SCHOOLS, COLLEGES OR UNIVERSITIES
1. The General Conference or any Annual Conference or Conferences of the
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America shall have the right to
establish and maintain, Schools, Colleges or Universities for
educational purposes, which shall at all times be under control and
subject to the Discipline, usage and ministerial appointments of this
Church as now exist, or as from time to time authorized and declared by
said General, or Annual Conference or Conferences, providing no
additional schools, colleges or university shall be created without the
consent of the Educational Board after June first, 1914.
2. The Schools, Colleges or Universities established, or maintained by
the General, or Annual Conference or Conferences of the Colored
Methodist Episcopal Church in America shall be managed, operated or
conducted by a Board of Trustees of which the Bishop of this Church in
charge of the Annual Conference in whose bounds the same is located
shall be President; which Board shall consist of not less than three nor
more than ————; who shall be ministers of the Gospel or laymen of this
Church in good standing and who shall, at all times, be amenable to and
subject to removal by the General, Annual Conference or Conferences
appointing them; said Trustees to be elected and held in accordance with
the laws of the State or Territory in which the School, College or
University, for which they were elected, is located in case of such
laws, but if none then in accordance with such rules as may be
prescribed by the General or Annual Conference, or Conferences
appointing them.
3. The Trustees of any school, college or university may, or shall, when
authorized or directed by the General, or Annual Conference or
Conferences of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America
establishing or maintaining the same or appointing them, incorporate
under the laws of the State or Territory in which it may be located,
such corporation, however, to be under control of said Church and the
Trustees thereof, of either, officers to be elected, to be appointed or
elected by the General or Annual Conference in whose bounds any school
or college is located. The President to be subject or amenable thereto
at all times and may be removed by the same at any time.
4. The Board of Trustees, of which the Bishop in charge of the Annual
Conference is located is President, shall appoint or elect such officers
and teachers for same as are necessary and proper and as are usually had
by like institutions, such officers, however, to be subject to rejection
or removal by the General or Annual Conference or Conferences,
establishing or maintaining such Schools, Colleges or Universities.
5. The Board of Trustees of which the Bishop in charge of the Annual
Conference in which any school, college or university is located shall
be President, conducting or operating any school, college or university
established or maintained by the General or Annual Conference or
Conferences of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America shall
make all necessary and proper rules and regulations for governing the
same, subject, however, to the rejection or revision of such General or
Annual Conference or Conferences at any time, and may grant diplomas to
students thereof who have pursued the prescribed course of study and
confer degrees of every nature as are usually conferred by like
institutions.
6. The Board of Trustees may acquire by purchase or gift, necessary land
and erect necessary buildings thereon and purchase the necessary
equipment for any School, College or University, operated by them for
the General or Annual Conference or Conferences, and to this end
contract indebtedness and borrow money and pledge or mortgage any
property held by them for the use of or benefit of the General
Conference or Annual Conference or Conferences establishing and
maintaining such, provided, however, that no property held by said
trustees, shall be pledged or mortgaged without the indorsement in
writing on the instrument pledging or mortgaging the same, of the Bishop
in charge of the Annual Conference in whose bounds such School, College
or University is located, which shall be witnessed or acknowledged by
him in accordance with the law of the State or Territory in which said
property is located.
7. The Trustees of any School, College, or University established or
maintained by the General, Annual Conference or Conferences of the
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America may acquire by purchase
and hold, or receive by gift or bequest and hold real, mixed or personal
property and hold in action for the use and benefit of said Church for
educational purposes in connection with and for the benefits of such
School, College, or University as an endowment or for any legitimate
purposes of the same.
8. All deeds of conveyance or any property conveyed for the General or
Annual Conference or Conferences of the Colored Methodist Church in
America for educational purposes shall have the following clause
inserted in the proper place "In trust that said premises shall be used,
kept, maintained and disposed of for educational purposes for the
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America; subject to the usage, and
ministerial appointments of said Church, as from time to time authorized
and declared by the General Conference of said Church and the Annual
Conference or Conferences operating and maintaining such school, College
or University."
9. The Trustees of any property belonging to any school, College or
University of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America, with
the consent of any Bishop of this Church in charge of the Annual
Conference in whose bounds such property is located, which is to be
indorsed upon the deed of conveyance in writing and acknowledged as
deeds are acknowledged in the State or Territory in which such property
is located shall have power to sell or dispose of the same when it is no
longer necessary for such purposes or when it is deemed best or
expedient but shall hold and use the proceeds thereof for such School,
College or University, or of the General or Annual Conference or
Conferences establishing or maintaining the same to be turned over to
such whenever directed.
10. The Treasurer or Custodian of any money or negotiable instruments
belonging to any School, College or University operated or maintained by
the General Conference or Annual Conference or Conferences shall be
required by the Trustees thereof to give adequate bond for the faithful
performance of his duties as such and for the proper accounting for and
deliverance or payment to the persons authorized to be paid by said
Trustees of all such money or negotiable instruments so held.
11. All Schools, Colleges or Universities established, or which are now
being maintained and operated, by the General Conference or any Annual
Conference or Conferences of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in
America and all property held for the use and benefit of, or subject to
the Discipline, usage and ministerial appointments of said Church, come
under the operation hereof and shall be governed hereby and the Trustees
thereof shall have all the authority and powers herein conferred, except
where the same may be restricted, by law, or by Charter, or by
instrument conveying property so as to prevent this chapter from
becoming effective, and all Trustees of such, wherever it can reasonably
be done are hereby directed, required, authorized and empowered to take
such steps and adopt such measure as is necessary to bring into effect
this Chapter.