ustees, and causing
an advertisement thereof to be printed in the "New Hampshire Gazette,"
and in some public newspaper printed in the colony of Connecticut. But
in case of the death or incapacity of said Wheelock, then such meeting
to be notified in manner as aforesaid, by the Governor or Commander in
Chief of our said province for the time being.

And We also, for us, our heirs and successors, hereby will, give and
grant unto the said trustees of Dartmouth College aforesaid, and to
their successors forever, that when any seven or more of the said
trustees or their successors are convened and met together for the
service of said Dartmouth College, at any time or times, such seven or
more shall be capable to act as fully and amply to all intents and
purposes, as if all the trustees of said College were personally
present; and all affairs and actions whatsoever, under the care of
said trustees, shall be determined by the majority or greater number
of those seven or more trustees, so convened and met together.

And we do further will, ordain and direct, that the president,
trustees, professors, and tutors, and all such officers as shall be
appointed for the public instruction and government of said College,
shall, before they undertake the execution of their respective offices
or trusts, or within one year after, take the oaths and subscribe the
declaration, provided by an act of Parliament, made in the first year
of King George the First, entitled, "An Act for the further security
of his Majesty's person and government, and the succession of the
Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants, and
for the extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and
his open and secret abettors," that is to say, the president before
the governor of our said province for the time being, or by one
empowered by him to that service, or by the president of our council,
and the trustees, professors, tutors and other officers before the
president of said college, for the time being, who is hereby empowered
to administer the same: an entry of all which shall be made in the
records of the said college.

And we do for us, our heirs and successors, hereby will, give and
grant full power and authority to the president, hereafter by us
named, and to his successors, or in case of his failure, to any three
or more of said trustees, to appoint other occasional meetings, from
time to time, of the said seven trustees,