Extent to which property may be held

§ 5705. Extent to which property may be held. The said corporation may take and hold real and personal property to such an amount as may be or become necessary for the proper conduct and support of the several departments of education heretofore established or hereafter to be established by its board of trustees, and such real and personal property as has been, or may hereafter be given to said corporation by gift, grant, devise or bequest in trust or otherwise, for the use and purposes permitted by its charter, and in cases of trusts so created, the several trust estates shall be kept distinct, and the interest or income shall be faithfully applied to the purposes of such respective trusts, in accordance with the provisions of the acts or instruments by which the respective trusts were created.