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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1693-1697
Volume 19, Page 423   View pdf image (33K)
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Assembly Proceedings, July 1-10, 1696. 423

Licence as farr as your Maty see Expedient to the sd Francis
Nicholson Esqr and the other Trustees aforesaid th' they
or any of them or that any person or persons whatsoever
after the said ffree school or schools is or are so Erected
founded and Established or before may have power to
give and grant Assigne & bequeath all or any Manor Lands

Lib. L. L. 2

Tenements Rents Services portions Annuitys, Pensions Inher-
itances, Franchises and Possessions whatsoever Spirituall or
temporall to the Value of fifteen hundred pounds Sterl p year
besides all Burthens reprizalls and reparations to them the said
Francis Nicholson and others the Governors Trustees and
Visitors of the said ffreesschools of Maryland the Major part or
Survivors of them incorporate for the uses aforesdto them and
theire Successors forever And further that the said Francis
Nicholson and other the Governors Trustees and Visitors afore-
said the longest Livers and Successors of them be the true
Sole and undoubted Visitors Trustees & Governors of the said
ffree School or Schools in perpetuall Succession forever to be
Continued in the Way & Maner hereafter Specifyed with full
and absolute power liberty and Authority in makeing and
ordeining such Laws Orders and rules for the good Govern-
ment of the said fYree School or Schools as to them the sd
Trustees Governors and Visitors afd and their Successors shall
from time to time according to the Various Occasions &
Circumstances seem most fitt and requisite all of which shall
be observed by the Master, Usher, Tutors and Scholars of the
said Schoole upon the penaltys therein Contained Provided
Notwithstanding That the said Rules Laws and Orders be no
ways Contrary to your Matys Prerogative Royall nor to the
Laws and Statutes of Your Maties Kingdom of England or

p. 120

Province of Maryland aforesaid or to the Cannons and Consti-
tutions of the Church of England by Law Established and
that they the said Governors and Visitors & Trustees afore-
said and their Successors shall forever be Eighteen men and
not Exceeding twenty in the whole to be Elected and Consti-
tuted in the way and maner hereafter Specifyed of which one
discreet and fitt person that shall be Called Rector of the said
ffreeschoole and Schools and that from time to time and in all
times Coming the sd Rector shall Exercise the said Office dure-
ing one year (Death and Legall Disability Excepted) and after
till some others of the said Visitors and Governors of the said
School and Schools shall be duly Elected preferred and sworne
to the said Office and that from time to time and att all times
Coming after the said Year is Expired or after the Death of
the said Rector the Visitors or Governors of the said Schoole
or Schools or the greatest part of them or their Successors
should have power to Elect and nominate an other Discreet

p. 121



 
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