(3) A simple majority of the voting members of the board of
trustees shall constitute a quorum and shall be required prior
to any official action to be taken by the board of trustees.
Section 3. [Membership of board of trustees; name] Name and
style of board of trustees; power of board to take and dispose
of property
The [Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth, the President
of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, and the
principal of the institution, shall each be ex officio a member
of the board of trustees, which said trustees, and their
successors in office, are hereby elected and declared to be]
board of trustees shall be a body politic and corporate in law,
with perpetual succession, by the name, style and title of the
Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, by which name and title
the said trustees, and their successors, shall be able and
capable in law to take by gift, grant, sale or conveyance, by
bequest, devise or otherwise, any estate in any lands, tenements
and hereditaments, goods, chattels or effects, and at pleasure
to alien or otherwise dispose of the same to and for the uses
and purposes of the said institution: provided, however, that
the annual income of the said State, so held, shall at no time
exceed twenty-five thousand dollars; and the said corporation
shall by the same name have power to sue and be sued, and
generally to do and transact all and every business touching or
concerning the premises, or which shall be necessarily
incidental thereto, and to hold, enjoy and exercise all such
powers, authorities and jurisdiction as are customary in the
colleges within this Commonwealth.
[Section 5. First meeting of trustees; term of office;
election to choose successors
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