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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
Philip Fideman, Thomas Wright, of Thomas, Thomas Wright, of
Solomon, and Henry Darden, be and they are hereby appointed
trustees of the said academy; and the said trustees, and their successors,
to be elected in the manner herein after mentioned, shall
be, and they are hereby erected, established and declared to be,
one community, corporation and 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
the Centre-Ville Academy, in Queen Anne's county, by which
name and title they, the said trustees, and their successors, shall
be competent and capable, in law and in equity, to take and to hold
to themselves, and their successors, for the use of the said academy,
any estate in any messuages, lands and tenements, annuities,
goods, chattels, monies or effects, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale,
conveyance, devise or bequest, or any person or persons whatsoever,
provided the same do not exceed, in the whole, the clear yearly value
of five thousand dollars, and the same messuages, lands and
tenements, and other estate, real or personal, to farm let, and put
out on interest, for the use of the 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 apply the emoluments thereof to the proper
use and advancement of the said academy. |
1803.
CHAP. 62. |
4. 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 members thereof, or by the wilful neglect of any one or more
of them to attend two succeeding stated meetings of the board of
trustees, the remaining trustees, or a majority of them, shall, with
all convenient speed, proceed to elect, by ballot, other sensible and
discreet person or persons of the said county, to be the trustee or
trustees to supply such vacancy or vacancies, and in like manner
shall all future vacancies be supplied by the said trustees, and their
successors, or a majority of them, so as to perpetuate the number
of twelve persons as trustees of the said academy for ever. |
How vacancies are
to be filled. |
5. 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 be, and all and every other matter or thing to
do therein, in as full and effectual 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,
and their successors, 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
and renew. |
Trustees may sue
and be sued. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
or a majority of them, from time to time, and at all times
hereafter, shall have full power and authority to constitute and appoint
professors, teachers and assistants, for instructing the students |
May appoint professors,
teachers
and assistants. |
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