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CHAP. 131. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
to the institution, and to receive the rents, profits and issues;
arising therefrom, and to apply the same to the proper use
and support of said school; and by the same name to sue and be sued,
commence, prosecute and defend, implead and be impleaded, in
any court of law or equity, and in all manner of suits and actions
whatsoever, any generally, in and by the same name, to do and
perform any act or acts which any corporation or body politic within
this state in like cases may or can do and perform; and the said
trustees, and their successors, are hereby authorised to have one
common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew, at pleasure. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever any of
the trustees of
said schools shall die, resign, or refuse to act or qualify, or remove
from the county, or shall neglect to attend the meetings of the said
board more than one year, the remaining trustees, or a majority of
them, shall elect by ballot a person or persons to fill such vacancy
or vacancies. |
Trustees authorised
to make ordinances. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority
to make fundamental ordinances for the government of the
school or seminary aforesaid, and the education of youth, and to
appoint such person or persons as they or a majority of them may
think proper, to be a teacher or teachers of the said school. |
To meet twice a
year. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
or a majority of them, shall meet at least twice in each year,
at such time as shall be appointed by their own ordinances, in order
to examine the progress of the students and scholars, and to hear
and determine on all complaints and appeals, and all matters touching
the discipline of the seminary, and the good and wholesome execution
of their ordinances, on all which occasions a majority at
least of the trustees shall compose a quorum. |
Property vested in
them. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and singular
the property,
real, personal or mixed, belonging to the Church Hill Academy, or
held in trust for the use of the same, shall be, and the same is hereby
vested in the said trustees for the purposes aforesaid. |
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Passed Feb. 6, 1818. |
CHAP. CXXXII.
An Act relating to the Town of Belle-Air, in Harford County.
Lib.
TH. No. 6, fol. 39. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
lots, &c. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Joseph Robinson, Henry Dorsey, Thomas A. Hays, Israel D.
Maulsby, and William Richardson, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners, and they, or a majority of them, are hereby
authorised and required, to cause to be laid out, surveyed, marked
and bounded, the lots, streets, lanes and alleys, of the town of
Belle-Air, in Harford county, as nearly as practicable to its original
location, and shall cause to be opened all streets, lanes or
alleys, now enclosed by any individual or individuals, which shall
be ascertained to have been originally laid out for public use, and
shall for that purpose give notice in writing to the person or persons
so having it enclosed, to open and clear, or cause to be opened
and cleared, the said street, lane or alley, by a certain day to be
fixed upon by the said commissioners, which day shall be specified
in said notice, and signed by the commissioners, or a majority of
them. |
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