• Collection Description
• Series A Charters and Amendments/College Laws/Consolidations
• Series B Contracts and Agreements
• Series C Indentures and Deeds
• Series D Surveys and Building Proposals
• Series E Miscellaneous: Transfers of Stock, Wills and Testaments, Insurance Policies, etc.
• Series F Permanent Record Books

See Centre College Digital Archives - Legal for digitized versions of selected items from the following inventory

Series A consists of a folder of background materials on the legal history of Centre; and several folders containing copies of the Centre Charter and subsequent amendments to the charter, including agreements for consolidation with Central University (Richmond, Ky.) and the Kentucky College for Women. It also includes printed copies of the Centre Charter, various admendments, and several editions of the Laws of the College.

Series B contains miscellaneous contracts and agreements involving Centre, including the trustees 1824 agreement with the Synod of Kentucky and other interesting contracts dating from Centre's early days.

Series C consists of miscellaneous indentures and deeds (one involving President Gideon Blackburn).

Series D contains early surveys and building proposals. One survey laying out plots for a "college and meeting house" dates from 1818. Among the other documents are building proposals, apparently for the first college edifice - Old Centre (completed in 1820); proposals for Old Main; for Boyle-Humphrey Gymnasium; and plans to convert Old Centre into apartment units in 1920. It should be noted that additional plans and proposals for converting Old Centre 1929-30 may be located in CC-2.1 President's Office Subject Files, Renovation of Old Centre.

Series E is a series of several types of documents including transfers of stock for the original Centre refectory (Hillcrest); last wills and testaments, (including that of President William C. Young); and miscellaneous official papers including certificates, petitions, and propositions. Folder 4 contains a petition dated December 5, 1818, from the citizens of Danville to the Kentucky General Assembly. These citizens had subscribed funds to the Danville Academy, and the petition asks the legislature to join their subscriptions with those of the Kentucky Synod to found Centre.

Series F contains two "Permanent Record Books" of Centre. Book One may be the most valuable single source for an understanding of Centre's legal history into the early 1940's. A similar collection of early Centre financial papers and records has also been assembled in CC-13 Business Office/Financial Records.