| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and every act
and acts, or parts
of any act, which is or are inconsistent with the provisions of this
act, be and the same are hereby repealed. |
1817.
CHAP. 142.
Repeal. |
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CHAP. CXLIII.
An Act for the benefit of the German Lutheran Congregation in Frederick-Town,
in Frederick County. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 54. |
Passed Feb. 9, 1818. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
David F. Schaeffer, Charles Schell, Jacob Meddart, Conrad Englebrecht,
John Ebert, Andrew Hyne, Jacob Keller, Wanam
Kobb, and Lewis Birely, and their successors in the vestry office
of the German Lutheran Congregation in Frederick-town, regularly
appointed, be and they are hereby authorised, to take, have
and receive, and to demand, sue for and recover, in any court of
law or equity in this state, all the money and property of any kind,
devised or bequeathed by Michael Boyer, late of Frederick county,
deceased, by his last will and testament, tot he vestry of the German
Lutheran Church in Frederick-town. |
Vestry authorised
to be for certain
property. |
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CHAP. CXLIV.
An Act for founding a College in the City or Precincts of Baltimore
by
the
name of Asbury College. Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 54. |
Passed Feb. 10. 1818. |
WHEREAS public institutions for the education of
youth in the
principles of virtue, knowledge, and useful literature, are of the
first importance, and the surest means of raising up citizens eminent
in science, and to be ornaments and support of their country; |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a college, or general seminary of learning, by the name of Asbury
College, be established in the city of Baltimore, and that the said
college shall be founded and maintained for ever, upon a plan the
most liberal, for the benefit of youth of every religious denomination,
who shall be freely admitted to equal privileges and advantages
of education, and to all the literary honours of the college, according
to their merit, under the direction of the following nine
trustees, viz: George Roberts, Abner Neal, William Wilkins, junior,
Philip Littig, William Baker, Samuel Harden, Moses Hand,
Isaac N. Toy, and John Brice, junior, and their successors in office,
who shall be duly elected in the manner hereinafter described
and directed, who are hereby declared to be corporation and body
politic, for ever hereafter, by the name and style of The Trustees
of Asbury College, and by that name they shall be, and are hereby
made able and capable in law, to have, purchase, receive, possess,
enjoy and retain, to them and their successors, as aforesaid, lands,
tenements, rents, annuities, pensions, and other hereditaments, in
fee simple, or for a term of years, life, lives, or otherwise, and also
goods, chattels or effects, of whatever nature, quality or kind soever,
by the gift, bargain, sale or devise, of any person or persons,
body politic or corporate, capable to make the same, or the same
to grant, demise, alien or dispose of, in such manner as they may
judge most conducive to the interest of said institution; Provided
always, that the said trustees shall not possess at any time,
property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding in net yearly value
the sum of five thousand dollars. |
College established
—Trustees incorporated.
Proviso. |
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