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Excerpt from Charters and Statutes: With Amendments to December 5, 1921 So far as can be ascertained, this is the forty-second edition of the Statutes of King's College, Columbia College, Columbia University, which comprise a consecutive series covering a period of one hundred and sixty-six years. The first Statutes were adopted by The Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in America on June 3d, 1755, and they are entered in full on the minutes of that date. These statutes were revised in 1763. Subsequent editions were published in 1785, 1788, 1811, 1816, 1821, 1827, 1830, 1836, 1843, 1848, 1851, 1853, 1856, 1857, 1859, 1860, 1865, 1866, 1870, 1874, 1878, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1885, and 1887. In 1890 an exhaustive study was made of the then existing statutes and of all previous legislation of the Trustees as far back as 1820, with a view to the codification of the statutes, resolutions and administrative practice, and for the purpose of establishing the practice of embodying in the Statutes and by-laws all resolutions of continuous operation. A complete revision of the Statutes had become necessary at this time, owing to the fact that the College had grown into a University and had thereby become a far more complex organization, calling for definitions and delimitations of power as to Offices, schools, and departments. As the result of this study, a re vised edition Of the Statutes was published in 1892, and at the same time much obsolete legislation was repealed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.