a law to incorporate the Andrew Small Academy
of Darnestown, in Montgomery county; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Frederick A. Fchiffaly, Upton
Darby, William F. Lewis, William Mullican, Na-
thaniel Clagett, George R. Rice and Samuel W.
Boswell, be and they are hereby appointed the
first Trustees of said Academy, and the said Trus-
tees and their successors, to be elected in the man-
ner hereinafter mentioned, shall be and they are
hereby elected, established and declared to be one
community, corporation and body politic, with per-
petual succession in deed and law to all intents
and purposes connected with the said Institution
by the name and style of the Trustees of the An-
drew Small Academy of Darnestown, in Mont-
gomery county, by which name and title they, the
said Trustees and their successors shall be compe-
tent and capable in law and 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, money's cre-
dits or effects, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale,
conveyance, devise or bequest of any person or per-

Incorporated
—power and
privileges.

sons whatsoever; provided, the same do not ex-
ceed 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, bargain, sell, convey, assure, devise, and
to farm, let and put out on interest, or otherwise
to dispose of, for the use of said Academy in such
manner as to them or a majority of them, shall
seem most beneficial to the Institution and to re-
ceive 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.

Proviso.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted. That at all times
forever hereafter when any vacancy or vacancies
shall happen in the said Board of Trustees by the
death, resignation or refusal of any one or more
of the members thereof, or by the willful neglect of
any one or more of them to attend three successive
stated meetings of the Board of Trustees, the sur-
viving or remaining Trustees or a majority of them
shall with all convenient speed proceed to elect by

Vacancies—
how filled.