THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That John S. Stevenson, James B. Horsey,

CHAP. 159.

Trustees incorpo-

William H. Merrell, Jesse Long and Ephraim T.

rated

Townsend, of Worcester county, and their successors,

who shall be duly elected in the manner hereinafter

provided and directed, he and they are hereby incorpo-'

rated and made a body politic forever, by the name and

style of the Trustees of New Town Academy of Wor-

cester county, by which name and style the said trus-

Corporate powers

tees, and heir successors, shall be capable in any court

of law or equity, in this State, to sue and be sued, to

defend and be defended, to answer and be answered, to

hold, whether acquired by purchase, gift or devise,

property, real, personal or mixed, and the same to use,

manage and employ in such manner as they, or a majo-

jority of them, may deem most beneficial to carry into

effect the purposes of the institution, and to sell or dis-

pose of the same, and in fine, to do and perform any

act or acts which any corporation or body politic, with-

in this State, and in like cases, may or can do and per-

form; and the said trustees and their successors are

hereby authorised to have and use one common seal,

and the same to break; alter and renew at pleasure;

provided always, that the property to be held by the

said trustees, in their corporate capacity, shall not ex-

ceed the annual value of one thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That whenever any of

Case of vacancy

the said trustees shall die, resign or refuse to act or

qualify, or shall cease to reside in Worcester county,

the remaining trustees, or any two of them, shall by

public notice appoint a day, not less than fifteen days

thereafter, for the election of another trustee to fill E

Election

such vacancy, which election shall be by ballot, and

conducted as follows, to wit:— every subscriber to said

institution shall be entitled to one vote for every five

dollars by him or her subscribed and paid, and the per-

son having a majority of votes, shall be declared the

trustee to fill such vacancy; Provided, that ho person

but a male subscriber shall be a trustee; and the trus-

tees shall record in a book, provided for that purpose,

the names of all persons who shall subscribe to said in-

stitution, and the amount subscribed by each; and the

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