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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
James Carey, Doctor John Campbell White, James A. Buchanan,
Robert Moore, Nicholas Norris, Kennedy Long, Robert
Steuart, James Blays and Doctor John Coulter, be and are hereby
appointed trustees of the said college. |
1803.
CHAP. 74. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees
shall have full
power and authority to appoint one of their own members president
of the board, who shall preside at their meetings, and in his absence
to appoint a vice-president. |
Who may appoint
a president. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees aforesaid
may receive
donations or subscriptions, and appoint proper persons for receiving
the same, to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars,
and with the consent of the mayor and city council of Baltimore,
raise, by way of lottery, (a) or lotteries, divided into classes,
if thought expedient, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, free of all
expenses, for the purpose of erecting or purchasing the necessary
buildings, and carrying into effect the objects of the institution.
(a) See 1807, ch. 97. |
Purchase and enjoy
lands, tenements,
&c. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid trustees,
and their
successors, by the same name, shall be able and capable in law to
purchase, have and enjoy, to them and their successors, in fee, or
for any other less estate or estates, any lands, tenements, annuities,
pensions, or other hereditaments within this state, by the gift, grant,
bargain, sale, alienation, enfeoffment, release or confirmation, of
any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to make
the same, and such lands, tenements, rents, annuities, pensions or
other hereditaments, or any less estates, rights or interests, of or
in the same, at their pleasure to grant, alien, sell and transfer, in
such manner and form as they shall think meet and convenient for
the furtherance of the said college; and also that they may take
and receive any sum or sums of money, and any kind, manner or
portion, of goods and chattels, that shall be given or sold to them,
by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable to
make a gift or sale thereof, and employ the same towards maintaining
the said college, in such manner as they shall judge most
necessary and convenient for the instruction, improvement and
education of youth in the vernacular and learned languages, and
generally in any kind of literature, arts and sciences, which they
shall think proper to be taught, for training up good, useful and
accomplished men, for the service of their country. |
Purchase and enjoy
lands, tenements,
&c. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees, and
their successors,
shall be able in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in
any court or courts, before any judge, judges 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 and thing therein to
do, in as full and effectual a manner as any other person or persons,
bodies politic or corporate, within this state, or any of the United
States of America, in like cases may or can do. |
And sue and be
sued, &c. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
from time to time, and at all times hereafter for ever,
shall have full power and authority to constitute and appoint, in
such manner as they shall think best and most convenient, a principal
and vice-principal of the said college, and professors, with
proper tutors and assistants, for instructing the students and scholars |
Their powers. |
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