any future Provost, Vice Provost and Professors in their respective offices during Life, which not being intended Mr Peters was desired to wait on the Governor in Behalf of the Trustees, and request he would be pleased to alter the same.
This was accorded; and on 10 June, 1755,
the clause in the new Charter objected to at the last Meeting having been altered by the Governor to the Satisfaction of the Trustees, and the Charter afterwards repass'd the Seal all the Trustees who attended this meeting [namely Messrs Franklin, Phin. Bond, Taylor, Cadwalader, Zachary, Peters, Stedman, Shippen, Masters, Hamilton, Strettell, Turner, Syng, Inglis, Tho. Bond, and Coleman,] except Lloyd Zachary, waited on the Governor as did likewise the Provost and Vice Provost; and respectively took and subscribed the Qualifications thereby required in his Presence. And the Trustees in Consequence thereof do now assume the Name and Title of The Trustees of the College, Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania, by which Name they are incorporated.
Dr. Zachary never qualified and took his seat in the Board; but his death in November 1756 removed his name from the list of Trustees. At the meeting of 30 June Messrs. Francis, Maddox and Mifflin, qualified and took their seats; and on 11 July, Messrs. Allen and White appeared in like manner. As there are no minutes between that date and 9 December, we find no record of the times Messrs. Leech, M'Call, and Plumsted took their seats under due qualification.
Early information to the public was given of the passage of the first draft of this charter, by Franklin in the Gazette of 11 March, 1755:
Last Friday an additional Charter passed the Great Seal of this Province by which a College, in the most extensive Sense of the Word, is erected in this city, and added to that Collection of Schools, formerly called the Academy, under the same general Government, the Trustees being now incorporated by the Name of "The Trustees of the College, Academy, and Charitable School of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania." The Chief Masters are also made a Faculty, or learned Body, by the Name of "The Provost, Vice Provost, and Professors of the College and Academy of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania," and a Power of admitting Students and others to the usual University Degrees is granted, under such wise and judicious Restrictions, that the Honors of the Seminary
