| NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 152.
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at all times for
ever hereafter
when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in the said community
of trustees, by the death, resignation or refusal, of any one or
more of the members thereof, or by the wilful neglect of any one or
more of them to attend two succeeding stated meetings of the board
of trustees, the surviving or remaining trustees, or a majority of
them, shall, with all convenient speed, proceed to elect, by ballot,
other sensible and discreet person or persons of the county to be
the trustee or trustees to supply the vacancy or vacancies, to be
supplied by the said trustees, and their successors, or a majority
of them, so as to perpetuate the number of eight persons as trustees
of the said academy for ever. |
Trustees may sue
and be sued, &c. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
by the name and style 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 all 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
corporate, 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
authority to have, make and use, one 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
corporation, and the same seal, at their pleasure, to break, alter
and renew. |
May appoint professors
and assistants, and make
regulations for government
of academy.
Proviso. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
or a majority of them, from time to time, and at all times
hereafter, shall have full power and authority to constitute and appoint,
in such manner as they shall 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 five, as they may think proper, to be a quorum or committee
for transacting all general and necessary business of the said seminary,
and making temporary rules for the management thereof; and
also by the said ordinances to delegate to the professors and teachers
such powers and authorities as they shall think expedient, for
the standing government and discipline of the said seminary, and
the execution of the regulations of the same; and also by the said
ordinances to make such regulations for the direction, visitation
and examination, of the said seminary, and the students and scholars
therein, as shall best promote the important objects of the institution;
Provided always, that the said ordinances be not repugnant
to the constitution and laws of this state. |
To meet at least
four times a year
—their powers. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
or a majority of them, shall meet at least four times in
every year, in stated quarterly meetings, to be appointed by their |
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