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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Passed March
31, 1853.
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CHAPTER
69.
AN ACT to incorporate the Board of Council of the
Baltimore Collegiate Institute.
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Incorporated.
May hold
lands.
Proviso.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That for the purpose of establishing permanently
a female college of the highest order, the persons
herein named, to wit:—John R. Jarboe, Job
Smith, Robert A. Dobbin, Thomas Kelso, John W.
Richardson, George Sandus, Lewis Cussard, David
Stuart, George P. Gover, John Henderson, George W.
Comer, James Hooper, Jesse Hunt, William Chesnut,
Michael Diffenderfer, James Frazier, James Lucas and
Samuel Worthington, and their successors, who shall
be duly appointed and elected, in the manner hereinafter
directed, be, and they are hereby declared to be a
body politic and corporate, under the name and style
of the board of council of the Baltimore Collegiate Institute,
and by that name they shall be, and are hereby
made able and capable in law to sue and be sued, to
plead and be impleaded in any court, or before any
judge or justice of the peace within the State or elsewhere,
to have and use a common seal, and the same
to alter and amend at pleasure; to have, purchase, receive,
possess and enjoy, for the use of said institute,
any estate in lands, tenements, amenities, goods, chattles,
money or effects, and to grant, devise or dispose of
the same in such manner as they may deem most conducive
to the interests of the institute; Provided, that
the aggregate of the property, so held, shall not exceed
at any time the value of thirty thousand dollars.
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Power to appoint
president.
Vacancy—
how filled.
Power to
make by-laws.
Examining
committee.
To hold annual
commencement.
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SEC. 2. And
be it enacted, That the said board of
council of the Baltimore Collegiate Institute, shall have
power to appoint, from their own body, a president and
such other officers as they may deem necessary for the
purposes of their creation, and in case of the death, resignation,
or refusal to serve, of any of their number,
the remaining members of said board shall elect and
appoint other persons in lieu of those whose places may
have been vacated; said board shall have power to
make such rules, regulations and by laws, as they may
think best for the government of the institute; to appoint
three or more of their number as an examining
committee, to visit and examine the condition of the
institute, who shall make such reports as they may
deem necessary; to order the president to hold annual
commencements at such time and place as they may
see fit, for the purpose of bestowing the highest honors
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