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University of Pennsylvania
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Charters, Statutes, By-Laws and Rules, 1791 - 1971
UPA 2
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| Box 1 | "Statutes U. P."--Statutes, Rules, and By-Laws of the University of Pennsylvania, 1791- 1828 (handwritten pages in a bound volume) | |
| Box R1 | FF 1 | Additional Charter of the College, & c. of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, 1791 September 30th (5 copies), with a letter from University Secretary--Horace M. Lippincott--to Geo. W. Wickersham, Sept. 28, 1922; and a typescript of the final section of the Charter) |
| FF 2 | Rules and Statutes of the University of Pennsylvania, 1811 (6 copies) | |
| FF 3 | Rules and Statutes of the University of Pennsylvania, 1820 (6 copies) | |
| FF 4 | Statutes and By-laws of the University of Pennsylvania, revised March 1826 (6 copies) | |
| FF 5 | Laws for the Government of the Collegiate and Academical Departments and the Department of Natural Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania, revised March 1826 (2 copies) | |
| FF 6 | Charter, Statutes, By-laws, Rules of 1826, 1871, 1885, 1898, 1907, 1912, bound in one book form | |
| Box R2 | FF 1 | By-laws of the University, 1851 April (7 copies) |
| FF 2 | Charters and Statutes of the University of Pennsylvania, 1853 (3 copies) | |
| FF 3 | Charters and Statutes of the University of Pennsylvania, 1871 (3 copies) | |
| FF 3a | General Laws for the Government of the Department of Arts and of the Department of Science of the University of Pennsylvania, revised March 5, 1872 | |
| FF 4 | Acts of Assembly relating to the University of Pennsylvania, together with the Revised of the Statutes and By-laws, 1877 (3 copies) | |
| FF 5 | Statutes of the University of Pennsylvania, 1877 (9 copies) | |
| FF 6 | Statutes of the University of Pennsylvania, 1881 | |
| FF 7 | Statutes of the University of Pennsylvania, 1885 (7 copies) | |
| FF 8 | Decree of the Court of Common Pleas Number 4 of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, authorizing the Amendment to the Charter, 1894 | |
| FF 9 | Statutes of the Corporation, revised 1904 (3 copies) FF 10 Statutes & By-laws, 1905 (2 copies) | |
| Box R3 | FF 1 | Charter, Rules and Statutes of the Corporation, 1912 (11 copies) |
| FF 2 | Proprietary Charters and Acts of Assembly relating to the University, 1912 (8 copies) | |
| FF 3 | Agreement between the Thomas W. Evans Museum and Institute Society and the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Dated June 15, 1912 (2 copies, in print and one typescript) | |
| FF 4 | "Petition of the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital of the City of Philadelphia and the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania for Leave to Merge and the Court's Decree Effecting the Merger," 1916 (with one photocopy) | |
| FF 5 | Petition of the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine and the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania for Leave to Merge and the Court's Decree Effecting the Merger, 1917 | |
| FF 6 | Rules and Statutes of the Corporation, 1920 (6 copies, including two with amendments in 1921 and 1922) | |
| FF 7 | Proposed Revision: Rules and Statutes of the Corporation, 1922 | |
| Box R4 | FF 1 | Proposed Amendments to Rules and Statutes of the University of Pennsylvania, 1923 (2 copies) |
| FF 2 | Proposed Revision: Rules and Statutes of the Corporation, 1923 (3 copies) | |
| FF 3 | Amendments to Rules and Statutes of the University of Pennsylvania, 1923 (5 copies) | |
| FF 4 | Proposed Revision: Rules and Statutes of the Corporation, 1924 | |
| FF 5 | Trustees Petition for the amendment of the Charter, 1927 | |
| FF 6 | "Proprietary Charters and Acts of Assembly relating to the University," 1927 (4 copies including one in negative print) | |
| FF 7 | Report of the Special Committee on Administrative Reorganization of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, 1927 Nov. 3 (3 copies) | |
| FF 8 | Proposed Revision: Rules and Statutes of the Corporation, 1928 (2 versions) | |
| FF 9 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1928 (3 copies) | |
| Box R5 | FF 1 | Proposed Revision: Statutes of the Corporation, 1931 (2 copies) |
| FF 2 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1931 (6 copies) | |
| FF 3 | Agreement of Consolidation between the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and Illman Training School for Kindergarten and Primary Teachers, 1936 | |
| FF 4 | Articles of Merger of Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases into the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and Related Instruments, 1938 | |
| FF 5 | Deed conveying the Bolton Farm to the University of Pennsylvania, 1938 | |
| FF 6 | Facsimile reproduction of the Charter of 1753--Desk Book of William Smith, 1940 (6 copies) | |
| FF 7 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1940 (5 copies) | |
| FF 8 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1944 (6 copies) | |
| Box R6 | FF 1 | Proposed revisions for the Proprietary Charters and Acts of Assembly relating to the University, 1945-1946 |
| FF 2 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1946 (6 copies) | |
| FF 3 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1951 (7 copies) | |
| FF 4 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1952 (6 copies) | |
| Box R7 | FF 1 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1954 |
| FF 2 | Proposed statement of Interpretations of the Statutes, January 1954 | |
| FF 3 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1955 | |
| FF 4 | Proposed Agreement between the Trustees of the S. S. Huebner Foundation and the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, 1956 June 4 | |
| FF 5 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1959 | |
| FF 6 | Proprietary Charters and Acts of Assembly relating to the University, 1753-1927, compiled and printed in 1960, with a letter dated Nov. 22, 1960, from John Ames Ballard of Philadelphia National Bank | |
| FF 7 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1963 | |
| FF 8 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1966 | |
| FF 9 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1969 (3 copies) | |
| FF 10 | Statutes of the Corporation, 1983, 2001 | |
| FF 11 | Union Agreements, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1971 |
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