University Charter
In the Supreme Court, State of California
July Ten AD 1851 (July 10)
In the matter of the Incorporation of the President and Board of Trustees of the California Wesleyan College.
Declaration of Incorporation of The President and Board of Trustees of the California Wesleyan College.
Whereas Isaac Owen, Edward Bannister, and C.P. Hester, have presented their application in writing under their hands, requesting on behalf of the Methodist Episcopal Church in California, that an Institution of Learning, located at Santa Clara, and the Trustees thereof, may be declared by this Court to be incorporated under the name and style of "The Presidents and Board of Trustees of the California Wesleyan College" under and by virtue of an Act of the Legislation of this State entitled an act to provide for the incorporation of College, approved April 20, 1850 and the following persons have been proposed and appointed as Trustees of said College - to wit - Isaac Owen, D.L. Ross, S.D. Simonds, C.P. Hester, W. Grove Deal, William Taylor, ____ Kellog, J.W. Brier, D.O. Shattuck, Joseph Aram, T.J. McLean, Elihu Anthony, Annis Merrill, Benjamin Pierson, M.C. Briggs, E. Bannister, J.B. Bond, William Morrow, James Rogers, Warren Oliver, James Corwin, Charles McClay, D.A. Dryden and A.L.A. Bateman, And Whereas it has been made to appear that an endowment fund of twenty thousand dollars has been secured to said College and that the said proposed Trustees are capable men.
Now therefore it is ordered and declared by the Court here that the said Isaac Owen, D.S. Ross, S.D. Simmonds, C.P. Hester, W. Grove Deal, William Taylor, ____ Kellog, J.W. Brier, D.O. Shattuck, Joseph Aram, T.J. McLean, Elihu Anthony, Annis Merrill, Benjamin Pierson, M.C. Briggs, Edward Bannister, J.C. Bond, William Morrow, James Rogers, Warner Oliver, James Godwin, Charles McClay, D.A. Dryden, and A.L.A. Bateman and their successors duly appointed and elected be and the same hereby are made and constituted a corporation and body politic in law and in fact under the name and style of "The President and Board of Trustees of the California Wesleyan College" and entitled to all the rights, franchises, privileges and immunities and clothed with all the powers by said Act confirmed and secured.
Witness, the Hon S. Clinton Hastings,
Chief Justice and the seal of said
Court at San Francisco, this 10th day
of July, AD 1851.
E. H. Thorp
Clerk