RELEASE OF LAND IN THE TOWNSHIP OF

NORBURY.

This Indenture made the Seventh Day of April in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy four BETWEEN his Excellency William Tryon Esquire Governor in chief in and over the Province of New York in AMERICA of the one Part and the Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in AMERICA of the other Part Witnesseth That his said Excellency William Tryon for the Esteem which he bears to the said College and from a Desire of advancing as well the Interests thereof as to promote and extend its Usefullness in disseminating the Principles of Virtue, Literature and Loyalty and also for and in Consideration of the Sum of Five Shillings of lawful Money of the Province of New York to him in Hand paid by the said Parties of the second Part the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged HATH granted aliened released conveyed and confirmed and by these Presents DOTH clearly and absolutely grant alien release convey and confirm unto the said Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in America (in their actual Possession now being by Virtue of a Lease to them thereof made for one whole Year by Indenture bearing Date the Day next before the Day of the Date of these Presents and by Force of the Statute for Transferring Uses into Possession) and to their Successors and Assigns for ever All that certain Tract or Parcel of Land situate lying and being in the County of Gloucester in the Province of New York being the Northwesterly part of a certain Tract of Land containing Thirty Thousand Acres and the several Allowances for Highways granted unto Samuel Chandler and others by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Province of New York bearing Date the Fourteenth Day of April in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy two and erected into a Township by the name of NORBURY The same Tract or Parcel of Land by these Presents intended to be granted Beginning at the Most Westerly

Corner of the Township of Norbury thence running along the Southwesterly Bounds of the said Township South Sixty Degrees East Two hundred and Twenty Chains, thence North Thirty Degrees East to the northeasterly Bounds of the said Township Thence along the last mentioned Bounds North Sixty Degrees West to the most northerly Corner of the said Township Thence along the Northwesterly Bounds of the said Township to the Place of Beginning above mentioned containing Ten Thousand Acres of Land and the usual Allowance for Highways TOGETHER with all and singular the Emoluments and Hereditaments and Appurtenances to the same and every part and parcel thereof belonging or in anywise appertaining And the Reversion and Reversions Remainder and Remainders Rents Issues and Profits thereof and of every Part and Parcel thereof with their and every of their Appurtenances and also all the Estate Right, Title, Interest, Claim and Demand whatsoever in Law and Equity of him the said William Tryon of in and to the same and to every Part and Parcel thereof with the Appurtenances to have and to hold all and singular the said Tract of Ten Thousand Acres of Land and the usual Allowance for Highways and other the Premises hereby granted and every Part and Parcel thereof with their and every of their Appurtenances unto the said Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in AMERICA and their Successors and Assigns for Ever To the only proper Use and Behoof of the said Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in AMERICA and their Successors and Assigns for Ever To the End and Purpose and upon this special Trust and Confidence nevertheless that they the said Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in AMERICA and their Successors for ever Whether the said Corporation shall continue to be called by the Name or Title aforesaid or by any other Name or Stile whatsoever do and shall well and faithfully grant in Fee Farm or from Time to Time demise and let the Lands hereby granted for such Term and Terms of Years and to such Person or Persons in such Parts and Parcels and on such Terms Conditions and Rents as they shall judge most advantageous for increasing the annual Profits

thereof to the said Corporation and that they and their Successors from Time to Time when and as the Rents Issues and ** Profits aforesaid shall become sufficient for the Support and Maintenance thereof do establish One or more Professorship or Professorships of and in the said Seminary in such Branch or Branches of Literature as to the said Corporation shall seem expedient and that they from Time to Time increase the Number of Professorships as the Funds which shall arise from the said Lands as aforesaid shall become capable of decently supporting the Professor so to be appointed And upon this further especial Trust and Confidence that the said Corporation from Time to Time do well and faithfully apply in Stipends to such Professor or Professors all and singular the clear Rents Issues and Profits aforesaid after deducting the necessary Costs Charges and Expences attending the Management or Preservation of the said Lands and Premises hereby granted and all other Charges and Expences which the said Corporation shall in any manner become liable to pay for or on Account of the said Lands and Premises. Always provided that when at any Time or Times hereafter the clear annual Rents Issues and Profits aforesaid shall in the Judgment of the said Corporation be more than sufficient to support any certain Number of Professorships and not sufficient to support one more Professorship that it shall be lawful for them to retain such Overplus and put the same at Interest for the Increase of the said Fund the same Interest to be nevertheless applied together with the Annual Overplus aforesaid (when the same shall be sufficient) for the Support of another Professorship ALL and Singular which said Professors to be appointed by the said Corporation in Manner and Form as other Professors in the said Seminary are directed to be appointed by the present Charter of the said Corporation or in such other Manner and Form as Professors in the said Seminary shall or may be hereafter directed to be appointed by any other Charter or Charters hereafter to be granted to the said Corporation and subject to all and singular the Regulations Rules and Orders which the said Corporation already hath or shall from Time to Time think fit to make for the Regulation of their Professors in general or for the particular Regulation and Government of the Professors to be supported as aforesaid The

said Professors when established according to the true Intent and Meaning of these Presents to be severally called and known by the Name of TRYONIAN PROFESSORS the first Professor so to be appointed to be a Professor of the municipal Laws of England.

In witness whereof his said Excellency has to one part of these Presents set his Hand and Seal and to the other part thereof the said Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in AMERICA have caused their Common Seal to be affixed the Day and Year first above written.

(Endorsed)

Wм. (seal) TRYON.

SEALED AND DELIVERED in the Presence of Line Sixteen the Words and Assigns wrote on Razure and Line Seventeen a Rasure filled up and Line Twenty five the word not interlined

PETER OGILVIE

WM. BANYAR.

Charters of Alumni Associations.

ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI OF COLUMBIA

COLLEGE.

AN ACT TO INCORPORATE "THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE."

PASSED MAY 21ST, 1874.

LAWS OF 1874, CHAPTER 520.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Henry Drisler, Frederic De Peyster, J. Howard Van Amringe, Charles R. Swords, Henry James Anderson, William Mitchell, George P. Quackenbos, Charles A. Silliman, William H. Butterworth, Joseph B. Lawrence, Henry R. Beekman, William Bayard Cutting, James McNamee, James M. Brady, Seth Low, and Stuyvesant Fish, at present forming the officers and standing committee of "The Association of the Alumni of Columbia College," together with such other persons as appear to be members of that association on the books of the treasurer of the same, and not to be in arrears more than two years for dues, and also with such other persons as shall hereafter become members of the corporation hereby created in such manner and upon such terms as shall be prescribed in the constitution or by-laws of such corporation, are hereby constituted and created a body corporate and politic in fact and in name by the name of "THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE," for the purposes mentioned in this act; and by that name they, and their successors and associates, shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable in law of suing and being sued, and of receiving, purchasing, holding, conveying, leasing, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of any real and personal estate for the use and benefit of said corporation, which estate shall not exceed the net annual income of twenty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. The object of this corporation shall be to perpetuate the friendships and relations arising during the course of study