JOSEPH KENT ESQUIRE,. GOVERNOR,

years from the passage of this act; then, and in such case, all
the privileges hereby granted shall ceasei

1827
CHAP: 121

CHAPTER 122.

An act to incorporate the Trustees of the Millington Academy
in Kent county.

Passed March 7,

1828

SECTION 1. &e it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the school or academy at Millington. in Kent
county, shall forever hereafter be under the direction and
management of John Turner, Samuel G. Osborne, Nicholas
Smith, Jesse Knock, and Samuel Cacy, or their successors in.
office, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate, with
perpetual succession, by the name and style of The Trustees
of the Millington Academy, by which name and title the said
trustees, and their successors, shall be competent and capable
at law and in equity, to take to themselves and their success-
ors for the sajd school, any estate in lands, tenements, heredi-
taments, goods, chattels, monies, or other effects, by the gift,
grant, bargain, sale or, bequest, of any person or persons what-

Corporate powers
granted

soever, provided, the same shall not exceed in the whole, the
yearly value of two thousand dollars, and the said lands and
tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, monies, and other
effects, to grant, bargain, sell, demise, and place out on inter-
est, or otherwise dispose of, for the use of the said school, in
such manner as to them, or at least a majority of them, shall
seem most beneficial to the said institution, and to receive the
rents, profits and issues, arising therefrom, and to apply the
same to the proper use and support of said school; and by the
same name to sue and be sued, commence, prosecute and de-
tend, implead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity,
and in all manner of suits and actions whatsoever, and gene-
rally, in and by the same name, to do and perform any act or
acts which any corporation or body politie within this state,
in like cases may or can do and perform; and the said trustees,
and their successors, are hereby authorised to have one com-
mon seal, and the same to break, alter and renew, at pleasure

Proviso

SEC. 2 And be it enacted, That whenever any of the trus-
tees of said school shall die, resign or refuse to act or qualify,
or remove from the county, or shall neglect to attend the
meetings of the said board more than one year, the remaining
trustees, or a majority of them, shall elect by ballot a person
or persons to fill such a vacancy or vacancies

Vacancies

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and their
successors, or a majority of them shall have full power and
authority to make fundamental ordinances for the government
of the school or seminary aforesaid, and the education of
youth, and to appoint such person or persons as they, or a ma-
jority of them, may think proper, to be a teacher or teachers
of the said school.
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Regulations - em-
ploy teachers,