| 1807.
CHAP. 134. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
cannot exercise that immediate and attentive control over a school
which is necessary for the government and the police thereof, and
as it appears to this general assembly that he object of the said
Morris J. McDonough would be effectually insured by vesting the
said funds in a body politic, expressly created therefor, and by authorising
and empowering the said orphans court to exercise a superintending
power over the said corporation; therefore, |
Orphans court
may appoint trustees,
&c. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the orphans court for Charles county be and they are hereby authorised
and empowered, at their session next after the passage of
this act, or at some future session, to nominate and appoint five
sensible and discreet men, living in the said county, as trustees under
this law, and to cause the said nomination and appointment to
be certified, under their seals of office, and to be deposited in the
clerk's office of said county, to be by him recorded. |
| Trustees incorporated. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
so by the said
court nominated and appointed, and their successors, to be elected
in the manner herein after prescribed, shall be and they are hereby
erected, and established and declared to be, one community, corporation
and body politic, with perpetual succession, in deed and in law, to
all intents and purposes connected with the said institution, by the
name of The Trustees of the McDonough Charity School, by which
name and title they, the said trustees, and their successors, shall
be competent and capable in law and equity to take and hold for
themselves, and their successors, for the use of the said schools, all
the real and personal property which the Morris J. McDonough
devised or bequeathed him the said Richard Barnes, Benjamin
Contee and Robert Fergusson, and the same to grant, bargain,
sell and convey, for the use of the said schools, in such manner and
upon such terms as the orphans court for the time being shall direct,
and to invest the monies arising from the same in such funds
as the said orphans court shall direct. |
Vacancies, how to
be filled. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at all times hereafter,
when any
vacancy or vacancies shall happen in the said community of the
said trustees, by the death, resignation or refusal, of any one or
more of the members thereof, or the wilful neglect of any one
or more of them refusing to attend two succeeding stated meetings
of the board of the trustees, the surviving or remaining trustees, or a
majority of them, shall cause the said death, refusal, resignation
or absence, to be noted on the journals, and with all convenient
speed inform the justices of the orphans court of said county of
the said vacancies, and the orphans court shall proceed to elect
some other sensible and discreet person or persons to be trustee or
trustees to supply the vacancy or vacancies occasioned by the respective
causes aforesaid, and in such manner shall all vacancies be
filled hereafter. |
Treasurer to be
appointed—to
give bond. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
or any three
of them, shall, and they are hereby authorised and empowered,
to appoint a fit and proper person as treasurer of the said community,
and to allow him a reasonable compensation for his trouble
as such; and the said treasurer, and every other treasurer hereafter
to be appointed, shall, before he enters on the duties of his appointment,
enter into bond to the said community in such sum as
the said trustees shall approve of, with good and sufficient securities, |
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