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WILLIAM PACA, Esq; Governor.
of trustees for the said academy to the number of eighteen, by an election
of appointment of such persons as shall appear to them most proper, from
the
counties of Dorchester, Somerset and Worcester, in this state, Accomack
and
Northampton in the state of VIrginia, and Sussex county in the state of
Delaware;
and that the said trustees and their successors shall and may, at all
times
hereafter, fill up any vacancies that may be, by an election of a person
or persons
from any of the counties aforesaid. |
1784.
CHAP.
LXIV. |
IV. And be it
further enacted, That all persons who may be elected in pursuance
of this act, shall qualify in the same manner, and on such qualification,
have and be invested with all the powers and authority which the present
trustees
have and are invested with by the said act for incorporating the managers
of
Back-creek school. |
Trustees to
qualify, &c. |
V. And be it
further enacted, That no trustee of the said academy shall hereafter
be disqualified on account of removal, unless he shall remove to some place
not within any of the counties aforesaid, and that if any of the present
trustees,
or any that shall hereafter be elected a trustee, shall remove to any place
not
within the counties aforesaid, then it shall and may be lawful for the
said trustees,
at their next half-yearly meeting, to elect and choose some person within
the
counties aforesaid in the room and place of such trustee removed as aforesaid. |
Not disqualified
on account
of removal,
&c. |
VI. And,,
whereas it may be at some times inconvenient for a majority of the
eighteen trustees to meet for transacting the business of the said academy,
Be it
further enacted, That after the
next half-yearly meeting of the said trustees, any
eight or more of the said trustees shall be and are hereby declared to
be a quorum,
and are hereby empowered to meet at the said academy from time to time,
and they so met, may do any act, matter or thing, which a majority of the
eighteen
trustees might do, any thing in any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Eight may
act, &c. |
CHAP. LXV.
An ACT to limit the time for bringing and settling claims against
this state. |
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BE it enacted,
by the general assembly of Maryland, That all claims upon
this state by any citizens thereof, which have arisen before the tenth
day
of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, shall be brought in,
liquidated
and settled, on or before the tenth day of November, seventeen hundred
and eighty-five, and no claim against the state by any citizen thereof,
which did
arise on any account or transaction whatsoever, before the said tenth day
of November,
seventeen hundred and eighty-five, shall, after the said tenth day
of November,
seventeen hundred and eighty-five, be passed or settled by the auditor
or
intendant, or paid by this state, unless the person having such claim is
or shall
/be an infant, non compos mentis, or feme covert, or
be out of this state, in which
cases one year shall be allowed to such persons respectively after the
disability
removed, or the person so being out of the state returns, to bring in and
settle
such claim. |
Time for settling
claims,
&c. |
CHAP. LXVI.
A Supplement to the act for making the river Susquehanna navigable
from the line of this state to tide water. |
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WHEREAS it is necessary to ascertain with precision
the tolls to be received
by the proprietors of the Susquehanna canal, and to adjust
them in such manner as that they may be proportionate to the comparative
value of the commodities which shall be transported through the said
canal: And whereas the said corporation have already made a considerable
progress
in the said undertaking, and are prosecuting the same with great activity,
and this assembly being willing and desirous to give every proper encouragement
to induce them to continue their exertions, from a firm conviction
that the accomplishment
thereof will extend the commerce of the state, and be of general
utility and advantage; |
Preamble. |
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