VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, and their successors, or a majority of them, 
shall meet at least four times in every year, in stated quarterly meetings, to be appointed by their 
own ordinances, and at such other times as by their said ordinances, or by their own adjournments, 
they may direct, and when so assembled they shall have power from time to time to appoint a president, 
treasurer and secretary, to make contracts with the professors or teachers relative to the instruction 
of the scholars to be placed under their care, and for the payment of their salaries, to examine the 
progress of the students and scholars in their learning, to hear and determine on all complaints and 
appeals, and upon all matters touching the discipline and government of the said academy, and the 
wholesome execution of their ordinances, and generally to manage the estate and concerns of the 
said seminary in like manner as is usually done for the advancement and advantage of similar insti- 
tutions. 

VIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before any trustee herein before appointed, or hereafter to be 
elected, shall proceed to execute the trusts and authorities delegated by this act, he shall qualify him- 
self before some magistrate, by taking an oath, or affirmation, as the case may be, that he will truly 
and faithfully execute and perform the duties of a trustee of the said academy, without partiality or 
prejudice, according to the best of his skill and judgment, and agreeably to the directions of this act;
and a certificate of such qualification shall be delivered by the magistrate, and be affiled among their 
proceedings.

IX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said donation shall be annually paid by the treasurer of the
western shore for the time being to the order of the said trustees, and their successors, or a majority
of them, which order shall be manifested by the signature of the president, and the seal of the said
corporation.

X. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, and their successors, or a majority of them, shall,
on or before the twenty-eighth day of November in each year, report their proceedings, and the state
of the academy, to the general assembly, for their inspection and examination; and this act of incor-
poration, and every part thereof, and the proceedings of the trustees in execution thereof, shall have
effect in law according to the true intent and meaning of the same respectively, and shall be con-
strued, reputed and adjudged, in all cases, most favourably on the behalf and for the benefit of the 
said trustees and their successors, so as most effectually to answer the objects and design of this act
towards the advancement and promotion of knowledge and virtue.

                                CHAP. LVII.
An ACT to authorise the laying out a public road from Thomas
    Under Hill's mill, to intersect the road leading from John Neale's
    to John Coxe's, in Harford county.    Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 303.

WHEREAS a public road leading from Thomas Under Hill's mill, to intersect the road lead-
ing from John Neale's to John Coxe's, will be a great public convenience, and is essentially
necessary; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That John Clendenny, Nathaniel West,
Thomas Butler, William Whiteford and Thomas Montgomery, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners to lay out a public road, beginning at Thomas Under Hill's mill, and to run in a
direction so as to intersect a public road leading from John Neale's to John Coxe's, between Henry
Richardson's and Amos Jones's' in laying out the said road the said commissioners are directed to
take into view as well the disadvantages which may result to individuals over whose land the said
road may run, as the convenience of the public, so as to lay out the said road with as little injury to
private property as will comport with the public convenience.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners are hereby further directed to return a
plot of said road, so by them laid out, to the clerk's office of said county, to be there recorded; and
the levy court shall, after the return of said plot as aforesaid, appoint a supervisor or supervisors to
open the same, and shall levy a sum of money, not exceeding one hundred dollars, for that purpose;
and the said road, when opened as aforesaid, shall be taken for, and it is hereby declared to be, a
public road in said county, and may be repaired as other public roads are repaired in said county;
provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall authroise the said commissioners to open
the said road, or the levy court to levy any sum of money for that purpose, until the assent of every 
                                                   Z z z z z 2                                                            person

 
 
CHAP.
LVI.
 
Meet four times
a year, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

An qualify,
&c.
 
 
 
 
 

Donation to be
paid annually, 
&c.
 

Proceedings to
be reported, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1800.
 

Preamble.
 
 

Commissioners
appointed, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 

A plot to be
returned, &c.