CHAP.
XXII.
Justices to levy
money,
&c. |
aforesaid, with the collector's commission of six per cent.
thereon; which sum,
so as aforesaid assessed, shall be collected and paid by the collector
of said county
to the said trustees, or a majority of them, to be by them applied
to the purposes
aforesaid; and the said trustees, or the major part of them, are hereby
empowered and required, as soon as such house or houses aforesaid are
procured
on rent, to proceed to the appointment of an overseer, and other officers
and
servants as are mentioned in this act, and to do and perform every
other matter
and thing necessary to carrying the said act into execution, according
to the true
intent and meaning thereof.
XXIII. And
be it enacted, That the justices of the said county shall and
they are hereby empowered and directed to levy, annually, in the usual
manner,
in said county, exclusive of the money to be levied for the building
and providing
for the poor-house, such sums of money as shall, to the trustees of
the poor in
said county, appear proper and necessary for the subsistence and accommodation
of their poor, not exceeding three shillings and nine-pence in the
hundred
pounds; which said sums, when collected, shall be paid by the collector
to the
order of such trustees, or the major part of them, under their common
seal,
who are hereby authorised and required to receive and apply the same
to the use
and purposes as is directed to be done in the ninth clause of this
act. |
Preamble.
Trustees appointed,
&c.
To be a body
politic, &c.
And make
by-laws, &c. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that the Eden
school, which was erected at the joint expence of Somerset and Worcester
counties, is now in a state of ruin, and the beneficial effects
of its original institution entirely defeated, by its unhealthy situation:
And
whereas it is further represented, that the said school, by being removed
to a
more healthy situation, might become an useful nursery of academic
literature
for the adjacent counties; therefore,
II. Be
it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Messieurs
William
Cottman, Wiccomico creek, George Robertson, James Bennett, Benjamin
Frederick
Augustus Cæsar Dashiell, William Done, Peter Dashiell, Samuel
Wilson,
George Purnell, Samuel Handy, Isaac Marshall, Philip Quinton, William
Selby,
William Whittington and John Selby Purnell, be and they are hereby
constituted
trustees, with full power and authority to sell and dispose of the
said school-house,
and the lands thereto appertinent, together with all the property which
now belongs
to the same, to the best advantage; the said property to be sold at
public sale
to the highest bidder, on a credit not exceeding eighteen months from
the day of
sale, the said trustees giving four weeks public notice of the time
and place of
sale; and the money arising on the sale thereof, after paying off the
creditors of
the said school, provided their claims shall be legally authenticated,
to apply to
the purchase of a quantity of land, not exceeding one hundred acres,
in some
healthy situation, most convenient to the counties of Somerset and
Worcester,
and thereon to erect a school-house, and such other buildings as may
be deemed
necessary by the said trustees, or a majority of them.
III. And
be it enacted, That the said trustees, or a majority of them, by
the
names of The Trustees of Eden School, having first taken the usual
oaths to
government, and an oath to discharge their duty as trustees to said
school, shall
be, to all intents and purposes, a body politic, to sue and be sued,
plead or be
impleaded, in any cause or action whatever in any court of law or equity
within
this state; and the said trustees, and their successors, for ever,
in their corporate
capacity aforesaid, are hereby authorised to hold and occupy for the
use and
benefit of the said school, any property, whether real or personal,
not exceeding
the value of ten thousand pounds current money of Maryland.
IV. And
be it enacted, That the said trustees, or a majority of them, shall
have full power and authority to make and ordain such by-laws and ordinances |
