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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
of the Susquehanna Bridge Company (a), and by that name may
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and do and suffer all
acts, matters and things, which a body politic incorporate may
lawfully do and suffer; and shall be, and are hereby invested and
clothed with all and singular the privileges, rights, immunities
and advantages, prescribed by an act, entitled, An act to incorporate
a company for the purpose of building a bridge over the
river Susquehanna, passed at November session eighteen hundred
and eight, chapter one hundred and eleven, to be governed by the
several regulations and restrictions as are therein mentioned, entitled
to the same tolls, adopting the same times and period as to the
election of their president, managers and officers, where the same
is not inconsistent with and repugnant to the provisions herein contained.
(a) By 1814, ch. 66, changed
to Susquehanna Bridge and Bank Company, and
all such parts of this act inconsistent with that act, are repealed. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 143. |
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CHAP. CXLIV.
An Act to encourage the Education of Youth in Worcester County.
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 481.
Supplements, May 1813, ch. 5, and 1814, ch. 29. |
Passed Dec. 24. |
WHEREAS the visitors of Worcester county school,
and the trustees
of a private academy at Snow Hill, have by their joint petition
represented that an union of the said schools, and enlarging
the number of trustees and visitors, would have a beneficial effect
in diffusing knowledge, and affording the means of education to
the youth of said county; therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
James B. Robins, Samuel R. Smith, John S. Martin, John C.
Handy, Ambrose White, Ephraim K. Wilson, Thomas R. P.
Spence, William Whittington, James Givan, Thomas S. Fassitt,
Thomas N. Williams, George W. Purnell, Joshua Prideaux, Isaac
Franklin, James Law, jun. John Stevenson, Joshua Duer, Edward
Stevenson, Peter Holland, John Dashiell, sen. McKimmey
Porter, Robert I. H. Handy, George S. Gunby, Charles Bennett,
jun. Boaz Walston, George Hayward, Eben Christopher, Robert
Michell, William Corbin and John Williams (b), be and they are
hereby constituted trustees for the education of youth in Worcester
county; and the said trustees, and their successors, are hereby
constituted a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession,
by the name and style of The Trustees of the Union Academy; by
which name and title the said trustees, and their successors, shall
be capable in any court of law or equity in this state, to sue or
be sued, to defend and be defended, to answer and be answered, to
hold property, real, personal and mixed, and the same to use,
manage and employ, in such manner as they, or a majority of
them, may deem most beneficial to carry into effect the purposes
of their institution; and by the said name and style shall be capable
in law or equity, and before any judge or justice within this
state, or elsewhere; and in fine to do and perform any act or acts
which any corporation or body politic within this state in like
cases may or can do and perform; and the said trustees, and their
(b) By 1814, ch. 29, the number
of trustees reduced to twelve, who are named. |
Trustees appointed
and incorporated. |
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