1827

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP, 161	manner, and on the most approved plan for the convenient accommodation and instruction of the pupils to be admitted therein; and said trustees and their successors are hereby authorised and empowered to hold and occupy the same, togethrr with any other real or personal property that may be purchased or received by them for the use of this insti- tution.
Trustees appoint 12 visitors and gen- eral superintend- ants	SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That that the trustees aforesaid shall annually nominate and appoint a board of twelve or more visitors and examiners whose duty it shall be to attend all public examinations of the students or cadets, and who shall further have free Access at all times to the institution; and said trustees and their successors shall also appoint, on such terms and conditions as they shall think fit, one chief or General Superintendant to preside over and govern the insti- tution, and who shall be authorised and empowered to appoint
He appoints pro- fessors, &c.	and remove at his pleasure all professors, teachers, assistants and other officers and servants that may in his opinion be re- quisite to attend on any student or students, cadet or cadets in said academy, and to instruct them as he, under the direc- tion of the said visitors and examiners, may direct, in all or any oi the liberal arts and sciences, including civil engineer- ing and such branches of education as are most particularly connected with agriculture, commerce, the mechanic arts and military science, and said chief or general superintendant, with the professors appointed by him, shall be known and
Faculty	distinguished as one learned body or faculty, by the name of the Superintendant General and Professors of the 'Pikesville Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, and be authorised to form such system of rules and regulations as they may
Their powers	judge to be essential and necessary to promote the health and increase the physical as well as mental powers of their pupils, and to secure at the same time order and good government in the institution.
General meetings accounts.	SEC. 5 And be it enacted. That general meetings of the stockholders may be convened at any time at the institution or in the city or vicinity of Baltimore, when the trustees for the time being may think fit or deem it necessary; or general meetings may be called at any time by any nnmber of stock- holders, holding not less than one half of the stock of the institution, who may agree to convene them by public notice to be given for two weeks at least in two or more of the news- papers published in the city of Baltimore, and at every gener- al reeling of the stockholders convened as herein authorised, the trustees, superintendant general and professors for the time being, shall lay before them a general account of all the concerns of the institution, and make known to them the situ- ation thereof in every particular required, and at any such general meeting of the stockholders a majority of the shares of stock in the institution being represented thereat, either in person or by proxy, a new election of trustees, if required by any three stockholders, may be gone into by ballot, and the
Election of trus- tees	election of any trustee or board of trustees so made by the