which shall, after such election, be forthwith made up, signed, and delivered by them to the Board of Overseers. The persons who shall receive the highest number of votes for the places or vacancies in said Board shall, to the number of Overseers to be elected, be deemed and shall be declared by said Board elected to be members thereof.

SECT. 3. The Board of Overseers shall

give notice of the place of the polls, the hours during which they are open, and the number of Overseers to be elected, by publishing the same at least ten days before commencement day in some newspaper printed in the city of Boston.

SECT. 4. The terms of office of the existing classes of Overseers are extended to the close of commencement day of the year in which such terms severally expire; the terms of office of the classes hereafter elected, shall successively expire at the close of commencement day each year in their

order; aud the persons elected Overseers on any commencement day, shall supply the places of the class of Overseers which goes out of office at the close of that day, and the vacancies then existing in said Board.

SECT. 5. Whenever there shall be a failure on commencement day to supply any places or vacancies in the Board of Overseers, the same may be filled by vote of the remaining Overseers; and any person elected to fill a vacancy, shall be deemed to be a member of and to go out of office with the class to which his predecessor belonged.

SECT. 6. The Governor, LieutenantGovernor, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Secretary of the Board of education, shall not be ex-officio members of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College after this Act shall be in force.

SECT. 7. — This Act shall be in force when the Board of Overseers and the President

and Fellows of Harvard College respectively, at meetings held for that purpose, shall by vote have assented to the same.

SECT. 8.—This Act shall not be construed as in the nature of a contract or a charter, but may at any time be repealed at the pleasure of the Legislature. [April 28, 1865.]

[This Act was assented to by the Overseers on the 21st of September, 1865; and by the President and Fellows on the 15th of December, of the same year.]