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WILLIAM PACA, Esq; Governor.
to the tenor of this act, fix and determine upon some proper place or
situation
on the said western shore for erecting the said college, which determination
shall be by a majority of the whole number of visitors and governors so
met,
such number being in the whole not less than thirteen; and if such majority
shall not, within the time aforesaid, agree upon any one place or situation
for the
said college, it shall be left for the general assembly of this state,
at their first
ensuing session, to determine upon the place for building the said college,
upon
the application of any three or more of the said visitors and governors,
setting
forth, that they could not agree upon the premises. And a complete
list of the
subscriptions for founding the said college shall, at the same time, be
laid before
the general assembly. But if, on or before the first day of June,
seventeen hundred
and eighty-five, there should not be a sufficient number of subscribers
for
electing and completing the whole of the said thirteen visitors and governors
as
aforesaid, the number of visitors and governors that shall be chosen on
or before
the said first day of June, if they are seven or more, may fix and determine
upon
the place for erecting the said college, provided seven of them shall agree
upon
any one place; and if they cannot so agree, they may either leave leave
the same to
the determination of the general assembly as aforesaid, or they may call
to their
advice the six agents above named; and any four of the said agents that
can attend,
with the seven or more visitors and governors so chosen, may either together,
by seven on the whole agreeing, fix and determine upon the place for building
the said college, as they shall judge most convenient and satisfactory
to the
majority of subscribers, and best calculated to secure the success of the
design,
or if they cannot so agree, the determination of the place shall be still
left to the
general assembly, at their first session ensuing the said first day of
June next. In
the mean time, the said agents, and the visitors and governors so chosen,
shall
use all diligence to increase the number of subscriptions. |
1784.
CHAP.
XXXVII. |
VII. And be
it enacted, That if the city of Annapolis should be fixed upon
as a proper place for establishing the said intended college, this general
assembly
give and grant, and upon that condition do hereby give and grant, to the
visitors
and governors of the said college, by the name of " The visitors and governors
of Saint-John's college, in the state of Maryland," and their successors,
all that
four acres within the city of Annapolis, purchased for the use of the public,
and
conveyed on the second day of October, seventeen hundred and forty-four,
by
Stephen Bordley, Esquire, to Thomas Bladen, Esquire, then governor, to
have
and to hold the said four acres of land, with the appurtenances, to the
said visitors
and governors, and their successors, for the only use, benefit and behoof,
of the said college and seminary of universal learning for ever. |
Land granted
on condition,
&c. |
VIII. 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
less 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 less estates, rights or interests,
of or in the same, (excepting the said public land hereby granted) 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. |
Visitors may
purchase land,
&c. |
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