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Salisbury District
Court of Equity

September Term Anno Dom. 1795

To the Honorable the judges of the Court of Equity for the district
aforesaid now sitting in Chancery, Humbly Complaining there to your Honors, your orators
the Trustees of the University of No Carolina, that by an Act of the General Assembly passed at
Fayetteville in the year of our Lord 1789, entitled an Act to Establish an University in this State
Samuel Johnston, James Iredell, Charles Johnston, Hugh Williamson, Stephen Cabarrus, Richard Dobbs
Spaight, William Blount, Benjamin Williams, John Selgraves, Frederick Harget, Robert W. Snead,
Archibald Maclain, Hon. Samuel Ashe, Robert Dicksen, Benjamin Smith, The Hon. Samuel Spencer,
John Hay, James Hogg, Henry W. Harrington, William B. Grove, Rev.d Samuel McCorkle, Adlai Osbron,
John Stokey, Alfred Moore, Alexander Mebane, John Hamilton, Joseph Graham, Jon. John Williams,
Thomas Person, Joel Lane, Willie Jones, Benjamin Hawkins, John Haywood Sen, John Macon, William
R. Davie, Joseph Dickson, James Holland and William Porter Esquires, and they are declared
to be a Body Corporate and politic to be known and Distinguished by the name of the Trustees of
the University of No. Carolina, and by that name to have perpetual succession and that they the trustees
and their Successors by the name aforesaid or a majority of them should be able and capable in law to
take demand, receive, and possess all monies, Goods and Chattles that should be given to them, for the
use of the said University, and the same to apply accending to the will of the donors, and by Gift
purchase or devise, to take, have, receive, possess, enjoy and retain to them and their Successors forever
any lands, Rents, tenements and Hereditaments of what kind nature of quality soever the Same may be
in Special Trust and Confidence that the same or the profits thereof should be applied to the use /strikethrough/ of the said /end/
and purpose of Establishing the said University; and it was further enacted by the before mentioned
Act, that the said Trustees and their Successors forever, or a majority of them shall be able and Capable in
Law by the name aforesaid to sue and implead, [be] sued and impleaded, answer and be answered, in all