CHARTER OF THE UNIVERSITY

1815

 AN ACT

CONCERNING THE COLLEGE OF GEORGETOWN

IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

(6 Stat. 152)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for such persons as now are, or from time to time may be, the President and Directors of the College of Georgetown, within the District of Columbia, to admit any of the students belonging to said College, or other person meriting academical honors, to any degree in the faculties, arts, sciences, and liberal professions, to which persons are usually admitted in other Colleges or Universities of the United States; and to issue in an appropriate form the diplomas or certificates which may be requisite to testify to the admission to such degrees.

LANGDON CHEEVES, Speaker of the House of Representatives

JOHN GAILLARD, President pro tempore of the Senate

Approved March 1, 1815, JAMES MADISON

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