Under an act of the Illinois legislature, incorporating the city of
Nauvoo, the following provisions are found:--
"Sec. 24. The city council may establish and organize an institution
of learning within the limits of the city, for the teaching of the
arts, sciences, and learned professions, to be called the
'University of the city of Nauvoo,' which institution shall be under
the control and management of a board of trustees, consisting of a
chancellor, registrar, and twenty-three regents, which board shall
thereafter be a body corporate and politic, with perpetual
succession, by the name of the chancellor and regents of the
university of the city of Nauvoo, * * * provided that the trustees
shall at all times be appointed by the city council, and shall have
all the powers and privileges for the advancement of the cause of
education, which appertain to the trustees of any other college or
university of this state."