| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever the damages
so ascertained
shall have been paid or tendered to the persons entitled to
receive the same, then the city commissioners shall proceed to open
the said streets agreeably to the alterations and extensions authorised
by this act, and the same, when so opened, shall be public
streets and highways of the city for ever thereafter. |
1816.
CHAP. 171.
When damages
are paid streets to
be paved. |
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CHAP. CLXXII.
An Act for the relief of Sarah Cis, of Talbot County. Lib.
TH.
No. 5, fol. 314. A Private Act. |
Passed Feb. 1, 1817. |
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CHAP. CLXXIII.
An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Union School of Dorchester
County. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 314. |
Passed Feb. 1, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Stephen Lecompte, Richard Tootell, Levin Luke, Hooper Rauleigh
and Robert Wallace, with such other citizens of Dorchester county
as they, or a majority of them, shall select, not exceeding fifteen
in number, be and they are hereby appointed trustees of the Union
School of Dorchester county; and the said trustees, and their successors,
(to be elected in the manner herein after mentioned) shall
be and they are hereby erected and created, and declared to be one
community, corporation and body politic, with perpetual succession,
in fact and in law, to all intents and purposes connected
with the said institution, by the name and style of The Trustees
of the Union School of Dorchester County, by which name and
title the said trustees, and their successors, shall be competent and
capable at law or in equity, to take and to hold, to themselves and
their successors, for the use of the said school, any estate in lands,
tenements, goods, chattels, monies, stock, funds or effects, by the
gifts, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance, devise or bequest, of any
person or persons whatsoever, provided the same do not exceed in
the whole the clear yearly value of two thousand dollars, and the
same to convey, lease, loan, or otherwise dispose of, for the use of
the said school, in such manner as to them, or a quorum of them,
shall seem most beneficial to the institution. |
Trustees appointed. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at all times for
ever hereafter
when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in the said community
of the trustees, by the death, resignation, or refusal of any one
or more of the trustees thereof, to attend four succeeding stated
meetings of the board of trustees, the surviving or remaining trustees,
or a quorum of them, may proceed to elect by ballot, other
sensible, judicious, and discreet person or persons, of the county,
to be trustee or trustees to supply the vacancy or vacancies occasioned
by the respective causes aforesaid, and in such manner may
all future vacancy or vacancies be supplied by the said trustees,
and their successors, or a quorum of them, so as to perpetuate
not less than the number of five persons as trustees of the said school
for ever. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
by the name and style aforesaid, shall be capable in law
to sue and be sued, answer and be answered, in any court or courts,
and before any judge, justice or justices, within this state, and
elsewhere, in all and all manner of suits, complaints, pleas, causes, |
Privileges of company. |
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