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CHAP. 204. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
market price, but not less than par, and to apply the proceeds of
such sales to the payment of the said several claims. |
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Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
CHAP. CCV.
An Act to empower Henry Howard, of John, of Montgomery County,
to bring into this State certain Negro Slaves therein
mentioned,
from the State of Virginia. Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 357. |
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Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
CHAP. CCVI.
An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the Shrewsbury Academy, in
Kent County. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 357. |
| Trustees incorporated. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John H. Nowland, Doctor Edward Scott, William Pryor, Philip
P. Rasin, George William Wilson, James Pearce and William
Keating, be and they are hereby appointed trustees of the Shrewsbury
Academy; and the said trustees, and their successors, to be
elected in the manner herein after mentioned, shall be, and they
are hereby erected, established 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 Shrewsbury Academy, by
which name and title the said trustees, and their successors, shall
be competent and capable in law, or in equity, to take and to hold
to themselves, and their successors, for the use of the said academy,
any estate in lands and tenements, goods, chattels, monies,
stock and effects, by the gift, 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 sell, convey, lease, loan, or otherwise
dispose of, for the use of the said academy, in such manner
as to them, or a quorum of them, shall seem most beneficial to the
institution. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at all times for
ever hereafter,
when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in the said community
of trustees, by the death, resignation or refusal, or any one or
more of the trustees thereof, or by the neglect of any one or more
of them 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 the trustee or trustees
to supply the vacancy or vacancies occasioned by the restrictive
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
seven persons as trustees of the said academy for ever. |
| Privileges of company. |
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, plead and impleaded, 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, clauses,
matters and demands, of whatsoever nature, kind or form they be,
and every other matter therein to do, in as full and effectual a
manner as any other person or persons, bodies corporate or politic,
within this state, or any other of the United States, in like |
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