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eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the first day
of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, respec-
tively ; the said amount of forty-five thousand dol-
lars to be appropriated by the trustees to the liqui-
dation of the present indebtedness of the said college
and the purchase of furniture and apparatus for the

said college ; provided, the trustees of the said Mary-
land Agricultural College, shall, on or before the first
day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, make,
by a good and valid title, the state of Maryland equal

Proviso.

joint owner of the property, of every kind and de-
scription, real, personal and mixed, now owned by
the said college.

State to be
made joint
owner of pro-
perty

146. Upon the acceptance of this act, by the
majority of the stockholders, at a meeting to be
called and held in pursuance of the act of incor-
poration, the trustees of said college are hereby
authorized and fully empowered to make, by a good
and valid title, the state of Maryland equal joint
owner in all the property, of every kind and de-
scription, both real, personal and mixed, now owned
by the said Maryland Agricultural College."

Ibid s 2
Trustees
authorized to
make state
joint owner.

147. So much of the third section of the act of
eighteen hundred and fifty-six, chapter ninety-seven,
and the second section of the act of eighteen hundred
and fifty-eight, chapter two hundred and sixty-five,
which requires the board of trustees to consist of
twenty-two trustees, one from each county, and one
from the city of Baltimore, and authorizes the ap-
pointment of a trustee from the District of Colum-
bia, and one from the Eastern Shore, and one from
the Western Shore, for the state at large, is hereby
repealed.

Ibid. s 3
1856, c 97, s 3,
and 1858, c. 265,
s 2, repealed.

148. The board of trustees of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College, shall, on and after the first day of
March, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be composed
of eleven trustees, four of whom shall be members of
the state board of education, to represent the state's
interest as joint owner, and the other seven shall be
elected by a majority of the private stockholders, in

Ibid. s. 4.
Board of trus-
tees of agricul-
tural college.