THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIEE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

in deed and in law, to all intents and purposes con-

CHAP. 276.

nected with the said institution, by the name or style

of the Battle Creek Academy, by which name and

title they, the said trustees and their successors, shall

be competent and capable, in law and in equity, to take

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and to hold to themselves and their successors, for the

use of the said academy, any estate in any messuages,

lands and tenements, annuities, goods, chattels, monies

or effects by the gift, grant, bargain, sale, conveyance,

devise or bequest of any person or persons whatsoever;

provided, the same do not exceed in the whole, the clear

yearly value of one thousand dollars, and the same

messuages, lands and tenements and other estate real

or personal, to farm-let, and put out on interest for

the use of the said academy, 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 interests of the same, and to apply the

emoluments thereof to the proper use and advancement

of the said academy.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That at all times forever

Vacancies

hereafter, when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen

in the said community of trustees, by the death, resig-

nation or refusal of any one or more of the members

thereof, or by the wilful neglect of any one or more of

them, to attend the meeting of the board of trustees for

the space of one year, the remaining trustees, or a ma-

jority of them, shall with all convenient speed proceed

to elect by ballot, other sensible and discrect person

or persons of the said county, to he the trustee or trus-

tees to supply such vacancy or vacancies, and in like

manner shall all future vacancies be supplied by said

trustees and their successors, or a majority of them, so

as to perpetuate the number of seven persons as trustees

of said academy forever.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and

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their successors, by the name and style aforesaid, shall

be capable in law 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, nature, or form they