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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
one common and public seal, and likewise one privy seal, with such
devices and inscriptions as they shall think proper, and to ascertain,
fix and regulate, the uses of both seals by their own laws,
and the same seals, or either of them, to change, break, alter and
renew, at their pleasure. |
1807.
CHAP. 53. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said regents
shall have full
power and authority to appoint a president of the said college, who
shall preside at their meetings, and perform such other duties as
may be assigned to him, and in his absence to appoint a vice-president,
which latter shall always be one of their own body. |
And appoint a
president, &c. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said regents
shall from time
to time, and at all times hereafter for ever, have full power and
authority to constitute and appoint, in such manner as they shall
think best and most convenient, professors of the different branches
of medicine, for instructing the students of said college by regular
lectures upon every part of that science, who shall be severally
styled Professors of such branch as they shall be nominated and appointed
for, according to each particular nomination and appointment;
and also to constitute and appoint, in like manner, lectures
upon the sciences subservient to, or connected with, medicine, who
shall be severally styled Lectures on such sciences as they shall
be
appointed for; and the said professors and lecturers, 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 Medical
Faculty of the College of Medicine of Maryland, and in that
name shall be capable of choosing their own dean of faculty, and
of exercising such powers and authorities as the regents 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 institution, and of all students, officers and servants,
belonging to the same; Provided, that nothing be done in
virtue of this act contrary to the constitution and laws of this state,
or to the constitution and laws of the United States. |
Also professors
of different
branches of medicine,
and lecturers
upon the sciences
connected therewith.
Proviso. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said regents,
and their successors,
shall meet at least once a year in stated annual 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 into
all matters touching the discipline of the institution, and the
good and wholesome execution of their ordinances; and the said
regents, when duly assembled, shall have full power and authority
to make their own rules of proceeding, and to make fundamental
ordinances for the government and discipline of the said college,
and to appoint the necessary officers of the same, in all which meetings
a majority of the whole number of regents shall be a quorum
to do any business except vacate the seat of a president, professor
or lecturer, for which purpose the consent of two thirds of the
whole number of regents shall be necessary. |
To meet at least
once a year, &c. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the medical faculty
of the said
college shall hold one term in each year, which shall commence on
the first Monday in November in every year, and shall continue
not less than four, nor more than six months, as may be regulated
by the ordinances of the college, within which period all the lectures
to be delivered in the said college shall be given, except the
lectures on botany, and such other lectures as the regents shall
judge will be delivered with more advantage at a different season. |
One term to be
held in each year. |
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