| NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 144. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
successors, are hereby authorised to have one common seal, and the
same to break, alter and renew, at pleasure. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever any of
the said trustees
shall die, resign, or refuse to act or qualify, or remove from the
county, or shall neglect to attend the annual meetings of the said
board for three years successively, the remaining trustees, or a majority
of them, at their stated annual meetings, shall elect, by ballot,
a person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies from the same
election district; and every vacancy shall be filled where the person
occasioning such vacancy resided when first constituted a trustee;
and all future vacancies shall be filled in like manner by the
said trustees, and their successors, so as aforesaid, to preserve the
full number of thirty members.
See 1814, ch. 29. |
Meetings—By-laws,
&c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That there shall be
an annual stated
meeting (a) of the said trustees on the first Wednesday of September
next, and on the same day in every year thereafter, and at
such other time or times in each and every year as the said trustees,
or a majority of them, may appoint; and the said trustees
are hereby authorised and empowered to make all such by-laws,
rules and ordinances, as they, or a majority of them, may deem
necessary and proper for carrying into effect the object of this institution,
and by such ordinances to appoint seven of their own
body to be visitors of the Central Academy at Snow Hill, delegating
to the said visitors such powers and authorities as they may deem
expedient for the government and discipline of the teachers, scholars
and others, of the said seminary.
(a) By 1814, ch. 29, the trustees
to fix the time of meeting, and authorised to
borrow money, &c. |
When sufficient
funds to establish
county schools,
trustees to appoint
patrons of such
schools. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so soon as the
said trustees shall
be enabled with sufficient funds, either by legislative donations or
otherwise, to establish or endow one or more county schools for
the purposes of common English education, they are hereby authorised
and empowered to appoint a committee or committees of
their own body, to be styled Patrons of the said school or schools,
who shall be accountable to the said trustees, and their successors,
for the faithful discharge of their duties, in such manner, and under
such regulations as the said trustees may establish or appoint. |
Property vested in
trustees. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and singular
the property,
real, personal and mixed, belonging to the visitors of Worcester
county school, in their corporate capacity, as soon as the same is
reduced into their possession, and also the lot or lots of ground in
in Snow-Hill, with the houses, buildings, and appertenances
thereon, heretofore held in trust for the trustees of the Snow-Hill
academy, with all other the property, real, personal or mixed, to
which they or any other person or persons have or may hold in
trust for them for the use of said academy, shall be and is hereby
vested in the said trustees of the Union Academy, and shall for
ever hereafter be deemed, considered and held, as their right and
property for the purposes of this act. |
First meeting,
when to be held—
Oath of trustees. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
or a majority
of them, shall meet for the first time on the first Wednesday in
April next, and qualify themselves for the office of trustees, by
taking the several oaths to government appointed by the constitution |
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