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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
more of them to attend four succeeding stated meetings of the board
of trustees, the surviving or remaining trustees, or a quorum of
them, may proceed to elect by ballot other sensible, judicious and
discreet person or persons of the county, to be the trustee or trustees
to supply the vacancy or vacancies occasioned by the respective
causes aforesaid; and in such manner may all future vacancy
or vacancies be supplied by the said trustees, and their successors,
or a quorum of them, so as to perpetuate not less than the number
of twelve persons as trustees of the said academy for ever. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 123.
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3. 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 nature, kind or form they
be, and all and every other matter or thing to do therein, in as full
and effectual a 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 quorum 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 the same
seal at their pleasure to break, alter or renew. |
Powers and privileges. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
or a quorum 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 languages and such sciences
and branches of education as they shall think proper and suitable
to be taught therein, and to make all such laws, ordinances, rules,
orders or regulations, for the good government of the said academy,
and the instruction of the pupils as aforesaid, and for the direction,
visitation and examination, of the said seminary, and the students
or scholars therein, as shall in their opinion best promote the important
objects of the institution, provided that the same be not repugnant
to the constitution and the laws of this state. |
Professors, teachers,
&c. may be
appointed. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
or a quorum of them, shall meet at least four times in
every year, in stated quarterly meetings, to be appointed by their
own ordinances, and at such other times as by their said ordinances,
or by their own adjournments they may direct, and when so assembled
they shall have power from time to time to appoint a president,
treasurer and secretary, and to do all and every other thing
or matter necessary for the government and discipline of the said
institution, and the management of its affairs, in the like manner
as is usually done for similar institutions. |
Meeting—appointment
of president,
&c. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before any trustee
herein before
appointed, or hereafter to be elected, shall proceed to execute the
trusts and authorities delegated by this act, he shall qualify himself
before any one of the trustees present, who is hereby authorised
to administer the oath, or affirmation, as the case may be,
that he will truly and faithfully execute and perform the duties of
a trustee of the said academy, without partiality or prejudice, according
to the best of his skill and judgment. |
Trustees to qualify
before they proceed
to execute
duties delegated. |
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