CHAP.
LVI.
 
 

Trustees ap-
pointed, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

How vacancies
are to be filled.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Trustees may
sue, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Appoint pro-
fessors, &c.

 of learning as the trustees and professors thereof shall from time to time think it useful and expedient
to promote, for the benefit and advancement of the institution; and the said academy shall be regu-
lated under the management, direction and government, of twelve trustees, and be perpetuated in
the manner herein after mentioned.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That John Edmondson, Nicholas Hammond, Samuel Chamberlaine,
Thomas James Bullitt, William Hayward, Ennall Martin, Stephen Theodore Johnson, Perry Ben-
son, John Roberts, Owen Kennard, John Coaats and Hugh Sherwood, be and they are hereby ap-
pointed the first trustees of the said academy; and the said trustees, and their successors, to be elect-
ed in the mannger herein after mentioned, shall be and they are hereby erected, establisehd and de-
clared to be, one community, corporation and body politic, with perpetual succession, in deed and in
law, to all intents and purposes connected with the said institution, by the name and style of The
Trustees of the Academy at Easton, in Talbot County, by which name and title they, the said trus-
tees, and their successors, shall be competent and capable, at law and in equity, to take and to hold
to themselves, and their successors, for the use of the said academy, any estate in any messuages, lands
and tenements, goods, chattels, monies or effects, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, de-
vise or bequest, of any person or persons whatsoever, provided the same do not exceed in the whole
the clear yearly value of five thousand dollars, and the same messuages, lands and tenements, and
other estate, real or personal, to grant again, bargain, sell, convey, assure, demise and to farm let, 
and put out on interest, or otherwise to dispose of, for the use of the said academy, in such manner
as to them, or a majority of them, shall seem most beneficial to the instution, and to receive the
rents, issues, profits, income and interest of the same, and to apply the emoluments thereof to the
proper use and advancement of the said academy.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED,  That all times for ever hereafter, when any vacancy or vacancies
shall happen in the said community of trustees, by the death, resignation or refusal, of any one or
more of the members thereof, or by the wilful neglect of any one or more of them to attend two
succeeding stated meetings of the board of trustees, the surviving or remaining trustees, or a majo-
rity of them, shall, with all convenient speed, proceed to elect, by ballot, other sensible and discreet
person or persons of the said county be the trustee or trustees to supply the vacancy or vacancies
occasioned by the respective causes aforesaid; and in such manner shall all future vacancies be sup-
plied by the said trustees, and their successors, or a majority of them, so as to perpetuate the nub-
ber of twelve persons as trustees of the said academy for ever.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, and their successors, by the name and style
aforesaid, shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court or courts,
and before any judge, justice or justices, within this state and elsewhere, in all and all manner of
suits, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and demands, of whatsoever kind, nature or form they be,
and all and every other matter or thing to do therein, in as full and effectual manner as any other
person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, within this state, or any other of the United States,
in like cases may or can do or perform; and the said trustees, and their successors, or a majority of
them, shall have full power and authority to have, make and use, one common seal, with such devices
and inscriptions as they shall thikn proper, and therewith to pass and authenticate the certificates,
acts and orders, of the said corporation, and the same seal, at their pleasure, to break, alter and
renew.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, and their successors, or a majority of them, from
time to time, and at all times hereafter, shall have full power and authority to constitute and appoint,
in such manner as they shall think best and most convenient, professors, teachers and assistants, for
instructing the students and scholars of the said academy in the vernacular and learned languages,
and such sciences and branches of education as they shall think proper and suitable to be taught there-
in, and to make fundamental ordinances or regulations for the good government of the said academy,
and the instruction of the youth as aforesaid, and by these ordinances to appoint such a number of
their own body, not less than seven, as they may think proper, to be a quorum or committee for 
transacting all general and necessary business of the said seminary, and making temporary rules for
the management thereof, and also by the said ordinances to delegate to the professors and teachers
such powers and authorities as they shall think expedient for the standing government and discipline
of the said seminary, and the execution of the regulations of the same, and also by the said ordinances
to make such regulations for the direction, visitation and examination, of the said seminary, and the
students and scholars therein, as shall best promote the important objects of the institution; provided 
always, that the said ordinances be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state.
                                                                                                                                    VII.  AND