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ships. Latin.

Name of Professorship. Establish

ment.

Electors.

Election by majority of

votes.

If there be equality of

votes.

Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of
Cambridge

1.

There shall be established in the University of Cambridge a Professorship to be called the Professorship of Latin.

2. The Electors to such Professorship shall consist of the following persons:

(1) The Vice-Chancellor for the time being of the said University:

(2) The Regius Professor of Greek for the time being in the said University :

(3) The Public Orator for the time being of the said University:

(4)

The Professor of Sanskrit for the time being in the said University:

(5) The Members of the Senate for the time being who have been specially elected by Grace to serve on the Board of Classical Studies in the said University:

(6) The Professor of Latin for the time being in the University of Oxford:

(7) The Head Master for the time being of Shrewsbury School:

Provided that in case any one or more of the abovenamed Electors shall be a Candidate for the Latin Professorship on any occasion, he or they shall not be entitled to vote or to have any voice in the Election on that occasion.

3. The Professor shall be elected by a majority of the votes of the Electors present at a meeting convened for that purpose as hereinafter mentioned, and in case of an equality of votes the Regius Professor of Greek for the time being in the University of Cambridge if present, and in his absence the Elector present who stands first in rotation according to the above order shall have a double or casting vote.

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4. The first election of a Professor shall take place First election. within two months from the date of the establishment of such Professorship unless the two months expire in the time of vacation, in which case the election may be deferred to a day in the ensuing term, provided that the first Professor be elected before the end of the year 1869; and after the election of the first Professor, whenever a vacancy shall occur of such Professorship, a new election shall take subsequent place within two months from the date of such vacancy, the period of vacation not being reckoned in the calculation. The day of Election to be fixed by the ViceChancellor.

elections.

vacancy.

5. The Vice-Chancellor shall give public notice of the Notice of day for the first election and of any future vacancy and of the day for electing a new Professor upon such vacancy: and the day of Election shall be not sooner than 28 days nor later than 56 days after the date of the notice; and the Vice-Chancellor shall also send as far as practicable such notice to each of the above-mentioned Electors by post at his last known place of abode in England.

6. The Professor shall hold the Professorship for life Tenure. except as hereinafter provided.

7. The above-named funds, which are to be tran-ferred Stipend. to the Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the said University, shall when so transferred be called "The Latin Professorship Fund," and the Professor shall receive by way of stipend the whole of the dividends and income of the said fund subject to the payment thereout of incidental expenses (if any) and subject to the provisions hereinafter contained. [The Stipend of the present Professor of Latin is augmented to £300 a year out of the University Chest, Grace 30 May 1872.]

8. It shall be the duty of the Professor to reside Residence within one mile and a half of Great St Mary's Church Cambridge for 18 weeks at least between the first day of October and the last day of the Easter Term, and to deliver

one course of not less than 10 Lectures in each of two and Lectures terms in every year.

Latin.

Lectures scheme

and notice.

Required
Lectures to

be gratis but
may charge
for extra
Lectures.

Deputy, if desired by Professor,

how to be appointed.

Stipend of
Deputy.

Professor

to deliver to Vice-Chancellor statement of

number of

Lectures and

9. The Professor's scheme of Lectures shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Classical Studies.

10. The Professor shall give public notice of the time and place of his intended Lectures in the printed form usually issued by other Professors a fortnight at least before the commencement of his Lectures in each Term.

11. The Lectures required of the Professor shall be delivered gratis, but for any extra course of Lectures which he may deliver he shall be entitled to charge such a fee for attendance as may from time to time be sanctioned by the Vice-Chancellor.

12. If by reason of sickness, necessary absence from the University, or other sufficient cause the Professor desire to have a Deputy to discharge the duties of the Professorship he shall be required to obtain the consent of the ViceChancellor and the six persons elected and acting in accordance with Section 4 Chapter 7 of the Statutes of the University, such consent to be given in writing and to specify the time for which the Deputy is to be appointed; and such Deputy shall in every case be nominated by the Professor and approved by Grace of the Senate, and shall receive such Stipend as may be also approved by Grace of the Senate being not less than one-third or more than twothirds of the proportional part of the whole Annual Stipend of the Professor for the time for which the Deputy is appointed.

13. It shall be the duty of the Professor also to deliver to the Vice-Chancellor once in every year before the end of the Easter Term a statement in writing of the of residence. number of Lectures given by him during the preceding year and of the times of delivery together with the number of weeks between the first day of October and the last day of the Easter Term during which he has resided within one mile and a half of Great St Mary's Church.

Correction

in certain cases.

14. If it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Vice-Chancellor and the six persons elected and acting as

aforesaid that the Professor has been wilfully neglectful of his duties or guilty of gross or habitual immorality, it shall be competent to the Vice-Chancellor and the said six persons to admonish the Professor or to deprive him of his Office as the case may seem to them to require; and if the sentence of Deprivation be thus passed upon him, the Professorship shall thereupon become ipso facto void: but in every case whether of Admonition or of Deprivation an Appeal to the University shall be allowed in accordance with the provisions of Chap. 8 of the Statutes of the University.

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Deputy,

if adjudged

by the Court

of Sex Viri,

appointed.

15. If it be certified to the Vice-Chancellor and the said six persons that the Professor is become unable to discharge his duties by age, ill health, or other serious impediment, and if the Vice-Chancellor and the said six persons shall deem the inability to be sufficiently proved, they shall have the power of requiring a Deputy to be appointed for how to be any time not exceeding 12 Calendar months, which appointment if necessary may be renewed from time to time; and the Deputy in every such case shall be nominated by the Professor and approved by Grace of the Senate, and shall receive such Stipend as may be also approved by Grace of Stipend of the Senate, being not less than one-third nor more than twothirds of the proportionate part of the whole Annual Stipend of the Professor for the time for which the Deputy is appointed. If the Professor fail to nominate a Deputy within three months after being required to do so, or if the Senate do not approve the person nominated by him, the nomination shall be made by the Vice-Chancellor subject to the like approval.

16. The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge shall have power, but without prejudice to and not so as to affect the rights or privileges of the person for the time being holding the said Professorship without his consent in writing, to alter or vary any of the above-mentioned rules and regulations, and to make any additional rules and regulations by Grace of the Senate; and also to vary from time to time, if they see fit, the stock

Deputy.

Power of varying

Rules and

Regulations.

Latin.

Account of the origin of the Fund to be recorded.

in which the above-named sum now is or may be hereafter
invested.

17. The Vice-Chancellor shall in accordance with the
earnest wishes of the contributors, and in order to preserve
a permanent record of the fact that the Fund was primarily
established in honour of Dr Kennedy, make all possible
provision for inserting in the Cambridge Calendar an
account of the origin of the Latin Professorship Fund.

Name of Professorship.

Board of
Electors.

Resident
Electors.

Of whom to consist.

Non esident
Electors.

Slade Professorship of Fine Art.

Placeat vobis ut charta fundationis Professoratus Artium Exquisitiorum ex testamento Magistri Slade sigillo vestro communi signetur1.

1. When and as soon as the above-mentioned sum of £12,000 3 per cent. Consolidated Annuities shall have been transferred to the Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge there shall be established in the said University of Cambridge a Professorship to be called "The Slade Professorship of Fine Art."

2. The Professor shall be elected by a Board consisting of four Members resident at Cambridge and three nonresident.

3. The Members resident at Cambridge shall be the Vice-Chancellor for the time being and three persons on the Electoral Roll of the said University who shall be appointed from time to time by Grace of the Senate and shall remain Members of the Board as long as their names are on the said Electoral Roll unless they shall have previously resigned or become incapable to act. If one of the Members so appointed be elected Vice-Chancellor, his place on the Board shall be filled so long as he shall continue to hold the Office of Vice-Chancellor by the last preceding ViceChancellor who is not a Member of the Board.

4. The non-resident Members shall be the President.

1 For the Deed of Foundation, see Supplement to the Book of Endow. ments.

Jun. 24, 1869.

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