Excerpt from Early Proceedings of the Board of Trustees: Will of Jonas G. Clark

To the Honorable the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The undersigned, citizens of this Commonwealth, respectfully petition your Honorable body for an Act of Incorporation, establishing at Worcester, in the County of Worcester, an Institution for the promotion and encouragement of learning in all its higher branches, with the power to receive and hold real and personal estate, the use and income of which is to be devoted wholly to the purposes of said Institution, and to hold, enjoy and exercise all the privileges immunities rights and powers (including that of conferring degrees) held, enjoyed and exercised by the universities and colleges of this Commonwealth.

And your petitioners further pray that said Institution may be known by the name of Clark University in recognition of the munificence of its originator and founder, as shown by an endowment of One Million Dollars, and probably more, should the community exhibit substantial evidence of its sympathy, encouragement and support.

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