HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 472.

AN ACT to incorporate the Maryland Military
and Naval Academy.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That Benedict John Bur-
gess, James C. M. Johnson and their successors
be and the same are hereby constituted and
created a body corporate and politic by the
name and style of "The Maryland Military
and Naval Academy," and by that name shall
have perpetual succession, and shall be able

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and capable in law to sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded, answer and be answered to
in any Court of Law or Equity in this State,
or before any Judge or Justice thereof, and
shall have and use a common seal, and shall
have power to alter or abolish the said seal at
pleasure, and to do all other acts necessary to
carry out the objects of this corporation; pro-
vided, they are not repugnant to the Constitu-
tion of the State of Maryland and of the United
States of America.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That the
corporation created by this act, shall have
power to establish and perpetuate under the
above corporate name a college and branches
in the town of Oxford, Talbot county, State of
Maryland, for the purpose of the promotion
of education in the State "of Maryland, and
specially for scientific, literary, moral, phy-

Corporation.

sical, military, nautical and astronomical
and manual training of youths, and for the
instruction of youths in naval and steam
and mechanical engineering, and in marine
architecture, navigation, seamanship, marine
enginery and all matters pertaining to the
proper construction, equipment and sailing
of vessels; with power to remove the said
college or any of its branches to any location
in the State which shall seem best adapted to
the purposes of such training and education.
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Establish col-
lege.