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WHEREAS, The act of eighteen hundred and
forty-five, chapter two hundred and forty-five, in-
corporating Cornelius Coombs, Caleb M. Jones,
William Coad, J. W. Bennett and others, with
their successors, as a body politic and corporate,
under the name, style and title of the Trustees of
St. Mary's Female Seminary, was repealed by an
act entitled, An act to preserve the existence of
St. Mary's Female Seminary, passed in eighteen
hundred and fifty-eight, chapter one hundred and
one; and whereas, by said act, George W. Mor-
gan, John M. Broome and Benjamin Tippett, of
St. Mary's county, were appointed a Board of
Commissioners for the purpose of reorganizing the
aforesaid St. Mary's Female Seminary, with pow-
ers to increase said Board to the number of four-
teen; and whereas, in pursuance of the aforesaid
act, said Board of Commissioners did organize
said institution, and in consequence of the diffi-
culties incident to the same and the loss of revenue
arising from lotteries, the Trustees have incurred
a debt for which they have made themselves indi-
vidually responsible; and whereas, there are re-
pairs now required for the preservation of the
property; and whereas, the sale of the said Female
Seminary and the appropriation of the proceeds
thereof to any other purposes than that of female
education, upon any other site than the site of old
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