| NOV. 1812. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
exceed one hundred thousand dollars, and all gifts or donations to
the said University, after the yearly value of their estates shall
amount to an hundred thousand dollars as aforesaid, and all bargains
and purchases to be made by the said University, which may
increase the yearly value of said estates above or beyond the sum
aforesaid, shall be absolutely void and of no effect. |
| Seals |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said regents,
and their successors,
shall have full power and authority to have, make and
use, one common and public seal, and likewise one privy seal,
with such devices and inscriptions as they shall think proper, and
to ascertain, fix and regulate, the uses of both seals, by their own
laws, and the same seals, or either of them, to change, break,
alter and renew, at their pleasure. |
Regents authorised
to appoint a
provost. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said regents
shall have full
power and authority to appoint a provost of the said University,
who shall preside at their meetings, and perform such other duties
as may by the said regents be assigned to him, and in his absence
to appoint a vice-provost, who shall always be one of their own
body. |
Mode of appointing
professors and
lecturers. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mode of constituting
and appointing
the professors and lecturers of the different branches of
physic, divinity, law, and the arts and sciences, shall be as follows:
Each of the faculties shall possess the power of appointing
its own professors and lecturers; and it shall be the duty of the
said professor and lecturer, of the different branches aforesaid, to
instruct the students of the said University by delivering regular
lectures on their respective branches. |
Each faculty to
choose its own
dean.
Proviso. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each faculty shall
be capable of
choosing its own dean, and of exercising such powers and authorities
as the regents of said University, and their successors, shall
by their ordinances delegate to them, for the instruction, discipline
and government of the said institution, and of all students, officers,
and servants, belonging to the same; Provided, that nothing be
done in virtue of this contrary to the constitution of this state or to
the constitution of the United States. |
Faculties, what
shall constitute
them. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the professors
now appointed
and authorised in the College of Medicine of Maryland, and their
successors, shall constitute the Faculty of Physic; that the professor
of theology, together with six ordained ministers of any religious
society or denomination, and their successors, shall form
and constitute the Faculty of Divinity; that the professor of law,
together with six qualified members of the bar, and their successors,
shall form and constitute the Faculty of Law; and that the
professors of the arts and sciences, together with three of the principals
of any three academies or colleges of this state, and their
successors, shall form and constitute the Faculty of the Arts and
Sciences. |
Meetings of regents
—their powers. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said regents,
and their successors,
shall meet at least once a year, in stated annual meetings,
to be appointed by their own ordinances, and at such other times
as by their said ordinances they may direct, in order to examine
into all matters touching the discipline of the institution, and the
good and wholesome execution of their laws; and that the said
regents, when duly assembled, shall have full power and authority |
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