For Somerset County, the Reverend Mr. Alexander Adams,
the Reverend
Mr. James Robertson, Mr. Joseph Gray, Mr. Robert Martin,
William Stoughton,
Esq; Mr. Robert King, and Mr. Levin Gale.
For Dorchester County, the Reverend Mr. Thomas Howell,
Colonel Roger
Woolford, Major Henry Ennalls, Captain John Rider,
Captain Henry Hooper,
Captain John Hudson, and Mr. Govert Lockerman.
For Cæcil County, Colonel John Ward, Major John
Dowdall, Colonel Benjamin
Pearce, Mr. Stephen Knight, Mr. Edward Jackson,
Mr. Richard Thompson,
and Mr. Thomas Johnson, junior.
For Prince-George's County, the Honourable Charles Calvert,
Esq; Governor,
the Reverend Mr. Jacob Henderson, Mr. Robert Tyler, Colonel
Joseph
Belt,
Mr. Thomas Grant, Mr. George Noble, and Colonel John
Bradford.
For Queen-Anne's County, the Reverend Mr. Christopher Wilkinson,
Philemon
Lloyd, Esq; Richard Tilghman, Esq; Mr. James Earl,
senior, Mr. William
Turbutt, Mr. Augustine Thompson, and Mr. Edward Wright.
IV. The which Persons, so nominated, appointed,
authorized an named,
for the several and respective Counties as aforesaid, or the major
Part of them
in case of Death, or Absence of any, are hereby required with all convenient
Speed, to meet at such Place within their County, as to them shall
seem meet,
to qualify themselves for the Office of Visitors of their County Schools,
which they are to do, by taking the several Oaths appointed by Act
of Assembly,
and signing the Oath of Abjuration, and the Test, according to the
Directions thereof; and also, taking an Oath for the Discharge of the
several
Duties and Trusts reposed in them, in the Words following, viz.
" I A. B. do Swear, That i will duly and
faithfully discharge the Duties and
" trusts committee to me, as a Visitor of
County School, according to the best
" of my skill and Cunning. So help me GOD,"
The which Oaths are to be administered by any of the Four Persons last
named
for the COunty, to the Person First named, that shall be present, the
which Person being
Sworn as aforesaid, shall administer the Oaths aforementioned to all
the
Rest: And so successively, the Persons first named, that shall
be present, shall
always administer the said Oaths to any that have been absent, or that
shall
hereafter be elected and chosen, pursuant to the Direction of this
Act, to supply
the Place of any that shall be dead, or removed out of the County:
And
the aforesaid Persons, or the major Part of them, being Sworn as aforesaid,
shall be constituted and qualified as Visitors of the School of their
said County,
and as such, are hereby invested with full Power and Authority, as
a Body
politic, 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, real, personal or mixt, of whatsoever Kind or Nature it shall
be, in
any of the Courts and Places of Judicature within this Province; and
that
they, or any of them, or any other Person or Persons whatsoever, either
before
or after such Schools shall be erected, founded and established, in
any
County as aforesaid, have full Power to give and grant, assign and
bequeath,
all or any Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Services, Portions, Annuities,
Pensions, Inheritances, Franchises and Possessions whatsoever, Spiritual
or Temporal, to the value of One Hundred Pounds Sterling, per Annum,
(besides all Burthens, Reprisals and Reparations) to them the said
Visitors,
or the major Part, or Survivors of them incorporate, for such County
School,
to them and their Successors for ever.
V. And further,
that the said Persons so incorporate, the longest Livers
and Successors of them, shall be the true, sole and undoubted Visitors
of such
Schools in perpetual Succession for ever; to be continued in the Way
and
Manner hereafter specified; with full and absolute Power, Liberty and
Authority,
in making and ordaining such Laws, Orders and Rules for the good
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CHAP.
XIX.
Somerset
County.
Dorchester
County.
Cæcil
County.
Pr. George's
County.
Queen-Anne's
County.
The Visitors
to qualify by
taking the
Oaths, &c.
appointed by
the Act of
1716, ch. 5.
and also the
following
Oath of a
Visitor.
the Oaths,
how to be administered.
The Persons
so qualified,
constituted
Visitors of
their County
School; and
incorporated:
May hold
Lands, &c.
for the Use of
such Schools,
to the Value
of 100 l.
Sterling per
Annum.
Shall have
perpetual
Succession,
with Power to
make Laws,
&c. |
