THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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tore or form they may be, and all and every other mat-

CHAP. 257.

ter or thing to do therein, in as full and effectual a

manner as any person or persons, bodies politic or cor-

porate within this State, in like causes, may or can do

or perform, and the said trustees, or a majority of

them, shall have full power and authority to have, make

Seal

and use one common seal, with such devices and in-

scriptions as they shall think proper, and therewith to

pass and authenticate the certificates, acts and orders

of the said corporation and the same seal, at their

pleasure to break, alter or renew.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That an election for

Annual elections

trustees shall be held on the first Monday of July,

eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and on the first Mon-

day in every succeeding July thereafter at the said

seminary, which said election shall be by ballot and

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

institution shall be allowed one vote for each and every

scholar, by him or her subscribed at the time of the

said election, and the seven persons having a majority

of votes shall be declared the trustees for the ensuing

year.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and

Employ teachers

their successors, or a majority of them, from time to

time, and at all, times hereafter, shall have full power

and authority to constitute and appoint in such manner

as they shall think best and most convenient, female

teachers and assistants for instructing the scholars and

pupils of said seminary, in such branches of education

as they shall think proper and suitable to be taught

therein, and to make fundamental ordinances or regu-

lations, for the good government of the said seminary,

and the instruction of the scholars as aforesaid, and by

Committee of bu-

their ordinances to appoint such a number of their own

siness

body, not less than four, as they may think proper to

be a committee, for the transacting all general and ne-

cessary business of the said seminary, and making tem-

porary rules for the management thereof, and also by

the said ordinances to delegate to the female teacher or

teachers, such power and authority as they shall think

expedient for the execution of the regulations of the

same, and also by the said ordinances to make such