GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

cise all the powers of a corporate body necessary for the
purposes contemplated by this act, and affairs of the said
corporation shall be conducted, and the powers thereof ex-
ercised by three trustees to be chosen by, and from among
the subscribers aforesaid, hereby incorporated, at a public
meeting to be held at. the said school house, once in every
three years, on the first Monday in August, or in thirty
days thereafter, by giving at least fifteen days previous no-
tice, stuck up in some public places in the neighborhood of
said school house; and the said Charles Williar, Jacob Wil-
liar and Peter McClain, shall be, and they are hereby ap-
pointed and declared the trustees of the said corporation,
until the election shall be made as herein provided; and the
trustees herein appointed, and who shall hereafter be elected
shall be entitled to hold their office until a new election shall

CHAP. 109.

Present trustees.

be made, and they shall have power to fill all vacancies
which shall occur in their own body by death, resignation
or removal out of the county, until the election to be held
at the end of each term of three years (or a new election)
and to take and use all proper legal means for the improve-
ment, preservation and repairs of said school house; and if
found necessary for the erecting of a new or additional
school house, and also for the improvement of the lot of
land conveyed in trust as aforesaid, and for the collection,
safe keeping and application of all money subscribed for

Vacancies.

that purpose; and it shall be the duty of the said trustees to
keep or cause to be kept, a book for the use and as the pro-
perly of the said corporation, in which shall be entered all
the subscriptions to the use of the said corporate objects,
and other proceedings of the said corporation, which entries
of subscription shall be signed by each respective subscriber;
and which, with proof of payment,shall he evidence of a right
to vote as a member of the corporation,and the proceedings of
the trustees, and all other matters, authorised by this act, may
be regulated by a majority of the members assembled at any
of the aforesaid meetings, and notice of such meetings shall

Books — accounts —
subscription.

be given in the manner hereinbefore specified, and the first
meeting for electing trustees to be held the first Monday of
August next.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the property conveyed in

Notice.

trust, and the estate and interest therein vested in the trustees
above named, is hereby vested in the corporation hereby
enacted; and the said corporation is hereby empowered to
receive and to hold any further estate and quantity of lands,
not exceeding in the whole fifty acres, and subscriptions or
donations for the purposes expressed in this act, not ex-
ceeding in value five hundred dollars per annum.
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Property vested.