine Service 
 therein," they could not feel a moment's hesitation in giving 
 to the University a religious character; — and they have no ditli- 
 culty in avowing that they had sincere pleasure in finding that 
 they could, with perfect unanimity, discharge tlieir duty in a 
 manner so much in accordance with their own desires. 
 
 This importarit point being settled, the next thing to be 
 considered was, of course, the nature of that religious character 
 and the form of Divine Service to be established. They could 
 not entertain the idea, for reasons already stated, of more than 
 one system of religious instruction, or of more than one form of 
 Divine Worship ; and to guide them in their selection they had 
 again recourse to the authority under which they were acting, 
 to the law and the testimony to which they v/cre bound to 
 appeal. In the Charter, they are free to admit they found no 
 positive instruction, in direct terms, on the subject. But they 
 could draw no other legitimate inference from the declaration of 
 the Royal pleasure that this University was designed " for the 
 instruction of youth in the principles of true religion," than this, 
 that the Sovereign could have meant by " true religion " none 
 other than the particular form with which he was himself in 
 communion, and which he was bound, by the most solemn obli- 
 gation to maintain. — And with regard to the views of the founder 
 of the Institution on the same subj ect, although there does not appear 
 to be any thing in his Will, which positively settles the point 
 beyond all question; yet it is well known, that he lived and died 
 in the same faith as that which was professed by his Sovereign, 
 — that he proposed to name a Clergyman of the Church of Eng- 
 land, in his Will, as the first President of the College; but the 
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 wouUl not consent to do ; and tliat h(i selected as Trustees of his 
 beciucst, luitil the lioard of the lloyal Institution shouhl be con- 
 stituted, persons who were all members of the Church of Eng- 
 land, save one who was oiui of his oldest and most intimate friends. 
 It appeared then that, in the absence of any positive instruction 
 on tiie subject, the United Church of England and Ireland had 
 a very strong claim to the distinction of being selected as the 
 peculiar form of doctrine and worship to be established in this 
 University. It is ecpially clear that there is not the slightest 
 foundation, either in tiie Charter or in the Will or in the circum- 
 stances of the founder, for such a claim on the part of any other 
 denomination ; and the Governors therefore felt that they could 
 not err in giving the preference to that which had a strouf/ claim, 
 overthosewho hadno claim atoll; — a strong claim whicli receives 
 much additional force from the fact that the members of the Church 
 of England both in this city and in the whole of this section of the 
 Province, arc not only more numerous tlian any one other deno- 
 mination of Protestants, but, according to the last census, more 
 numerous than the whole united body of all others within the same 
 bounds who are distinguished by the same general designation. 
 A Divinity professorship, therefore, of the Church of England 
 has been established by the statutes, and provision has been made 
 for the performance of Divine Service in the University, accord- 
 ing to the form and discipline of the same Church, leaving it 
 optional with those of other denominations to absent themselves 
 from the services. In this particular, the (rovernorscan consci- 
 entiously aver that they have faithfully and fearlessly discharged 
 the most important of the duties entrusted to them, — faith- 
 fully in accordance with the authority under wliich they were 
 acting, and fearlessly as to any possible consc([uences. For how- 
 ever deeply they should deplore any such dissatisfaction as may 
 lead those who conscientiously differ to withdraw their counten- 
 ance and support from the University, they would have much 
 more deeply felt the well merited obloquy of shrinking, under 
 the fear of man, from the performance of a sacred duty to God. 
 But they hope for better things from their fclloAv subjects of all 
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 reflection, feel neither jealousy nor alarm in the provision which 
 has been made in favour of the Cliurcli of England in an Univer- 
 sity wlioso founder was of its own communion, in an University 
 whose portals arc fiun;^ widely open to all of them, and the freest 
 and most unfettered access aftbrded them to all the offices and 
 all the advantages and honors in every art and faculty, save 
 that one which is allotted to the members of one Church alone 
 — the Faculty of Divinity. And they, moreover, confidently 
 indulge the hope, a hope founded on the soundest principles of 
 justice, that "tlie powers that be" can have no hesitation in 
 granting aid to an Institution which admits all, without distinc- 
 tion of creed, to a free participation, without test or subscription, 
 in all the advantages to be derived from the knowledge of the 
 arts, and of the faculties of Law and Medicine, merely because 
 the faculty of Divinity is open to the Church of P^ngland alone, 
 and her forms of worship and discipline therein established, 
 while the same powers have dispensed and are still dispensing 
 aid with a liberal hand to other Seminaries of learning, in which 
 the distinctive denominational character is far more strongly 
 marked, and exclusively maintained. But should it please those 
 powers to act otherwise, and to deal less justly with the Church 
 of England than with other denominations of their fellow sub- 
 jects, we shall not regret the course we have taken, but rest in 
 the full assurance of that support which a kind Providence will 
 not fail to bestow. The path of rectitude and duty is the path 
 of safety. 
 
 A Professorship has been established in the faculty of 
 Medicine with a competent number of Lectureships in its various 
 branches. And the Governors entertain a strong hope of being 
 enabled shortly to establish a Professorship in the faculty of 
 Law. In ^''v A.rts, Professorships of Classical Literature and of 
 the Matluj, ..tics and Natural Philosophy have been established, 
 and to all of these appointments have been made, with the 
 exception of the Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, for which 
 no application had been received which could be favourably enter- 
 tained by the Governors. They have therefore entrusted the 
 selection of a Professor in this branch of the Arts, to two com- 
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 The University therefore opens with Professorships of 
 Divinity, Medicine, Classical Literature, and Mathematics and 
 Natural Philosophy, with five Lectureships in the various bran- 
 ches of the Faculty of Medicine; and we hope soon to add Lec- 
 tureships in Rhetoric and Logic, and in History and Geography. 
 While the Governors deeply regret that the very limited means 
 at their disposal has prevented them from doing more, they are 
 not without the prospect of increased revenues and a consequent 
 enlarged sphere of action at no very distant period. And it 
 gives them sincere pleasure to announce that, in the impartial 
 discharge of their duty, their selections have happened to fall 
 upon persons of four difierent denominations of Christians — a 
 circumstance which affords a sufficient guarantee that no im- 
 pediment exists to the attainment of the offices of this Univer- 
 sity on the ground of differences in religious belief. The Go- 
 vernors also feel much satisfaction in being enabled to say that 
 a proposal, on the part of the subscribers to the High School in 
 this city, for a junction with this University, has been accepted 
 on terms satisfactory to all parties — so that that Institution may 
 now be considered as a preparatory school to this University, 
 while it preserves its distinctive character of independence under 
 a joint Board of Directors appointed by the subscribers to the 
 school, and by the Governors of the College. — This happy 
 arrangement, while it has the much desired effect of uniting 
 parties in the interests of education, secures to the University a 
 constant, and it is hoped an unfailing supply of well prepared 
 students. 
 
 It is under these circumstances that we launch our infant 
 Institution upon the world; and though it may be now but as that 
 " little cloud like a man's hand," which appeared upon the horizon 
 at the bidding of the prophet, let us pray and let us trust that 
 the blessing of a kind and protecting Providence will cause it to 
 spread and gather strength, like that little cloud, until its bene- 
 fits descend upon our land in copious and refreshing showers of 
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