rsons for the duties
and employments of active life; but, first of all and above all, I
would enjoin in connection with the above branches, the careful
inculcation of the principles of pure morality, piety, and religion,
without introducing topics of controversial theology, that the
benefits of said department or school may be equally enjoyed by all
religious denominations without distinction....

"To the end that my wishes in respect to the foregoing legacy may be
observed, I do hereby constitute a perpetual Board of Visitors,
consisting of two persons, who shall, during the term of their
respective lives, visit the said department or school as often as they
shall deem it necessary and advisable to do so, and at least once in
each year one or both of said Visitors shall examine the condition of
its funds, and the management and disposition of the same, as well as
the management of the said department or school generally....

"The said Board of Visitors shall have full power to determine,
interpret, and explain my wishes in respect to this foundation; to
redress grievances, both with respect to professors and students; to
hear appeals from the decisions of the Board of Trustees, and to
provide remedy upon complaint duly exhibited in behalf of the
professors or students; to review and reverse any censure passed by
said Trustees upon any professor or student on this foundation; to
declare void all rules and regulations made by said Trustees relative
to this foundation, which in their opinion may be inconsistent with my
wishes as herein expressed, or improper or injudicious; to take care
that the duties of every professor or other officer on this foundation
be intelligently and faithfully discharged, and to admonish or remove
such professor or officer either for misbehavior, incapacity, or
neglect of the duties of his office; to examine into the proficiency
of the students, and to admonish, dismiss, or suspend any student for
negligence, contumacy or crime, or disobedience to the rules hereafter
to be established for the government of said school or department; and
to see that my true intentions in regard to this foundation be
faithfully executed.

"And in order that said Board of Visitors may not be limited in their
powers by the foregoing recital, I further confer upon the said Board
of Visitors all the visitatorial powers and privileges, which, by the
law of the land, belong and are intrusted to any Visitor of any
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