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LAWS of MARYLAND.
time and place, convenient for the said class of subscribers to meet
and choose
one person as a visitor and governor of the college, agreeably to the
foregoing
fundamental articles, and shall cause six weeks notice of the time
and place of
such election to be given in the Annapolis and Baltimore news-papers,
and shall
attend at the time and place of such election, with a complete list
of the subscribers,
and all persons having subscribed or contributed nine pounds or upwards,
shall be entitled to vote for one person as a visitor and governor,
according
as he may be classed, but shall not be entitled to vote for another
visitor and
governor among any other class or denomination of subscribers, unless
he shall
have made a second subscription of nine pounds or upwards in the said
class, by
and with their approbation; and all persons who may be chosen visitors
and
governors as aforesaid, shall be considered as agents, together with
the agents
above mentioned, and shall have authority to act in conjunction with
them, or
any of them, in carrying the design into execution, as fully as if
they had been
herein and hereby nominated and appointed original agents for that
purpose. |
To give notice
of meeting,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That when thirteen visitors and governors shall be
chosen as aforesaid, the sid agents, or any three or more of them, shall
cause
six weeks notice to be given in the news-papers aforesaid, appointing a
time and
place for the said visitors and governors to meet and take upon them the
discharge
of their trust; and the said thirteen visitors and governors, and such
persons as
may be afterwards added to their number by any new election made as aforesaid,
by subscribers of one thousand pounds current money, within three years
after
the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and
their
successors, duly chosen according 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 Saint-John's
college, in the state of Maryland;" and by the same name they shall have
perpetual
succession. Provided nevertheless, that the whole number of visitors
and
governors of the said college shall never at any time be more than twenty-four,
nor less than thirteen, seven of whom shall always have their usual residence
within sixteen miles of the said college; and provided further, that if
in three
years from the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five,
there shall not be twenty-four visitors and governors chosen as aforesaid
by classes
of subscribers of one thousand pounds current money each class, the other
visitors
and governors, being not less than eleven, duly assembled at any quarterly
visitation, to be held according to the tenor of this act, shall proceed
by election
to fill up the number of twenty-four visitors and governors, as they shall
think
most expedient and convenient. Provided always, that seventeen of
the said
visitors and governors shall be resident on the western shore of this state,
but that
the additional visitors and governors (to make up and perpetuate the number
of
twenty-four) may be chosen from any part of this state, 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
call for subscription
papers,
&c. |
V. And be it
enacted, That the said thirteen or more visitors and governors
shall have full power and authority to call for and receive, out of the
hands of
the treasurer of the western shore, all such subscription papers and monies
as may
have been deposited with him, or may in anywise have come into his hands
and
keeping, for the founding and carrying on the said college, and to appoint
their
own treasurer, who shall have sufficient security for the faithful discharge
of his
trust, and shall thereafter have the care and custody of all subscription
papers,
and sum or sums of money that may be collected thereon, and the receiving
and
keeping of all outstanding subscriptions, and other monies that may be
put into
his hands, for the use of the said college, subject to the order of the
visitors and
governors of the same. |
Fix on a place
for erecting
college, &c. |
VI. And be it
enacted, That the said thirteen or more visitors and governors
shall, at their first meeting after the first day of June next, and before
the first
day of August, if so many visitors and governors should then be chosen
according |
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