| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
case may or can do or perform; and the said trustees, and their
successors, or a quorum of them, shall have full power and authority
to have, make and use, a common seal, with such devices and
inscriptions as they shall think proper, and the same seal at their
pleasure to break, alter or renew. |
1816.
CHAP. 206. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
or a quorum of them, from time to time, and at all times
hereafter, shall have full power and authority to constitute and appoint,
in such manner as they shall think most convenient and
best, professors and teachers and assistants, for instructing the
students and scholars of the said academy in the languages, and
such sciences and branches of education as they shall think proper
and suitable to be taught therein, and to make all such by-laws,
ordinances, rules, orders or regulations, for the good government
of the said academy, and the instruction of the pupils as aforesaid,
and for the direction, visitation and examination, of the said seminary,
and the students or scholars therein, as shall in their opinion
best promote the important objects of the institution; provided that
the same be not repugnant to the constitution and the laws of this
state. |
Trustees to appoint
teachers, &c. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
or a quorum of them, shall meet at least four times in every
year, in stated quarterly meetings, to be appointed by their
own ordinances, or such other times fixed by their own adjournments,
and when so assembled they shall have power to appoint,
from time to time, a president, treasurer and secretary, and to do
all and every other thing or matter necessary for the government
and discipline of the said institution, and the management of its
affairs, in the like manner as is usually done for such institutions. |
Times of meeting. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before any trustee
herein before
appointed, or hereafter to be elected, shall proceed to execute the
trusts and authorities delegated by this act, he shall qualify himself
before any one of the trustees present, who is hereby authorised
to administer an oath, or affirmation, as the case may be,
that he will well, faithfully and truly, execute and perform the duties
of a trustee of the said academy, without partiality or prejudice,
according to the best of his skill and judgment. |
Trustees to take
an oath. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any four or more
of the said
trustees shall be, and are hereby declared to be, a quorum, and are
hereby empowered to meet from time to time, at the said academy,
or any other place within Kent county, previously designated by
the said trustees at their last meeting, and when so assembled may,
in the absence of the other trustees who do not attend, do any act,
matter or thing, which the whole number of trustees, or a majority
of them, might do were they present or attending, any thing in
any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Four of the trustees
to be a quorum. |
8. AND whereas, the lot of ground on which
the said academy
now stands, was purchased from Henry Tilghman, Esq. who conveyed
the same to the use of the said academy, therefore, BE IT
ENACTED, That all land so purchased from Henry Tilghman, Esq.
for the use aforesaid, shall be and for ever remain to the use of the
said academy; and the trustees of the said academy, and their successors,
shall be vested with all the right, title, interest and estate,
in the said land, subject to the use aforesaid. |
Land vested in
trustees. |
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