1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND,

CHAP. 257

ing and have prayed for an act of incorporation for the

regulation of said seminary and it appearing reasona-

ble that the prayer of said petitioners ought to be

granted : — Therefor,

Trustees named

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of

Maryland, That Robert Wallace, Henry Harding,

Alexander Kilgour, Zachariah F. Johnson, Moses

Luginbeall, Samuel C. Veirs and Arnold T. Windsor,

he, and they are hereby appointed trustees of said

Seminary, to act as such until the first Monday of

July eighteen hundred and thirty six, and the said

trustees and their successors to he elected in the manner

herein after mentioned shall be and they are hereby

erected, established and declared to he one community

corporation and body politic with perpetual succession

in deed and law to all intents and purposes connected

with the said institution by the name and style of the

Corporate powers granted

trustees of the Rockville Female Seminary, by which

name and style they, the said trustees, and their succes-

sors shall be competent and capable in law and equity

to take and to hold to themselves and their successors

for the use of the said Seminary any estate in land and

tenements, goods, chatties or effects, by the gift, grant,

bargain, sale, conveyance, devise or bequest of any

Estate limited

person or persons whatsoever, provided the same do

not exceed in the whole the clear yearly value of three

thousand dollars, and the same lands and tenements

and other estate, real or personal, to grant, bargain,

sell, demise and to farm let and be put out on interest,

or otherwise to dispose of for the use of said semina-

ry in such manner as to them or a majority of them,

shall seem most beneficial to the institution, and to

receive the rents, issues, profits, income and interest

of and to employ the emoluments to the proper use and

advancement of the said seminary.

Legal capacity

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said trustees

and their successors, by the name and style aforesaid,

shall be capable in law or equity, to sue and be sued,

plead and be impleaded, in any court or courts, and

before any judge, justice or justices within this State

and elsewhere, in all manner of suits, complaints, pleas,

causes, matters and demands of whatsoever kind, na-