| NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 159. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
shall have attended the lectures on the respective subjects during
two terms, and shall during that period have attended each of the
lectures prescribed by the ordinances at least one term, and shall
also have written and caused to be printed, a thesis or theses, in
the Latin or English language, and have publicly defended the same
on the day of commencement; but the regents of said University
may consider the attendance of such candidate or candidates for
offices or degrees on lectures in any other University of established
reputation, for the space of one or more terms, as equivalent to an
attendance for one of the above prescribed terms; and no student or
students shall be admitted to the degree of bachelor of arts, until
he or they shall have attended lectures in said University for two
years, or to the degree of master of arts until he or they shall
have attended the same for three years, but the said regents may
consider the attendance during one or more years in any other respectable
institution as equivalent to one year's attendance in said
University. |
| Honorary degrees. |
16. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the regents shall
have full power
to confer the honorary degrees of doctor of divinity, doctor of
physic, doctor of laws, and master of arts, on any person recommended
by the faculty, whose degree is contemplated to be conferred. |
What shall be considered
a term. |
17. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all students who
matriculate
in the said University previous to the first day of December in
each year, and attend any three courses of lectures therein, to the
end of the course, shall be considered as having completed a term. |
Exception of property
in former
act extended to
property owned
by university. |
18. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the beneficial
exception in favour
of all property real and personal, owned by colleges, contained in
the first section of the act of assembly, passed at November session
eighteen hundred and three, chapter ninety-two, entitled, An act
for the valuation of real and personal property within this state, or
which may be contained in any future act, be and the same is hereby
extended to all the property, real and personal, belonging to, or
hereafter to be owned by the said University. |
Ordinances contrary
to the tenor
of this charter. |
19. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case at any
time hereafter,
through oversight, or otherwise through misapprehension and mistaken
construction of the powers, liberties and franchises, in this
charter or act of incorporation granted, or intended to be granted,
any ordinance should be made by the said corporation of regents,
or matter done and transacted by the said corporation contrary to
the tenor thereof, all such ordinances, acts and doings, shall of
themselves be null and void, yet they shall not in any courts of law,
or by the general assembly, be deemed, taken, interpreted or adjudged,
into an avoidance or forfeiture of this charter and act of
incorporation, but the same shall be and remain in full force and validity,
the nullity and avoidance of such acts to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Charter shall be
good and available
in law. |
20. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this charter and
act of incorporation,
and every part thereof, shall be good and available in all
things in law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and
shall be construed, reputed and judged, in all cases, most favourable
on the behalf, and for the best benefit and behalf of the said regents,
and their successors, so as most effectually to answer the
valuable ends of this act of incorporation, towards the general advancement
and promotion of the professions, sciences and arts. |
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