422 Assembly Proceedings, July 1-10, 1696.

Lib. L. L. 2
p. 118

of fifteen hundred pounds Sterling and all other goods Chat-
tells money & personall Estate whatsoever of the gift of any
person whatsoever that is willing to bestow them for the said
use or any other Gifts Grants Assignments Legacys or
appointment of the Same or of any of them or of any other
Goods whatsoever with this Express intention and Trust putt
in them That the said Francis Nicholson and other the Trus-
tees aforesaid or the Major part or the longest livers of them
shall take and hold the premisses and shall dispose of the
same and of the Rents Revenues and profitts thereof or of
any of them onely for the defraying of the Charges that shall
be laid out in Erecting and fitting the Edifices of the said free-
school or Schooles as they or the Major part of them shall
think most Expedient untill the said ffree school or schooles
shall be Actually Erected founded and Established and upon
the Trust and Intention That as soon as the said ffree School
or Schools shall be erected & founded the said Francis Nichol-
son and other the Trustees above named shall from time to
time and att all times hereafter apply all Lands Tenements,
Rents Annuitys Goods Chattells profitts incomes or Advant-
ages w'soever reall or personall or as much as shall not be
laid out & bestowed upon building the said ffree schoole or
Schooles as aforesaid as shall be hereafter Expressed And that
when the said ffree Schoole or Schools shall be so Erected and
Established the said Francis Nicholson and other the Trustees
above named or the Major part or the longest livers of them
shall apply and appropriate to the use benefitt and Maintenance

p. 119

out of the Revenues or Incomes to the said Trustees for the
use aforesaid the sume of one hundred and Twenty pounds
Sterling per Annum for the Sallary Supporte and Maintenance
of the said first mentioned ffree Schoole Master Usher and
Scribe and the necessary repaires and Improvements of the
same as to the said Francis Nicholson and Trustees aforesaid
the Major part or Survivors of them shall seem Expedient
from time to time to ordaine in the premises and that for the
uses and purposes aforesaid they the said Francis Nicholson
and the Trustees afores^d the Survivors or the Major part of
them shall and may be incorporated into a body Politique by
by the name of the Rectors, Governors Trustees and Visitors
of the ffreeschools of Maryland with full power to plead and
be Impleaded, to sue and be sued to defend and be defended
to answer and be answered in all and every Cause Complaint
and Action reall personall or mixt of w^tsoever kind or nature
it shall be whatsoever Courts and places of Judicature belong-
ing to your Maty Your heires or Successors or by from or
under your Royall Grant or Authority and that your Maty
will be graciously pleased to give and grant your Special