ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 289

CHAPTER 184.

AN ACT supplementary to an Act for the estab-
lishment of an Academy at Elkton, in Cecil
County, passed at December Session, in the year
eighteen hundred and seventeen.

WHEREAS, by the provisions of Chapter twenty, Section seven, of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, and for the establishment of an academy at Elkton, in Cecil County, passed at the December Session, in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, the Trustees of the said Academy are required to meet at least twice in every year; and, whereas, heretofore, especially in the years eighteen hundred and sixty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and eighteen hundred and sixty-	Preamble.
seven, the said Trustees have failed to meet in semi-annual stated meetings from time to time, as by the said Act of Assembly, required for the transaction of business; and, whereas, doubts may arise whether the said Trustees have not forfeited their rights and powers as a corporation, under and by virtue of said Act of Assembly; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said Trustees and their successors be and they are hereby vested with all the rights, powers and franchises conferred upon them in virtue of the Act of Assembly aforesaid, as fully and to all intents and purposes as if their annual, semi-annual or other meetings had been	Doubts,
regularly held in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, and that all corporate acts done or performed by the said Trustees, in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act of Assembly, be and the same are hereby made valid and effectual in law, as fully as if all the said meetings of the said Board of Trustees had been held at the time required by the said Act.	Acts legalize
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 31, 1870, 19	In force.