| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
or bequest, of any person or persons whatsoever, provided the
same do not exceed in the whole the clear yearly value of two
thousand dollars, and the same to convey, lease, loan, or otherwise
dispose of, for the use of the said academy, in such manner as to
them, or a quorum of them, shall seem most beneficial to the constitution. |
1818.
CHAP. 135. |
2. 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 trustees thereof to attend four succeeding stated meetings
of the board of trustees, the surviving or remaining trustees,
or a quorum of them, may proceed to elect by ballot, other sensible,
judicious, and discreet person or persons of the county, to be
trustee or trustees to supply the vacancy or vacancies occasioned by
the respective causes aforesaid, and in such manner may all future
vacancy or vacancies be supplied by the said trustees, and their
successors, or a quorum of them, so as to perpetuate not less than
the number of five persons as trustees of the said academy for
ever. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
3. 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, answer and be answered, 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 nature, kind or form they be,
and all and every other matter or thing to do therein, in as full
and effectual a manner as any other person or persons, bodies
corporate or politic, within this state, in like cases may do and perform;
and the said trustees, and their successors, or quorum 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 the same at their pleasure to break, alter and
renew. |
Trustees made
capable in law to
sue and be sued,
&c. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any three or more
of the said
trustees shall be and are hereby constituted a quorum, and are
hereby empowered to meet from time to time at the said academy,
or at any other place within Dorchester county, previously designated
by the said trustees at their last meeting, and when so assembled
may, in the absence of the other trustees who do not attend,
do any act, matter or thing, which the whole number of trustees,
or a majority of them, might do were they present or attending,
any thing in any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Any three or more
constituted a quorum. |
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CHAP. CXXXVI.
An Act for the benefit of Levin Craig, Infant Child and Heir of
Margaret
Craig, late of Dorchester County, deceased. Lib.
TH. No.
6, fol. 349. A Private Act.
The county court may appoint a guardian
to convey to John Smith all the
right, &c. of the said infant child, of, in and to, the real estate
of which the father
of Margaret Craig, mother of the said infant child, died seised and possessed,
&c. |
Passed Feb. 6, 1819. |
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