[October 11, 1827?]
The Congress of the State of Coahuila y Texas have thought
proper to decree as follows—
Considering Education as the basis of good morals of good order
and of the Republican System of Govt, and seeing the necessity there
is for the establishment of a Seminary at the Town of San Felipe
de Austin in Texas for the purpose of instructing the Children of
the new Colonists who have emigrated to that point in the Spanish
language, Therefore it is decreed
1—That a Seminary of learning shall be established at the said
Town of San Felipe de Austin in which shall be taught the various
branches of Education
2. The Said Seminary shall be under the direction of 13 trustees
who may [be] appointed yearly by the Ayuntamiento of Said Town
of San Felipe de Austin; and the said trustees may appoint a
President and secretary and treasurer, and shall employ all the
teachers and make rules and regulations and Bye laws for the
Government of said seminary and have the control of the funds
belonging to it and appropriate the same for the use and benefit of
said seminary
3—Untill there is an Ayuntamiento at the said Town of San
Felipe de Austin the above named trustees shall be appointed by
S. F. A. the Judge commissioned to administer the municipal
government of said Town for the present—
4—For the endowment of said Seminary with funds there is
hereby granted to it the quantity of Six Leagues of land to be
selected by the said S. F. A. in such size tracts as he may deem most
advantageous and in any part of the Country not otherwise disposed
of East of the Colorado Rlver in Texas— An entry of said selections
shall be made in the archives of the new Colony on the Brasos and
Colorado at the said town of San Felipe de Austin and a certified
copy therefor shall be sent to the Governor of this state who shall
file the same in his office as an evidence of said entries-—
5. The said seminary shall form a Body Corporate under the
name of the Seminary of Austin and may have a seal and buy and
Sell property and sue and be sued—
6. The treasurer of said seminary shall publish annually an A/C
of all the receipts and expenditures of said seminary for the
information of the public—