1827.

LAWS OF MARYLAND,

CHAP. 119

politic or corporate, capable to make the same, and such lands,
tenements, rents, annuities, pensions or other hereditaments
or any less estates, rights or interests of or in the same, at
their pleasure, to grant, alien, sell and transfer, in such man-
ner and form as they shall think meet and convenient for the
furtherance of the said college, and also that they may take
and receive any sum or sums of money, and any kind, manner
or portion of goods and chattels, that shall be given or sold
to them by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate,
capable to make a gift or sale thereof, and employ the same
towards maintaining the said college, in such manner as they
shall judge most necessary and con venient for the instruction,
improvement and education of youth in the vernacular and
learned languages, and generally in any kind of literature, arts
and sciences which they shall think proper to be taught, for
training up good, useful and accomplished men, for the ser-

Legal capacity

vice of their country,
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the trustees and their suc-
cessors shall he able in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded, in any court or courts, before any judge, judges
or justices within this state and elsewhere, in all and all man-
ner of suits, complaints, pleas, causes, matters and demands
of whatsoever kind, nature or form they be, and all and every
other matter and thing therein to do, in as full and effectual a
manner as any other person or persons, bodies politic or cor-
porate within this state, or any of the United States of Ame-
rica, in like cases may or can do

Appoint principals

and professors

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and their
successors from time to time, and at all times hereafter forever,
shall have full power and authority to constitute and appoint in,
such manner us they shall think best and most convenient, a
Principal and Vice Principal of the said college, and Professors,
with proper tutors and assistants for instructing the students
and scholars of the said seminary in all the liberal arts and
sciences, and in the ancient and modern tongues and lan-
guages, who shall be severally styled Professors of such arts,
sciences, languages or tongues as they shall be nominated and
appointed for, according to each particular nomination and
appointment, and the said principal, vice principal and profes-
sors so constituted and appointed from time to time, shall be
known and distinguished forever as one learned body or fa-

Faculty-title

culty, by the name pf the Principal, Vice Principal and Profes-
sors of the Maryland College in the town of Belle Air, in the
state of Maryland, and in that name shall be capable of exer-

Their powers

eising such powers and authorities as the trustees of the said
college, and their successors shall by their ordinances, think
necessary to delegate to them for the instruction, discipline
and government of the said seminary; and of all the students,
scholars, ministers and servants belonging to the same, and
the said principal, vice principal, professors, students, scholars
and such necessary ministers and servants as give constant

Exempt from tax
and military service

attendance upon the business of the said college, shall be ex-
empted from all rates and taxes on their salaries, and from