PRIVATE ACTS. 1303

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That a a majority of said
Trustees for the time being, when duly assembled at any yearly
or other meeting, upon due notice given to the whole body,
shall have full power and authority to make fundamental ordi-
nances for the government of said College and instruction of
the youth aforesaid, and by their ordinances to appoint such a
number of their own body, not less than a majority in number
of said trustees, as they may think proper to be a quorum, for
transacting all general and necessary business for said College,
and making temporary rules for the government of the same,
and also by the same fundamental ordinances to delegate the
President and Professors such powers and authorities as they
may think best for the standing government of the said College
and for the execution of the ordinances and rules of the same;
provided always that they be not repugnant to the form of gov-
ernment or any laws of this State.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation
shall be able in law to sue and to be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded in any Court or Courts, before any Judge, Justices or
Judges within this State and elsewhere, in all and all manner
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
corporate within this State, or elsewhere in the United States
of America, in like case, may or can do.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees shall
be increased from five to nine Trustees, who shall have the
qualifications prescribed in the original certificate of incorpo-
ration of said corporation; but said increase is not to become
effective until the next annual meeting of the stockholders of
said corporation, when nine Trustees shall be elected by the
stockholders, and of these nine Trustees three shall be elected
to serve for one year; three shall be elected to serve for two
years, and three shall be elected for three years; and thereafter
at said annual meeting three Trustees shall be annually elected
to serve for three years. Whenever any of the Trustees named
or chosen shall die, resign, decline serving or be unable to serve,
a majority of the Trustees then being shall elect a Trustee to
fill the unexpired term of the said trustee so in any way occa-
sioning said vacancy. '

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SEC. 11. And be it further enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the said corporation shall have the power to
take and hold by donation, gift, grant, devise or bequest or
otherwise any property real, personal or mixed, for the pur-
pose of said corporation; and to receive endowments; and to