| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
body politic, with perpetual succession, in deed and law, to all intents
and purposes connected with the said institution, by the name
and style of The Trustees of Big Pipe Creek Academy in Frederick
County, by which name and title they the said trustees, and
their successors, shall be competent, and capable in law and equity,
to take and hold to themselves, and their successors, for the use of
said academy, any estate in any messuages, lands and tenements,
goods, chattels, money 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 one thousand dollars, and the same messuages, lands and
tenements, and other estate real or personal, to grant, bargain, sell,
convey, assure, demise and to farm-let, and to put out on interest,
or otherwise to dispose of for the use of 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 employ the emoluments to the proper
use and advancement of the said academy. |
1818.
CHAP. 109. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
by the name and style aforesaid, shall be capable in law to
sue and 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
may be, and all and every other matter or thing to do therein, in
as full and effectual a 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, 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 or renew. |
Made capable to
sue and be sued,
&c. |
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 ordinances for the government of the academy aforesaid,
and to appoint such person or persons as they, or a majority of
them, may think proper, for instructing the students and scholars
of the said academy, in such branches of education as they shall
think proper and suitable to be taught therein. |
To make ordinances
for government
of academy. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That an election for
trustees shall be
held on the first Monday of November eighteen hundred and nineteen,
and on the first Monday of every succeeding November, at
the said academy, which said election shall be by ballot, and conducted
as follows, to wit: Every subscriber to said institution shall
be allowed one vote for every five dollars by him or her subscribed
and paid, and the three persons having a majority of votes shall
be declared the trustees for the ensuing year, provided that no person
but a subscriber shall be a trustee. |
Election for trustees,
when to be
held. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of ascertaining
who are entitled to vote for the trustees of the said institution, the
trustees thereof shall record in a book for that purpose, the names
of all persons who have subscribed thereto, and the amount subscribed
by each of them, and which said right to vote may be assigned |
Names of subscribers
to be recorded. |
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