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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
by instilling in to the minds and hearts of the citizens the principles
of science and good morals: And whereas it appears to the
general assembly of Maryland, that this desirable end would be
much advanced by the establishment of an university in the city or
precincts of Baltimore, therefore, |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 159. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the college for the promotion of medical knowledge, by the name
of The College of Medicine of Maryland (a), be and the same is
hereby authorised to constitute, appoint and annex to itself, the
other three colleges or faculties, viz. The Faculty of Divinity,
the
Faculty of Law, and the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences; and
that the four faculties or colleges, thus united, shall be and they
are hereby constituted an University, by the name and under the
title of The University of Maryland.
(a) See 1807, ch. 53. |
University incorporated. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said University
shall be founded
and maintained for every upon the most liberal plan, for the
benefit of students of every country and every religious denomination,
who shall be freely admitted to equal privileges and advantages
of education, and to all the honours of the University, according
to their merit, without requiring or enforcing any religious
or civil test, urging their attendance upon any particular
plan of religious worship or service, nor shall any preference be
given in the choice of a provost, professor, lecturer, or other officer
of the said University, on account of his particular religious
professions, but regard shall be solely had to his moral character,
and other necessary qualifications to fill the place for which he
shall be chosen. |
Students—religion
tenets shall not
disqualify—Provost,
&c. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the members of
the said four faculties,
together with the provost of the said University, and their successors,
shall be and are hereby declared to be, one corporation
and body politic, to have continuance for ever, by the name and
style of The Regents of the University of Maryland, and by that
name shall be and are hereby made able and capable in law, of
enjoying to themselves, and their successors, in fee, or for any
lesser estate, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, annuities, provisions,
goods, chattels and effects, of what kind, nature and quality
whatsoever, and by whomsoever given, granted, bargained,
sold, aliened, enfeoffed, released, confirmed or devised, and the
same to grant, demise, alienate or dispose of, in such manner as
they shall judge most promotive of the interests of said University. |
Declared a body
politic. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said regents,
and their successors,
shall be able in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
answer and be answered, in any court or courts, before
any judge or judges, justice or justices, within the state, and elsewhere,
in all and all manner of suits, pleas, cases and demands, of
whatever, kind, nature or form they be, and to do all and every
other matter and thing hereby contemplated to be done, in as full
and effectual a manner as any other person or persons, bodies corporate
or politic, in like cases may or can do. |
Privileges. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the yearly value
of the messuages,
houses, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, hereditaments, or
other property, real or personal, of said University, (exclusive of
the lot and buildings occupied by the said University,) shall not |
Yearly value of
property not to
exceed 10,000 dollars. |
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