erdy Johnson, Jr., Talbot Denmead, Martin
Hawley, Isaac D. Jones, Benjamin Silver, Jacob
Tome, John Clark, Robert Turner, Richard Col-
vin, John C. Bacus, Cyrus Dixon, Chauncey
Brooks, Noah Schenck, Hamilton Easter, John S.
Weeks, Andrew B. Cross, Samuel M. Shoemaker,
Jesse Towson, Samuel Small, J. N. Dubarry, A.
D. Mitchell, Robert K. Robertson, Charles E.
Webster, W. M. Paxton, T. D. Gurley, Samuel
M. Whiteford, E. J. D. Cross and their succes-
sors be and the same are hereby constituted and
created a body corporate and politic by the name
and style of the Trustees of Aia College, Mary-
land, and by that name shall have perpetual suc-
cession, and shall be able and capable in law to
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer
and be answered unto in any Court of Law or
Equity in this State, or before any Judge or Jus-
tice thereof, and shall have a common seal, and
the same to alter or abolish at pleasure, and to do
all other Acts necessary to carry out the objects of
this corporation.

Objects of in-
corporation.

Sec. 2. Be it enacted. That the corporation crea-
ted by this Act shall have power to establish and
perpetuate a college under the above corporate name
for scientific, literary and moral purposes, with
power to hold for the benefit of said institution
such property, real and personal, as shall be
needed in erecting and perfecting the same, and
to receive such donations or bequests as may from
time to time be made, to enable them to secure
furniture, scientific apparatus, libraries, scholar-
ships or foundations by which to enable persons of
limited means to secure the benefit of a complete
education, but whose annual income, exclusive of
land, buildings, furniture, library, chemicals and
philosophical apparatus, shall not exceed thirty
thousand dollars.

Authority to
confer degrees,
&c.

Sec. 3. Be it enacted, That said Board of Trus-
tess shall have power to confer literary degrees
make, alter and amend such rules and by-laws for
the government, direction and permanent prosper-
ity of the institution as they may deem best, not
inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the
United States, and shall have power to fill vacan-
cies occurring by death, resignation or otherwise