L A W S 
 
 OF THE ^f^te ^^a^^ 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF 
 
 jaorti?=Caroitna: 
 
 ESTABLISHED BY THE 
 
 BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 
 
 AT THEIR SESSION IN DECEMBER, 
 
 1799- 
 
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 RALEIGH; 
 
 FRINTED BY J, GALES, 
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 LAWS 
 
 O F T HE 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH-CAROLINA. 
 
 SECTION I. 
 Of the Faculty. 
 
 1. The Faculty of the Univerfity of North* 
 Carolina {hall be compofed of the Prefident, 
 Profeflors and Tutors, a majority of whom 
 being aflembled after due notice given by the 
 Prefident, or prefiding Profeflbr, to all the 
 members, fhall be competent to the per- 
 formance of bufmefs. 
 
 2. Every matter brought before the Faculty', 
 mail be decided by votes, and it (hall be the 
 additional privilege of the Prefident, or pre^ 
 (iding Pro fe (Tor, to give a calling vote, where 
 there would otherwife be a tie. 
 
 3. The opinion or voteof any member of the 
 Faculty fhall not be made known to the flu- 
 dents, diretlly or indirectly, except when 
 exprefs order (hall be given to that effect by 
 an unanimous vote of the Faculty. 
 
 4. A member of the Faculty fhall not be a. 
 , fitting member of any fociety of ftudents, nor 
 i fhali he ever be prefent at the meetings of a 
 
 fociety. 
 
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 £. It fliall be the duty of each member of 
 the Faculty to enforce the laws of the Uni- 
 verfity, to prevent or put a flop to the violation 
 of them, and to report to the Prefident, or to 
 the Faculty, fuch tranfgreffions of them as 
 ought to be punifhed by that body. 
 
 6. The Faculty fliall keep a book of re- 
 cords, or minutes, and appoint a clerk, who 
 ihall enter, therein a fair flatement of their 
 tranfa£lions, refolutions and determinations ; 
 which book (hall be laid before the Tiuftees 
 at each of their dated meetings. The clerk 
 of the Faculty* (hall be allowed a compenfation 
 for his fervices. 
 
 7. No aft bf the Faculty which is not recorded 
 bylheir order fhall be confidered as valid. 
 
 8. There fhall be monthly meetings of the 
 Faculty, at which every Profeffor and Tutor 
 ihall make a report on the conduct and fcho- 
 larfhip of the fludents, and particularly of 
 thofe who are under his charge. And the 
 opinions which the Faculty fhall thenJorm, 
 ihall be regiflered in a book kept by them for 
 that purpofe, which fliall be a hiflory of the 
 character and fcholarfhip of every fludent to 
 his parent or guardian, and to the Truftees. 
 
 9. The Prefident fhall read or fay public 
 prayers every evening, in the Chapel, at five 
 o'clock, except on Saturday evening, and in 
 
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 his abfence, one of the ProfeiTors cr Tutors, 
 (hall perform that duty. In the morning, 
 prayers mail follow after the reading of a 
 chapter, or part thereof, in the Old or New 
 Teilament, by the ProfeiTors and Tutors in 
 turn. 
 
 SECTION II. 
 
 Of Admifjion in the Univerfity. 
 
 1. All examinations for admiflion into the 
 Univerfity, {hall be in prefence of the Faculty ; 
 and no perfon (hall be admitted but by a vote 
 taken by them for that purpofe after his exa- 
 mination, 
 
 2. Every perfon, on admiflion into the 
 Univerfity, (hall pay the Steward's demand, 
 and the tuition money for the feflion, in 
 advance. 
 
 3. If a ftudent (hall arrive to begin bufinefs 
 before the feflion fhall be half expired, fas 
 fhall pay for the whole feflion ; but if he fhall 
 come at the middle of a feflion, or after it, he 
 fhall pay for half the feflion only: but room- 
 rent (hall always be paid for the whole feflion. 
 
 4. Every ftudent, on being admitted into 
 the Univerfity, fnall obtain a copy of the 
 laws from the Pi efident or prefiding ProfefTor^ 
 containing a certificate, with the nume of the 
 Prefident, or prefiding Profeffor, figned by 
 
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 himfelf, of the faid fludent's regular admiffion 
 into the Univerfity, for which he ihall pay 
 twelve and a half cents; and thefe fhall be at 
 all times a fufficient, and a necefTary teftimony 
 of his being a fludent of the Univerfity; to be 
 fhewn when called for, to any member of the 
 Faculty. 
 
 SECTION III. 
 
 Collegiate Duties and Rcftridions. 
 
 i. The hours of fludy fhall be from the 
 time of morning prayers til! eight o'clock, 
 from nine till twelve in the forenoon, and 
 from two till five in the afternoon ; and at all 
 other times the ftudents fhall obferve a proper 
 filence and a refpe£tiul deportment. 
 
 2. Every fludent fhall regularly and punc- 
 tually attend the recitation of his clafs at the 
 place appointed by his inflru&or, and at the 
 time when the bell fhall be rung to give him 
 notice. His Profeffor or Tutor fhall call him 
 to an account for abfence or delay, in the 
 prefence of his clafs, and fhall be the judge 
 of hisexcufe; and if a good reafon be not 
 fhewn for his delinquency, he may be ordered 
 at any time before the Faculty to anfwer for it. 
 
 3. The progrefs of a diligent fludent fhall 
 not be retarded by the indolence of others of 
 the fame clafs; therefore no one fhall be re- 
 
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 quired againft his inclination to continue the 
 fhidy of any book on which he has palled an 
 approved examination; but after a ftudent has 
 entered a clafs, or a courfe of fiudy, at the 
 beginning of the feiTion, he ihall not, without 
 completing the fame, forfake it to enter ano- 
 ther during that feflion, unlefs with parti- 
 cular permiffion from the Faculty. 
 
 4. For the improvement of the ftudents in 
 public fpeaking, two or more of them fhali 
 each deliver an oration of their own fele£ling 
 every evening immediately, after prayers, on 
 the flage in the public hall; and to this duty 
 they mail be called in alphabetical rotation, 
 that all may have the benefit of this exercife; 
 nor (hall any ftudent be exempted from it, 
 except on account of natural impediments, or 
 other difqualifications, of which the Faculty 
 or Prefident may judge. 
 
 5. On Saturday forenoon, all the ftudents 
 (hall recite grammar or paffages in the Latin 
 or Greek dailies, or read pieces of their own 
 compofition, as the Faculty fhall conceive to 
 be moll ufeful ; and Englifh Grammar fhall 
 invariably be a fubje£f on which every clafs fhall 
 be examined at every femi-annual examination. 
 
 6. There ihall be one public examination 
 in each year ; which fhall commence on the 
 2 2d of June annually, unlefs that day fhall 
 happen on Sunday. 
 
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 7. Should any Undent be abfent from exa- 
 mination, he may be fummoned before the 
 Faculty to fheiv the reafons of fuch abfence;: 
 and he fhall be examined publicly by the Fa- 
 culty before he (hall be permitted tojoin his clafs* 
 
 8. No ftudent (hall abfent himfelf from the 
 Univerfity during the feffion,. without per- 
 mifTion firft obtained from the Prefident, or 
 in his abfence, from the Faculty; but leave of 
 ab fence from recitation may be granted to 1 
 fludent by his Profeilbr or Tutor. 
 
 9. If any ftudent Giall be habitually indo- 
 lent or inattentive to bufmefs, or (nail be abfent 
 from prayers, from recitation, or public wor- 
 fhip, or at any othei time when it fhall be his 
 duty to attend, he (hall be puniflied according 
 to the aggravation of his offence. 
 
 10. If a ftudent, at an examination, be 
 found deficient, he may be publicly mentioned 
 as a bad fcholar by the Faculty or Tru flees, 
 admonifhed to greater diligence, or put into 
 fuch a clafs as ihall fuit his [landing. 
 
 It. On the day of commencement, the 
 candidates for degrees fhall perform fuch ex- 
 ercifes as Chdli be appointed them, and no 
 candidate fhall refufe the exercife afligned 
 him, underpenalty of being refufed his diploma. 
 
 12. N -thing indecent, profane or immoral, 
 lhall at any time be delivered on the public 
 
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 ftage, under penalty of fuch cenfure as the 
 
 Faculty or Truflees fliall judge proper. And 
 with a view to preferve all the public exercifes 
 of the ftudents from impropriety of any kind, 
 every ftudent, during the whole of his fenior 
 year, and previoufly to his commencement 
 performances efpecially, fhall fhew to the 
 Prefident, or prefiding ProfefTor, the whole of 
 what he propofes to fpeak, and fhall not fail 
 to obferve fuch corrections as (hall be made of 
 his performances ;• and if any ftudent pro- 
 nounce any thing in public of a cenfurable 
 nature, in contradiction to the directions or 
 corrections of the officer to whom he has fhewn 
 his piece, the Prefident or prefiding Profeflbr 
 is requred to flop him on the public flage, and 
 he fhall be otherwife cenfured as the Truftees 
 or Faculty fhall determine. 
 
 13. There fhall be a Monitor to each clafs, or 
 to as many claffes together as the Faculty fhall 
 find convenient, who fhall mark theabfentees 
 from prayers, or from public worfhip on Sun- 
 day, and who fhall alfo note all pro fane fvvearing 
 or grofs and vulgar language, and prefent an 
 account of thofe who offend to the Prefident or 
 prefiding Profeffor at prayers on Monday even- 
 ing. If any Monitor fhall fail in performing 
 thefe duties, he fliall be confidered as betraying 
 the trufl confided to him in the Univerfi'y. 
 
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 SECTION IV,. 
 
 On the moral and religious Conduct of the Students,. 
 
 and their ConduB towards the Faculty, 
 
 1. Every ftudent, whether in the College 
 or in the village, fhall attend public prayers 
 morning and evening in the Chapel, and 
 during the worfhip, fhall refrain from all noife, 
 conducting himfelf with fuch decorum and: 
 reverence as is fuited to thefe folemn fervices.. 
 
 J^ On Sunday it (hall be the duty of every flu-. 
 I dent to be prefent at the reading or delivery 
 of a fermon in the Chapel, at the hour ap- 
 pointed by the Faculty for that purpofe. No 
 whifpering, talking, laughing, or indecent be- 
 haviour of any kind, fhall be manifefled or* 
 fuch occafions. 
 
 2. The lludents fhall attend fuch inftruc- 
 tions in morals and religion,,, as their ProfefTors. 
 and Tutors, or the Faculty jointly, fhall ap- 
 point on Sunday. And if any ftudent abfcnt 
 himfelf, or evade fuch inftruclions, or conduct 
 himfelf indecently while attending them, he 
 mall be punifhed by his inftruclion, or by the 
 Faculty, ac cording to the nature of his offence,, 
 due regard being paid in this as well as in all. 
 other cafes to the rules hereafter prefcribed, 
 pointing out the different degrees or. grades of 
 punifhment which the Faculty fhall be at, 
 liberty to inflicl.. 
 
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 3- At all times the ftudents fhall conduct 
 and exprefs themfelves refpeclfully towards 
 the Faculty, and towards every member of it. 
 And any deficiency in thefe refpecls fhall be 
 confidered as effential departures from the 
 laws and principles on which the inflitution 
 is founded, and by which it mull be governed, 
 and they fhall be punifhed accordingly. 
 
 4. No infult fhall be offered by a ft udent, or 
 by any number of fludents, to the people of 
 the village or of the country around the Uni- 
 verfity, or of any other place. No attack 
 fhall be made upon property to its injury or 
 *deftru£Hon, or in any way to deprive the 
 owner of his exclufive and rightful ufe of it. 
 But if any fludent fhall commit depredations 
 ordeftructive attacks upon property, on com- 
 plaint being made to the Faculty by the owner, 
 or by any.other perfon, and on fuch proof 
 being adduced as fhall be fatisfaftory to the 
 Faculty again ft the ftudent accufed, he and the 
 owner," with the confent of the latter, fhall 
 each choofean indifferent perfon, not belonging 
 to the Univerfity, and the Faculty fh<dl choofe 
 a third, who may eftimate the damage done. 
 And the author of the mifchief fhall be com- 
 pelled to pay the owner according to fuch efti- 
 mation ; and to pay one fhilling to each of the 
 perfons chofen as above, and the receipt of 
 
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 each ofthefe (hall be produced to the Prefident, 
 or to the Faculty, in three days after the award 
 fhall have taken place. If the fludent (hall re- 
 fufe to comply, the Faculty {hall punifh him as 
 they may judge proper. But if this method 
 fhall not be purfued, the Faculty may choofe 
 any other which thefe laws allow for the 
 punifhment of the fludent who fhall have 
 offended. * 
 
 5. No fludent who does not live in the 
 village, fhall go into it on any account in 
 ftudy hours without leave from the Prefident 
 or fome member of the Faculty. 
 
 6. A fludent fhall not make horfe races, 
 nor bet thereon, nor fhall they keep cocks or 
 fowls of any kind, or for any purpofe. 
 
 7. No fludent fhall raffle, play at cards or 
 dice, or bet at any game, without being pu- 
 nifhed by the Faculty according to the aggra- 
 vation of the offence. 
 
 8. No fludent fhall keep a dog or fire-arms ; 
 nor fhall he ufe fire-arms without permiffion 
 from fome one of the Faculty. 
 
 9. No fludent fhall have fpirituous liquors 
 in his room without particular permiffion 
 from the Prefident, or from fome member of 
 the Faculty. 
 
 10. Every fludent who fhall be guilty of 
 intoxication, fhall receive an admonition be- 
 
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 fore the Faculty for the firfl offence, and on 
 
 repetition of the crime, (hall be publicly ad- 
 monifhed or fufpended, according to the na- 
 ture and aggravation of his conduct. 
 
 11. If a lludent (hall be called on to give 
 information beforethe Faculty concerning his 
 fellow ftudent, and (hall refufe to give fuch in- 
 formation, he (hall be admoni (bed or fufpended. 
 
 12. Should a combination ever be formed 
 by any number of the fludents to tranfgrefs 
 the laws, or to prevent their execution, or to 
 fhew difrefpeft to the Faculty, or to any one 
 of its members, or to introduce diforder in any 
 fhape, the Faculty (hall either punifh the 
 whole body according to their demerits, or 
 they fhall feleft: fuch as appear to be raoft ac- 
 tive and forward, as the fole objects of punifh- 
 ment. The Faculty fhall choofe either of thefe 
 methods as to them fhall appear mo ft expe- 
 dient. 
 
 13. All fwearing, and profane, blafphemous 
 or impious language, fhall be utterly ex- 
 cluded from the Univerfity. The ftudent 
 who fhall be guilty of thefe practices, and on 
 being warned to forfake them, fhall ftill per- 
 fevere, fhall be admonifhed, fufpended or ex- 
 pelled, according to the extent of his offence. 
 
 14. On Sunday the ftudents fhall refrain 
 from their ordinary diveifions and exercifes. 
 
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They (hall not fifh, hunt or fwim ; nor fhafi 
 they walk far abroad. They (hall perform no 
 manual or corporal labours, but fuch as are afcr 
 folutely neceflary, unlefs they (hall obtain per- 
 million from the Prefident, or from fome 
 member of the Faculty, 
 
 i^. If any fludent fhall ufe any indecent 
 gefture or language to any other fludent or 
 perfon, he fhall be liable to be admonifhed. 
 
 16. If any fludent fhall be convicted of 
 lying, he fhall be admonifhed: if lie fhall be 
 guilty of direct and malicious falfehood, he 
 fhall be fufpended or expelled, according to 
 the nature of the offence. 
 
 17. If any fludent, on being requefled by 
 any member of the Faculty to open the door 
 of the chamber in which he fhall be, and fhall 
 jciufe or delay to comply, the door may be 
 forced open, and the fludent compelled to 
 make good the damage, arid be otherwife pu- 
 nifhed as the Faculty fhall judge proper. 
 
 18. If any fludent fhall be fent for by a 
 member of the Faculty, and ihall fail to come, 
 he fhall be held guilty of a high contempt of 
 authority, and be punifhed accordingly. 
 
 19. The fludents fhall keep their rooms 
 clean, and fhall not put or procure to he in- 
 troduced into the College, filth of any kind. 
 .Nor fliall they throw o.n the outfideof the •Col- 
 

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 lege, againft the walls or within twenty yards 
 thereof, any fort of dirt or filth, under the 
 penalty, (befides removing the fame) of fuch 
 cenfure as the offence may deferve. 
 
 SECTION V. 
 
 On Punijhments. 
 
 The punifhments common to the eftablim-* 
 ment, and to the preparatory fchool, 1 hall be, 
 
 1. Private admonition by a member oi the 
 Faculty. 
 
 2. Admonition before the Facuhy by the 
 Prefident, or, inhisabfence, by any oneof their 
 members whom the Faculty (hall appoint. 
 
 3. Admonition before the clafs to which 
 the ftudent belongs, by the Prefident, or, in 
 his abfence, by one of the members of the 
 Faculty. 
 
 4. Public admonition before all theitudentSo 
 
 5. A public confeffion of the fault com- 
 mitted before all the ftudents, followed by an 
 admonition from the Prefident, or from one 
 of the Profefibrs or Tutors. 
 
 6. Sufpenfion for a fixed time, not ex- 
 ceeding fix months. 
 
 j. Sufpenfion for a fixed time, not exceeding 
 fix months, and admonition before theTru (tees, 
 
 8, Expulfion; which punifhment fhall not 
 be inflicted but with the approbation of five 
 Truftees convened for that purpofe. 
 
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 9. Befides the punifhments already men- 
 tioned, the Tutors of the preparatory fchool, 
 with the approbation of the Prefident, or pre- 
 fi ding Pro feffor, exprefsly given, and in every 
 inflance fpecially had, may inflict corporal 
 •chailifement on the fcholars of that fchool. 
 
 SECTION VI. 
 
 Mifccllaneous Regulations. 
 j. If any fludent fhall wifh to live inaroom 
 in the College during the vacation, it fhall be 
 considered that he pledges himfelf totheTruf- 
 tees that he will not do any damage to his room, 
 or tothe buildings, without makingreparation. 
 
 2. The ftudents, on leaving their rooms at 
 the beginning of the vacation, or at any other 
 time during its continuance, fhall put the keys 
 of their chambers into the hands of the fleward, 
 or of fome member of the Faculty. 
 
 3. Should all the members of the Faculty be 
 abfent from the Univerfity in the time of the 
 vacation, the Prefident, or prefiding Profeffor, 
 is hereby empowered to employ fome perfon 
 to take care of the buildings, whofe duty it fhall 
 be to prevent them frombeing injnred. 
 
 4. It is recommended to the ftudents to be 
 plain in their drefs, but it is required of them 
 always to appear neat and cleanly ; and if any 
 fludent fhall be grofsly negligent in ihis ref- 
 
peel, it fliall be the duty of the College offi- 
 cers to admonifh him for it, and fee that he 
 preferve a decent appearance. 
 
 5. Should a ftudent not be prefent at the 
 Univerfity on the firft day of a feflion, he 
 fhall forfeit the title he had to any room he 
 may have inhabited the preceding feflion, and 
 fuch room may be occupied by any ftudent 
 or ftudents who fhall be prefent at fuch time. 
 
 6. No ftudent, without permiflion obtained 
 from the Prefident, or prefidingProfeffor, fliall 
 build or retain a hut, for any purpofe what- 
 ever ; nor fhall he go out of fight of the build- 
 ings of the Univerfity, or out of hearing of the 
 bell in ftudy hours, or at any other time when. 
 the bell may call him to his duty, without par- 
 ticular permiflion. from fome member, of the 
 Faculty,. 
 
 7. If the Faculty fhall judge any houfe in< 
 the village improper for the reception of 
 boarders, on account of the irregular manner 
 in which they are permitted to live, or on ac- 
 count of the diforderly and pernicious ex- 
 amples that are fet before them, they fliall 
 make report of fuch their opinion to the 
 Truftees, at their annual or femi-annual meet- 
 ing, to the end they may take order thereon. 
 
 8. No ftudent on the eftablimment fhall be 
 permitted to live out of College, till each of 
 
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 tlxe rooms lhall have four inhabitants. And if 
 ■Any fludent, before the rooms are thus filled, 
 fhall lodge and diet in the village, he fhall be 
 compelled to take his place in College. But 
 if a ftudent fhall produce to the Faculty, a 
 certificate from a phyfician, which fhall be 
 fatisfacfory to them, that his flate of health is 
 fuch as to require peculiar diet, the Faculty 
 may permit him to board in the village, al- 
 though the rooms in College fliall not be filled. 
 
 q. At the ringing of the bell the firft time 
 in the morning, all the ftudents fhall rife. As 
 foon as the bell fliall ring a fecond time, they 
 fhall repair to the hall without delay, and 
 attend prayers. 
 
 10 A ftudent fliall not wear his hat infide 
 of the College buildings. 
 
 11. If damage fliall be done to any room in 
 College, the inhabitants of the room fhall 
 make it good, unlefs they can prove to the 
 Faculty that fuch damage has been done by 
 fome other, in which cafe, he again ft whom 
 the proof is made, fliall make good the damage. 
 
 12. If damage fhall be done to any other 
 part of the buildings of the Univerflty, not 
 within a room, the perfon doing fuch damage 
 fliall make it good. 
 
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 SECTION VII. 
 
 Of the Dining Room. 
 
 1. At the ringing of the bell for dinner, 
 breakfaft and flipper, the fludents (hall go 
 peaceably to the door of the dining-room 
 where they (hall regularly arrange themfelves 
 in their feveral dalles, each clafs giving the 
 precedence to the one next above it, and in 
 this manner they fhall wait five minutes, if 
 neceifary, for a Profeffor or Tutor. 
 
 2. The fludents fhall fit in their feveral 
 claiTes at the tables, according to the order 
 which the Faculty (hall appoint, and (hall be- 
 have themfelves with decorum, carefully ob- 
 ferving all the regulations which the Faculty 
 fhall make for their decent and proper beha- 
 viour. Any officer of College attending at 
 the dining-table, (hall have full power to fend 
 out of the dining-room, any fludentwho (hall 
 behave in any refpeel; indecently or improperly. 
 
 3. If any victuals fhall be found on the table, 
 againfl which a fludent fhall think himfelf en- 
 titled to complain, and if he fhall refolve to 
 make complaint, he fhall fend the victuals to 
 one of the ProfefTors or Tutors prefent, who 
 fhall order them to be taken away from the 
 tables, if they be not.fuch as, in his opinion, 
 they ought to be. But if the complaint {hall 
 appear to be wantonly and unneceffarily made, 
 
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 the plate (hall be returned, and the perfcn- 
 who fent it may be reprimanded. 
 
 4. After the fludents (hall have arrived at 
 their places around the tables, the prefiding 
 Profeffor or Tutor (hall afk a blefiing before 
 they take their feats, and when the pre Tiding 
 Profeffor or Tutor lhall rife for the difmiffion 
 of the fludents, they (hall defift from eating, 
 and alfo rife; and they (hall ftand in their 
 places till the Profeffor or Tutor fhall return 
 thanks, after which they (hall pafs out of the 
 room without bu file or noife. 
 
 5. A ftudent fhall not take his feat after the 
 blefTing is pronounced, without particular per- 
 miflion from the prefiding Profeffor or Tutor, 
 nor fhall any one go out of the room till the 
 general difmiffion without permifhon from 
 the fame officer. 
 
 Certificate of Admifiion. 
 I certify, that was regularly- 
 
 admitted a ftudent of the Univerfity of North- 
 Carolina, on the day of 
 in the year of our Lord 
 Signed, 
 
 SECTION VIII. 
 
 Of the Library and Librarian. 
 I. There (hall be a room appropriated to the 
 library, apparatus and turiofitics of the Urji- 
 
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 verfity. Shelves fhall be put up in it, at the 
 expence of the Board. Fire fhall be made 
 and kept up in the room once every week for 
 two hours, by order of the Librarian, and then 
 be entirely extinguished. And no pcrfon but 
 aTruftee, or member of the Faculty, fhall be 
 admitted into the room of the library, without 
 the prefence of the Librarian; but either of 
 thefe (hall be admitted whenever they require it» 
 
 2. The Librarian fhall be appointed by the 
 Faculty every half year, who fhall make areport 
 to them as often on the flate of the library. He 
 fhall alfo account to the Treafurer of the Board 
 for the monies he has received as Librarian. 
 
 3. Every ftudent on the eftablifhment of 
 the Univerfity, may ufe the books of the li- 
 brary on paying fifty cents into the hands of 
 the Librarian, for the feflion in advance. The 
 Encyclopaedia fhall not be taken out of the li- 
 brary, by any ftudent not belonging to the 
 fenior or junior clafTes ; and no other fhall 
 ever confult them, except in the prefence of 
 fome member of the Faculty. 
 
 4. The Librarian, when he delivers a book 
 out of the library to a ftudent, fhall write a 
 receipt for the book, which fhall be figned by 
 the ftudent who takes it out. 
 
 5. A volume not be kept out of the library 
 more than three weeks, without being returned 
 
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 to the Librarian, and the receipt of it renewed. 
 And if any other perfon (hall want the vo- 
 lume at the end of that time, the perfon who 
 has before had it, fhall not be at liberty to take 
 it out again at that time. 
 
 6. If a ftudent, who (hall take a volume 
 from the library, fhall by any means deface 
 or abufe it, he fhall pay according to the da- 
 mage done, as ellimated by the Faculty, even 
 to the replacing of the fet; and if he fhall 
 iofe it, he fhall pay the Librarian for it the 
 price at which the Faculty fhall value the fet, 
 or elfe he fhall replace the whole as before. 
 If he fhall not return it in three weeks after 
 taking it out of the library, he may be deemed 
 to have loft it, and the Faculty may proceed 
 accordingly. If the fludent fhail refufe to> 
 comply with the decifions of the Faculty, he 
 ihall be admonifhed, fufpended or expelled,, 
 as the nature of the cafe may require. 
 
 7. The Librarian fhall keep a book, in which 
 he fhall have a catalogue of all the books of the 
 library. And if any book {hall be prefented 
 to the Univerfiry, the name and place of re- 
 fidence of the donor fhall be recorded. 
 
 8. The Librarian fhall appoint a day and 
 hour forgiving books out of the library, and 
 he fhall attend once a week at the time ap- 
 pointed, for that purpofe. 
 
9. If books be hired from the library, 
 -the price to be paid mail be fixed by the Fa- 
 culty, and the perfon who obtains the book 
 ihall pay in advance. 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 3n #rtrtnance 
 
 Appointing Vijitors of the Univerfity, 
 
 Whereas between the teachers and flu. 
 ^ents of the Univerfity of North-Carolina, 
 and between them and officers of faid Uni- 
 verfity, controvcrfy may hereafter arife, and 
 a competent authority to fettle the fame is 
 proper to be efiablimed, 
 
 Be it therefore ordained, That fix members 
 of the Board of Truftees, exclufive of the 
 Prefident, who (hall always be confidered as 
 one, be appointed Vifitors of the Univerfity. 
 
 And be it further ordained, That on com- 
 plaint made to the Prefident, by any teacher 
 ox officer of the Univerfity, or fludent (whofe 
 
H 
 complaint fhall always have been made to the 
 Faculty in the fir ft inftance) the faid Vifitors, 
 or any three of them, if the complaint mall 
 be deemed worthy of enquiry, fhall have 
 power and authority, and they are hereby 
 authorized to hear and determine, on vifi- 
 tations to faid Univerfity, all fuch complaints 
 and controverfies; and their judgment, fen- 
 tence or decree thereon, fhall be decifive, 
 until the general Board of Truflees fhall 
 otherwife direct and deteimine: Provided, 
 That nothing herein contained, fhall afFecl 
 the powers of the Faculty to punifh, agreeably 
 to the laws of the Univerfity. 
 
 And b tit further ordained, That the Vi- 
 ctors of the Univerfity fhall be appointed by 
 ballot, at each annual meeting of the Board 
 of Truflees. 
 
 BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, Prejident, : 
 
 W. E. Webb, Secretary,