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CHAP. 71.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
their present and future coverture, and the same is hereby
granted to them, to elect, by a majority of votes, the gentlemen
protectors of the said school, whose officer shall continue for three
years; to fill up all vacancies that may happen either by death or
resignation in the board of protectors; and that the said board of
ladies, managers, shall have the sole superintendance, care and
direction, of the said school, and may pass ordinances for the orderly
management and good government thereof, the same not being inconsistent
with this law, the laws of this state, or of the United
States; Provided always, that a majority of said board of managers
shall be necessary in all cases to form a quorum for the transaction
of business. |
Children placed in
school to be subject
to same regulations
as apprentices,
&c.
Proviso. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any parent
or guardian, or
orphans court, shall have placed any female child or children in
the before mentioned school, they shall be subject to the same regulations
that apprentices are by the laws of this state, until it
shall be thought proper by the female managers of the said school
to bind out such female child or children, which the said managers
are hereby authorised and empowered to do, for the term and in
the manner that other female children shall or may be bound; Provided,
that nothing herein contained be considered as abridging the
security afforded to such person by the law concerning apprentices. |
Directors made
able to sue, &c. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the protectors
aforesaid, and
their successors in office, duly elected by the name aforesaid, shall
be able and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
answer and answered, defend and be defended, in all or
any court of justice whatsoever, and also to make, have and use, a
common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew at pleasure,
and that this act of incorporation, and every part thereof, shall be
good and available in law, in all things, according to the true intent
and meaning thereof, and shall be construed, reputed and adjudged,
in all cases most favourably on behalf of the said institution,
so as most effectually to answer the valuable ends included
thereby. |
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Passed Jan. 27, 1819. |
CHAP. LXXII.
An Act for the relief of Emily Hicks Davis, of the City of Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 286. A Private Act. |
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Passed Jan. 29, 1819. |
CHAP. LXXIII.
An Act incorporating a Company to erect a Toll Bridge across the
Potomac
River, opposite Shepherd's Town.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 286. |
Subscription
books to be opened. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall be lawful to open books, in Sharpsburgh, in the county of
Washington, under the direction of John Blackford, George Smith,
Jacob Miller, Joseph Heddrick, and John Miller, or any two of
them; in Middletown, in Frederick county, under the direction of
Frederick Stemple, Lewis Creager, Adam Lawrence, Henry Stemple,
and Henry Motter, or any two of them; in Hager's-town, in
Washington county, under the direction of Otho H. Williams, Jacob
Schnebly, Thomas Kellar, Daniel Schnebly, and Thomas
Compton, or any two of them; in Boonsborough, in said county,
under the direction of Matthias Shaffner, Henry Locker, junior,
Exra Slifer, Michael Stonebreaker, and Septimus Stephens, or any |
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