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Power to sue
and be sued. |
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Trus-
tees and their successors by the name and the stylo
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 any 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 cor-
porate 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 au-
thority to have, make and use a common seal, with
such devices and inscriptions as they shall think
proper, and therewith to pass and authenticate the
certificates, acts, and orders of the said Corpora-
tion, and the same seal at their pleasure to break,
alter and renew. |
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Appointment
of Professors,
Teachers and
Assistants. |
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said Trus-
tees and their successors or a majority of them
from time to time and at all times hereafter shall
have full power and authority to consider and ap-
point in such manner an they 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
therein, 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 four as
they may think proper, to be a quorum or Com-
mittee for transacting all general and necessary
business of the said Academy, and making tempo-
rary rules for the management thereof, and also |
