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An Abridgement of the Laws in Force and Use in Her Majesty's Plantations; 1704
Volume 193, Page 18   View pdf image (33K)
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18            An Abridgment of the Laws of

and Personal Estate whatsoever, of the Gift of any
Person that is willing to bestow them for the same use,
or any other Gifts, Grants, Assignments, Legacies, &c.
with this Intention and Trust, that the said Trustees, or
the major part, or longest Livers of them, shall dispose
of the same, and of the Rents and Profits thereof, only
for defraying the charges in erecting and fitting the 
Edifices of the said intended Schools, as they shall think
most expedient; and after the said Schools shall be
erected and founded, that then the said Trustees shall
apply all such Lands, Tenements, Rents, Goods, Chattels
or Advantages whatsoever, remaining, as hereafter
expressed.
    IV.  The said Trustees shall appropriate out of the said
Revenues, the sum of 120 l. Sterling for the Salary and
Maintenance of the first mentioned Free School, Master,
Usher, and Scribe, and the necessary repairs and improvements
of the same.
    V.  And for the uses and purposes aforesaid, the
Trustees in the Act named, to be incorporated into a
Body Politick, by the name of the Rectors, Governors,
Trustees, and Visitors of the Free-Schools of Maryland,
with power to plead and be impleaded in all Causes and
Actions whatsoever in all Courts and places of Judicature,
and with special Licence to the said Trustees or
any Person or Persons whatsoever, after the said School
or Schools are so erected and founded, to Grant, Assign
and Bequeath Lands, Tenements, &c. to the value of
1500 l. Sterling per an. to the said Trustees and their Successors,
for the uses aforesaid.
    VI.  The said Trustees, Visitors and Governors, in perpetual
Succession, to have full and absolute Power in 
making and ordaining Laws, Orders and Rules, for the 
Good Government of the said Schools, as to them shall
seem most fit and requisite, all which shall be observed
by the Master, Tutors, and Scholars.
    VII.  Provided the said Rules and Orders be no ways
contrary to the Prerogative Royal, the Laws and Statutes
of England, or Maryland, or Canons and Constitutions
of the Church of England.
   
VIII. The said Governors, Visitors, and Trustees,
and their Successors, shall be always 18 men, and not
exceed 20.  To be Elected and Constituted as he after
specified, of which one shall be called Rector of the said



 

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