| 1803.
CHAP. 74. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
of the said seminary in all their liberal arts and sciences, and
in the ancient and modern tongues and languages, who shall be
severally styled Professors of such arts, sciences, languages or
tongues, as they shall be nominated and appointed for, according
to each particular nomination and appointment; and the said principal,
vice-principal and professors, so constituted and appointed
from time to time, shall be known and distinguished for ever as one
learned body or faculty, by the name of The Principal, Vice-Principal
and Professors, of Baltimore College, in the State of Maryland,
and in that name shall be capable of exercising such powers
and authorities as the trustees of the said college, and their successors,
shall by their ordinances, think necessary to delegate to them,
for the instruction, discipline and government, of the said seminary,
and of all the students, scholars, ministers and servants, belonging
to the same; and the said principal and vice-principal, professors,
students, scholars, and such necessary ministers and servants as
give constant attendance upon the business of the said college, shall
be exempted from all rates and taxes on their salaries, and from
military duties, except in the case of an actual invasion of the state,
and when general military law is declared. |
Yearly value of
estate not to exceed
19000. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the yearly value
of the messuages,
houses, lands, tenements, rents, annuities or other hereditaments
and real estate, of the said college and corporation, exclusive of
the buildings and lot, shall not exceed nine thousand pounds current
money, to be reckoned in silver milled dollars of the United
States at the present rate and weight; and all gifts to the said college
and corporation, after the yearly value of their estates shall
amount to nine thousand pounds as aforesaid, and all bargains and
purchases to be made by the same corporation, which may increase
the yearly value of said estate above or beyond the sum aforesaid,
shall be absolutely void and of none effect. |
Trustees to meet
four times a year. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
and their successors,
shall meet at least four times in every year in stated quarterly
meetings, to be appointed by their own ordinances, and at
such other times as by their said ordinances they may direct, in
order to examine the progress of the students and scholars in literature,
to hear and determine on all complaints and appeals,
and upon all matters touching the discipline of the seminary,
and the good and wholesome execution of their ordinances;
in all which examinations, meetings and determinations, such number
of the said trustees duly met, (provided they be not less than
eleven,) shall be a quorum.
By 1807, ch. 97, seven trustees make a quorum. |
May make ordinances
for government
of college. |
11. BE IT ENACTED, That a majority of the
said trustees
for the time being, when duly assembled at any quarterly or other
meeting, upon due notice given to the whole body, shall have full
power and authority to make fundamental ordinances for the government
of the said college, and the instruction of youth as aforesaid,
and by these ordinances to appoint such a number of their
own body, not less than nine, (a) as they may think proper, to be
a quorum for transacting all general and necessary business of the
said seminary, and making temporary rules for the government of
the same, and also by the same fundamental ordinances to delegate
(a) See note under the preceding section. |
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