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CHAP.
VIII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
up the seat and place of such deceased, removed, or absenting member,
having
special regard that, in the room of a deceased, removed, or absenting visitor
and
governor from any particular county, another of the same county be always
chosen
in his room and stead. |
When the
college is to
be incorporated,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That when ten visitors and governors of the said intended
college shall be chosen as aforesaid, in addition to the visitors of Kent
county school for the time being, and when the said seventeen visitors
and governors
shall, by an instrument of writing under their hands to the general assembly
of this state directed and duly delivered, declare that they are willing
and desirous
to take upon them and to discharge the trust of visitors and governors
of the said
intended college, and that an estate, or sum and sums of money not less
than five
thousand pounds current money, or the just value thereof (including the
estate of
the said Kent county school) is in their hands, or so secured to be paid
to them,
that they will answer for the value thereof, and the application of the
same towards
founding, endowing and supporting, the said intended college, according
to their best judgment and the tenor of this act, provided always, that
such instrument
of writing be lodged with the general assembly, as aforesaid, within five
years after the passing of this act; that then and in such case the said
seventeen
visitors and governors, and such other person and persons as they shall
choose to
make up and perpetuate the number of twenty-four, agreeable to the tenor
hereof,
shall be, and are hereby declared to be, one community, corporation and
body
politic, to have continuance for ever, by the name of the visitors and
governors
of Washington college, in the state of Maryland, in honourable and perpetual
memory of his Excellency General Washington, the illustrious and virtuous
commander
in chief of the armies of the United States, and by the name they
shall have perpetual succession; provided nevertheless, that seventeen
of the said
visitors and governors shall always be residents on the eastern shore of
this state,
but that the seven additional visitors and governors (to make up and perpetuate
the number of twenty-four) may be chosen from this or any part of the adjacent
states, if they are such persons as can reasonable undertake to attend
the quarterly
visitations, and are thought capable, by their particular learning, weight
and
character, to advance the interest and reputation of the said seminary. |
Visitors may
purchase
land, &c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the said visitors and governors, 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 lesser estate
or estates,
any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, pensions, or other hereditaments,
within
this state, by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, alienation, enfeofment,
release, confirmation
or devise, 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 lesser estates, rights or interests, of or in the
same (excepting
the estate of the said Kent county school) 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, sold or bequeathed, to them, by any person or persons,
bodies politic or corporate, capable to make a gift, sale or bequest thereof,
and
employ the same towards erecting, setting up and 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 in church and state; and youth of all
religious
denominations and persuasions shall be freely and liberally admitted to
equal privileges
and advantages of education, and to all the literary honours of the college,
according to their merit, and the standing rules of the seminary, without
requiring
or enforcing any religious or civil test whatsoever upon any student, scholar
or member, of the said college, other than such oath of fidelity to the
state as the
laws thereof may require of the visitors, governors, masters, professors
and teachers,
in schools and seminaries of learning in general; nor shall and preference
be |
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