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 APPENDIX 479 3. The management of said corporation shall be vested in a board of twenty-one trustees, who shall be elected as follows: At the first annual meeting there shall be elected by ballot twenty-one trustees. The trustees so elected shall, at their first meeting, classify them- selves by lot into three classes of equal number, which classes shall be desig- nated as the first, second, and third class; and the term of office of the first class shall expire at the second annual meeting, and the terms of office of the other classes shall expire annually thereafter in the order of their numbers. At each annual meeting succeeding the first, seven trustees shall be elected by the trustees by ballot. Vacancies occurring by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise shall be filled for the unexpired term by the board at its first meeting after the vacancy occurs, and the member elected shall belong to the class in which the vacancy occurred. The qualifications of the trustees and president of the university and of its college, which shall constitute its literary or undergraduate department, shall be as follows: At all times two-thirds of the trustees, and also the president of the uni- versity and of its said college, shall be members of regular Baptist churches that is to say, members of churches of that denomination of Protestant Chris- tians now usually known and recognized under the name of the regular Baptist denomination ; and as contributions of money and property have been and are being solicited and have been and are being made upon the conditions last named, this charter shall not be amended or changed at any time hereafter so as to abrogate or modify the qualifications of two-thirds of the trustees and the president above mentioned, but in this particular this charter shall be forever unalterable. No other test or particular religious profession shall ever be held as a requisite for election to said board, or for admission to said university, or to any department belonging thereto, or which shall be under the supervision or control of this corporation, or for election to any professorship, or any place of honor or emolument in said corporation, or in any of its departments or insti- tutions of learning. The membership of this corporation shall consist of the several persons who for the time being shall be acting as trustees, and they shall annually elect trustees to fill the places of those whose terms of office shall expire at the annual meeting. Persons not members of the corporation shall be eligible to election, subject only to the qualifications hereinbefore mentioned. The board of trustees may make by-laws not inconsistent with the terms of this charter, or with the laws of this state, or of the United States, for the government and control of said corporation, and of its several departments, and of the several institutions of learning under its care and control, and for the proper management of the educational, fiscal, and other affairs of said corpora- tion, and for the care and investment of all moneys and property belonging to it, or given or intrusted to the said corporation for educational purposes.