AN ACT

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That R.W. Shawan, Wm. H. Gibson, H. Shaull, Wm. Barrick, H. St. John, J.W. Wilson, Lewis Baltzell, Robert Crum, Frederick Mahl, Dennis C. Stoner, Jacob Kroh, S.B. Leiter, D. Kemmerer, H.K. Baines, J.H. Good, G.W. Williard, E.V. Gerhart, Jesse Steiner, and their associates and successors forever, be and are hereby created a body corporate and politic, for the promotion of religion, morality and learning, by the name and style of Heidelberg College.

Sec. 2. The corporation hereby created may take by purchase, or otherwise, and hold all real and personal estate which may be necessary to and proper for the advancement of its objects, not to exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars in value, and shall enjoy and exercise all the rights, powers and incidents, and be subject to all the responsibilities usual to corporations of a similar nature in the State of Ohio.

Sec. 3. The persons named in the first section of this act, shall constitute the Board of Trustees of said corporation, until their successors are respectively appointed and qualified; and eight members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

Sec. 4. The Board of Trustees shall elect from their own number, a President and Secretary of the board, and such other officers as may be necessary to carry out the objects of the corporation, and prescribe their duties and powers, and their terms of office respectively.

John F. Norse,
Speaker of the House of Representatives

Charles C. Converse,
Speaker of the Senate
February 13, 1851
-- from Appendix A, Heidelberg: Democratic Christian College 1850-1950 by E.I.F. Williams