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WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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Academy or School; and whereas the same was
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built in Manchester, now Carroll county, Maryland,
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and has become a local institution; and whereas
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the number of trustees provided for in the original
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act have been found cumbersome for the successful
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carrying out of the requirements of said act; and
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Preamble.
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whereas doubts may arise whether the rights and
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powers of said academy, by virtue of said act of
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Assembly, as a corporation, has not been forfeited
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by reason of the failure of the present board of trus-
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tees to meet the requirements of said charter, there-
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fore —
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
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bly of Maryland, That the act entitled "An to in-
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corporate certain trustees therein named to build
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an academy or school-house in or near Manchester,
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Act revived.
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in Baltimore county," to hold and govern the same
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in fact and in law to all intents and purposes con-
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nected with said institution, passed at the January
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session, eighteen hundred and twenty eight, chapter
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one hundred, be and is hereby revived, and that the
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same institution is hereby revived and continued,
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and that Jacob Campbell, George Everhart the
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third, George Shower, John Everhart, Dr. Theodore
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A. Shower, John H. Lammotte, David H. Hoffacker,
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Emanuel Shaffee, Henry Reagle, George Burns
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and Adam Shower, be and they are hereby declared
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Legal trustees.
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to be the legal trustees of said academy, and shall
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have all the privileges of the aforesaid act as if the
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same had not been forfeited and lost.
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SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the name and
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style of the corporation established by the first sec-
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tion of the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-
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eight, chapter one hundred, be and the same is hereby
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altered from that of the Trustees of the " Manches-
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Name altered.
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ter United Academy of Baltimore county " to that
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of the Trustees of the Manchester Academy of Car-
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roll county, Maryland, and by the latter of said
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names shall hereafter be known and called, and that
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the words " with perpetual succession " be stricken
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out.
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SEO. 3. Be it enacted, That from and after the
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passage of this act, the number of trustees provided
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Trustees re-
duced to five.
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in the original act, to which this is amendatory, be
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and the same are reduced in number to five, who
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