| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
they, the said trustees, and their successors, shall be competent and
capable, in law and in equity, to take, and to hold to themselves
and their successors, for the use of the said academy, any estate
in any messuages, lands and tenements, annuities, goods, chattels,
monies or 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 five
thousand dollars; and the same messuages, lands and tenements,
and other estate real or personal, to farm let, or put out at interest
for the use of the said academy, in such manner as to them, or
a majority of them, shall seem most beneficial to the institution,
and to receive the rents, issues, profits, income and interest, of the
same, and to apply the emolument thereof to the proper use and
advancement of the said academy. |
1817.
CHAP. 20. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, seized in fee
simple, for the use and benefit of the said academy, of the houses
and lot in the town of Elkton at present belonging to the aforesaid
"Town School," together with any other property, real or personal,
which hath been given or granted by any individual or individuals
for the benefit of said school. |
Fee simple or
houses and lot
vested in trustees. |
4. 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 of any one or
more of the members thereof, or by the wilful neglect of any one
or more of them to attend the meetings of the board of trustees for
the space of two years, the remaining trustees, or a majority of
them, shall with all convenient speed, proceed to elect, by ballot,
other sensible and discreet person or persons of the state of Maryland,
to be trustee or trustees to supply such vacancy or vacancies,
and in like manner shall all future vacancies be supplied by the said
trustees, and their successors, or a majority of them, so as to perpetuate
the number of twelve persons as trustees of the said academy
for ever. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
by the name and style aforesaid, shall be capable in law to
sue or be sued, plead and be 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, causes,
matters and demands, of whatsoever kind, nature or form they be,
and all and every other matter or thing to do therein in as full
and effectual manner as any person or persons, bodies politic or
corporate, within this state, in like cases may or can do or perform;
and the said trustees, and their successors, or a majority of
them, shall have full power and authority to have, make and use,
one common seal, with such devices and inscriptions as they shall
think proper, and therewith to pass and authenticate the certificates,
acts and orders, of the said corporation, and the same seal at their
pleasure to break, alter and renew. |
Trustees enabled
to sue, &c. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
or a majority of them, from time to time, and at all times
hereafter, shall have full power and authority to constitute and appoint
professors, teachers and assistants, for instructing the students
and scholars of the said academy in such sciences and |
To appoint professors,
&c. |
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