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"LAPPENDIXCONSTITUTIONS OF RECENTLYORGANIZED UNION INSTITUTIONSModification of the Charter Granted by the Board ofRegents of the State of New York to PekingUniversity, Making it a Union UniversityI"Peking liiwrtit if. Voted. That upon the unanimous requestof the Board of Trustees of Peking University, China, the charterof the said University, which was incorporated by a certificateexecuted June2-"),3SS9, and iiled on or about June 25, 1S90, in theoffice of the Secretary of State, of the State of New York, beamended by changing the corporate name of the institution tothat of Poking University, and by changing the second and thirdof the numbered paragraphs of the said certificate of incorporationso as to read as follows :Second. The purpose of the corporation shall be to establishand maintain in Peking, China, a University, founded andconducted on strictly Christian and evangelical, but not sectarianprinciples and to aid the youth of the Chinese Empire, nowChinese Republic, and of other countries, in obtaining in suchUniversity, a literary, scientific, or professional education."The corporation of the University shall, generally, have thepowers and privileges of corporations created under the EducationLaw of the State of New York, the same as iforiginallyincorporated thereunder."Third. The Board of Foreign Missions of the PresbyterianChurch in the United >Statesof America, the American Board ofCommissioners for Foreign Missions, and the Board of ForeignMissions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, shall be theconstituent trustee-electing members of this corporation, and themanaging boards of such Boards of Missions shall each choose, tobe respective representatives of the said bodies, four persons to bemembers of the board of trustees of the corporation, to so hold, inthe lirst instance and in succession, that the term of one memberof each group of such representative trustees shall expire in eachyear."Such representative trustees, acting together, shall, as theterms of the present nine general trustees, and of their successors,in continuing succession, expire, choose such successors, to so holdthat the terms of three ol such general trustees shall expire ineach year.Other incorporated missionary organizations ma} attime }>e affiliated with and made constituent trustee-electinganymembers of the corporation of the University, by the favoringD